{"id":6486,"date":"2016-10-06T21:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jp.crsny.org\/index.php\/event\/exhibition-whispering-lights-ae_art-by-erika-mizukami\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:14:07","slug":"exhibition-whispering-lights-ae_art-by-erika-mizukami","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jp.crsny.org\/index.php\/event\/exhibition-whispering-lights-ae_art-by-erika-mizukami\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: Whispering Lights \u2014\u00a0Art by Erika Mizukami"},"content":{"rendered":"

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is pleased to announce\u00a0“Whispering Lights,” an exhibition of art work by\u00a0Erika Mizukami<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Finding inspiration in\u00a0light, she began making art on her own and\u00a0is\u00a0self-taught. So far, she has made more than 100 works in this way. We selected about 10 works from all, and will show them at CRS.\u00a0The works represented here are colorful oil pastels in complex patterns, created by\u00a0scratching, reminiscent of mandalas. Their purpose is to invite unity and harmony into the mind and also a sense of playfulness.<\/p>\n

An Opening Reception with the artist will take place on Saturday, July 11, 2015\u00a0from 6 \u2013 8\u00a0pm.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Pianist\u00a0Maurizio Najt will perform<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition will remain on display through August 17, 2015.<\/p>\n

About the Artist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in New York and raised in Tokyo,\u00a0Erika Mizukami has been drawing since 2010.<\/p>\n

After experiencing self-hypnosis and guided meditation several years ago, Erika started experiencing beautiful visions every night as she was lying down. Images were like the ones in a kaleidoscope,\u00a0vast, spacious, unlimited, smooth, a continuation of simple motifs within a slow movement. She was fully aware of her\u00a0surroundings, never tired from\u00a0sleepless nights, leaving her with a clear mind and emotional detachment.<\/p>\n

Fully connected with the presence of Love, Freedom, and Stillness, Erika explored the idea of capturing these images and wanted to share with others not only the images but the senses of healing she had in the experience. Drawing them on a sketchbook with a pencil was not an accurate way of sharing them.<\/p>\n

A year after, she met a Mandala artist who recommended to her a book on how to draw a mandala. The instructions of drawing were so complicated for Erika, so she placed the mandala interactions away and started playing with a compass to draw one simple circle in many ways. She loved it! However it was not quite yet able to reflect her visions.<\/p>\n

During the same year Erika took a course on Metaphysical Science. She had an assignment of expressing emotions in art. She picked oil pastels to do the project. It struck her! Since then she uses oil pastels and compass to draw the images. “When I scratched off the line, the color appears underneath of black coated paper. It’s like the light appears in the dark.”<\/p>\n

Even though her artwork does\u00a0not exactly mirror the images she sees in her mind, “What I have experienced with drawing these\u00a0particular artworks is\u00a0far beyond my imagination. I just took inspired action every each moment to create shape and even choosing color.\u00e2\u20ac_<\/p>\n

These artworks are teaching and guiding Erika in so many different aspects of understanding\u00a0meaning in life and leading her to the original pure essence. When she completes\u00a0a piece, she looks\u00a0at it with completely detachment, neither like nor dislike, leaving her for a couple of days with an empty mind, no sense of judgment but deep love and joy!<\/p>\n

Relationship with all my creation is just\u00a0being a witness of a process of unfolding flowers. When you see beauty in nature you go speechless, with no words to express, a\u00a0kind of shock, all thoughts and emotions become powerless and fade a way and I replace them with total acceptance, being fully connected with something beyond my five senses<\/p>\n

Realizing that her art invites the viewers to the experience of reuniting with the universe as a whole, Erika has been creating her artworks for\u00a0people across any boundaries.<\/p>\n

“Creativity enriches my life.\u00a0I love to inspire people and let them know how life is enjoyable just by taking a little time with the creativity we are all born with!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Artist Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

The process of creating my work is one of returning myself\u00a0back to the original nothingness. Choosing motifs, colors, and patters for each little step of drawing in a long, simple repetition is made possible when I perceive a subtle and quiet inspiration coming from within. In drawing, I let self-talk bubble\u00a0up to consciousness from the innermost realm within, and gently liberate each of them into the light.<\/p>\n

Once the work is finished, I realize that I have been experiencing the authentic nothingness. Which means no words, no critiques, no voices, and no emotions emerge from my work toward me when seeing it for a couple of days after the completion. It seems as if a physical relationship between \u201cme\u00e2\u20ac_the creator and my work the created, which had been supporting the process of my creation, reveals its real nature: \u00a0the original nothingness.<\/p>\n

After the experience of nothingness, my consciousness gradually returns to the world of words and emotions where my work visually expresses its beauty.<\/p>\n

Every time I finish my work, I deeply feel that my creative process strengthens the mutual trust between my Self and what\u2019s beyond my Self, namely divinity. Not only my finished work but every little piece of the work, every event I went through in the process of creating it, every color, and every figure outside the work now tell me the truth of the universe in a totally different way. The entire universe, including my work and myself, plays a role as\u00a0catalyst to enrich the bond, or a mutual trust, between me and what leads me to create my works. This bond, the trust, is an experience of oneness between my singularity and the entire universe. My works are a series of invitations to this oneness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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