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 It happened in a September, a day like any other. |
 Dimitri acts as if nothing has happened, Alone in the ring on and on, everyday he juggles into the air. |
 She runs under the bridge along the railway.  On this same night it began to snow again. |
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I have, in front of me, a brush-stroked specimen of calligraphy by Sarah Moon.
The single sumi-ink word represented in the calligraphic works is "  ". Sarah did the calligraphy the year before last when she visited Japan on the occasion of her one-person show, "Fantasmagoria – Sarah Moon Exhibition" held at Kahitsukan.During her stay in Japan, Sarah, together with her husband, Robert Delpire, came to my home and marveled at all sorts of brushes, sumi-ink sticks, inkstones and papers in my collections. She showed particular interest in Japanese-style papers. She was also fascinated by the meanings and the forms of Chinise characters, and in her deep appreciation of Japanese culture, she ventured to tackle the art of Japanese-style calligraphy. When I asked her what her favorite word was, Sarah instantly replied that it was "  " and that is the word she wrote down in Chinese character.In the summer of 2002, I was invited to Sarah's house in Paris and was given an opportunity to see her latest moving image story, "CIRCUS". A passionate admirer of Sarah’s moving image works ever since I saw her "Cartier-Bresson – Question Mark", I soon developed an uncontrollable urge to create a book consisting of Sarah's photographs, sentences and moving images. After a long series of trials and errors, I have finally been able to bring into the world a limited edition book "CIRCUS" consisting of original prints of Sarah's photographs, handcrafted Japanese-style papers graced with her brush works and a DVD of her moving images. And to the collections of Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, we have been able to add 34 photographic works of Sarah’s, her directly-written sentences rich in poetry and her moving images. "To be more creative is to get closer to childhood", says Sarah. The world of fairy tales where everybody once gave free rein to his or her imagination on the basis of the fairy tales he or she had been read to... It is the world of momentary fantasy in which all sorts of senses – gaiety, nostalgia, insecurity and sorrow – are jumbled together in complex layers. Although based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl", "CIRCUS", which can best be described as a contemporary fairy tale in moving images pregnant with deep insight and highly refined sense of beauty, actually follows its own unique course. When finished, the story, though a fiction, leaves the viewers with the train of singular spritual reverberations. Sarah Moon's tale, with all its ephemeral scenes, begins... |
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