Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Sacred trees (Himorogi) can be found at Shinto shrines. These age-old trees are beautiful specimens of nature’s strength and longevity and add an extra level of serenity to their shrines. Sacred tree charges energy from land which is purified, a small part of the bottom part of the painting is left blank deliberately, this is the artist's intent to show that the land is pure, without any impurity and the nature is in harmony with us.
Early Japanese culture did not have the notion of anthropomorphic deities, and simply felt the presence of nature's spirits and its phenomena (mountains, forests, rain, wind, and so on..) which are still their purpose today.
Shoko Okumura...
Category
2010s Contemporary Hong Kong - Mixed Media
MaterialsPaper, Mixed Media, Pigment