What is depicted here takes the shape of my own mother and grandmother.

But at the same time, it is connected to the universal motherly presence.

My mother, sitting on the shore, before giving birth to me, my grandmother, still working in the fields even in her later years.

The cats and horses that lived in their home, the flowers that bloom in the land of Tohoku where they lived.

The circle with the leaf pattern at the top of the painting is the crest of my mother’s side of the family, and it is called Kyumaizasa (Nine Bamboo Leaves).

The pattern within the square is called a Yantra, a sacred symbol said to influence space.

From deep within the space, the DNA that has continued from ancient times streams towards us.