Masako Miyazaki Photography

Event: Gathering at the Green Hole Saturday, March 28 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Guest: Sachiko Sumi Performance beginning at 3:00 PM

Exposition : Green Hole - Masako Miyazaki

Venue Maison Antoine-Beaudry 14678 Rue Notre-Dame Est Montréal, Québec H1A 1W1

Within the Green Hole, something quietly awakens, and a fleeting sip of spring gently unfolds.

Someone I’ve grown distant from sometimes appears in my dreams.

Even if the pieces of a puzzle drift apart,

I wonder if they’re still connected somewhere in my subconscious.

疎遠になった誰かが

夢に出てくることがある

パズルのピースは

離れても

私の無意識の中では

私のささやかな夏の幸せ。

ベランダに巣を作った雀の白いお腹を見ること。腐る直前の真っ赤なケベック産のいちご。近所のサッカー場で見る打ち上げ花火。Jazz のピアノとアフリカンフェスティバル。

My modest summer joys:

Spring in Montreal

On my balcony— two birds flutter, chirping as gathering, dried leaves in beaks, from the kinmokusei I planted last year.

They’re building— a nest, a new beginning.

Bright light, dazzling, warm.

When I return from a long nap, will the tree next door be full— of green?

モントリオールの春

私のベランダで

二匹の鳥が

囀り集まる

昨年植えた金木犀

枯れ草は

新しい巣の建設に

明るく眩しくさす光

長い昼寝から戻ったら

I was invited by the Consul General to attend the Emperor’s Birthday celebration and had the honor of participating. I was impressed by the Consul General’s speech, delivered fluently in Quebecois, which captivated the guests. I was also surprised to learn that Japan is Quebec's fourth-largest trading partner.

先日、日本総領様より天皇陛誕生日会にご招待頂き、出席しました。

Tomorrow, October 26th, at 3 PM, there will be an opening for my exhibition at the bookstore that sells my books. 明日10月26日の15時に私の本を扱っていただいている本屋さんで展示のオープニングがあります。

This series, 'The Other Side,' was my first exhibition when I was a photography student in Tokyo. Since I didn’t have a darkroom, I turned my room into one back then. I placed a enlarger next to my bed and had a friend help me block the window with boards to create a darkroom.

Now, ten years after moving to Canada, I have begun working on a continuation of this series again.

I walk with uncertainty, stopping, and then collecting myself to walk again. I sincerely thank everyone supporting me, especially @unlivreasoimtl.

私が東京の写真学生だった時、初めて展示をしたシリーズ　The Other Side. 暗室はなかったので、自分の部屋を暗室にしたあの頃。 ベットの隣に引き伸ばし機を置いて、友人に板で部屋の窓を塞いでもらって暗室を作った。 カナダに引っ越して10年たった今、再度、このシリーズの続きを作り始めています。

Creation always demands sacrifice. It's important to recognize and take responsibility for those sacrifices to truly feel alive. When you genuinely feel you've lived, that feeling is unshakeable. The clearer this understanding becomes, the less concerned you are with society's judgments. By Junji Hayao

河合隼雄さんより -創造には犠牲がつきもの。 その犠牲の責任者としての自覚を持って、私が生きたと言えることが必要。 私が生きた、と実感を持った時、それはいつ誰によっても奪われることのないもの。 それが明確になるほど、一般的な社会評価はそれほど気にならなくなる。

Yesterday, I finished the installation for the upcoming show at Dazibao. It went quickly and smoothly as people at Dazibao are professionals. I am very excited about this group show because not only the venue is a center of contemporary in Montreal but also other artists in this show are renown international artists. The gallery's walls were re-painted nicely gray. They fit my black and white photographs! I hope to see you there on April 18th!

It has been 12 years since my photo book "The Other Side" was published in Japan. Recently, I hear the nice news that this book was purchased in Germany or Vancouver, somewhere far from the place where I live. When I was making this series, I wanted to be "no one" in " no where" . The following is the article Fumimasa Hosokawa wrote on his instagram. I simply loved it.

細川文昌さんのThe Other Sideへ記事です。

A collection of photographs of a "place" that is not anywhere and everywhere. The place is not a specific "the," nor is it "a" anywhere. I think it is a visualization using photographs about an area to which no article can give meaning. どこでもないどこかの、どこにでもある「場所」の写真集。その場所は特定の「The」ではなく、どこにでもある「a」でもない。冠詞が意味を与えられない領域について写真を使って視覚化しているのだと思う

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