Mayuko Ogawa, art, photography, kaleidoscope, creativity, psychology, art therapy, childhood, memory bank, dream, lucid dream, subconscious, healing, therapy, visual journal, the time capsule - Mayuko Ogawa's Art & Photography Portfolio

`Talking to, the water pond`

25th April 2017, Japan

Staring to the water pond,

where I could see as a familiar place of my daily lives,

there is this inner communication with myself,

by reflecting upon to the water surface

as my inner flow of emotions & thoughts.

`Between the eyelids`

26th April 2017, Japan

Lying down on the grass field in the middle of

the day, when the sun shining through softly,

you would feel the warmness of the sun,

between the eyelids, then, you simply know,

you are always protected.

`Cliche`

6th August 2017, Japan

There is always something more to our verbal interactions,

sort of beyond, closer to the telepathy, or insights,

when you could guess, what the other person would say,

then you feel connected with.

`The voice`

6th June 2017, Japan

We always know, simply know,

when and how we listen to ourselves,

the hidden little voices that speak to us.

`The direction`

6th June 2017, Japan

Where to go, how to go,

why we are heading to,

without any explanations, or reasonings,

there is this inner drives that says,

simply `YES`

`Passing through the key hole`

16th June 2017, Japan

Something that gets us,

sort of self-realisation, that you might call it,

or, sort of discovery of the edges,

the edges of your comfort zone,

always from the inner well.

`Moon-walker, shape of you`

18th June 2017, Japan

The desire, or the hope that,

one day, I will be, you will be,

one day will come to us,

how to define the shape of

`You`, or `I`

`I know, you know - actually I don`t know anything`

22nd June 2017, Japan

We thought of, we know `something`,

we could touch it, then we name it,

but how far to the end,

we could tell, we know?

`It can begin anywhere`

10th July 2017, Japan

There is no `ending`,

unless we decide it to be.

Each second,

we could simply, `begin`

`Onion in a dance`

4th July 2017, Japan

`Be born with` means, we unconsciously store many

`informations`, that might be called as `experiences`,

`upbringings`, or `cultural backgrounds`.

Layers by layers.

By interacting with the outer circumstances, we know it was

simply one element of `influences` that was on our shoulders,

but not as a key core of who you truly are.

"The Chalice Well and the Prayer" - Kaleidoscope sculpture

"An iceberg is an analogy that describes the connection between

the conscious and the subconscious mind - with a small, visible

part above the surface and a huge part below. What interested me

is the subconscious understanding of space. We all have a sort of

a sensor, when we enter to the first unknown place, and this

sensor’s telling us something, something that is in the essence of

air, even though we don’t even have any ‘knowledge’ associated

with the particular space.”

Without knowing, he sit down on the stone bench nearby and

started to pray, close his eyes, started to pray, in front of the

undecorated well. It was deserted, nobody else apart from me and

my son, in the early morning with misty weather, quiet, totally

quiet, …. the little private garden it was, it was as if….

I started to imagine, started to imagine of what it has been taking

place here, how the history has been here in this right place.

He - 7 years old.

Autumn 2012, the Chalice Well, Grastonbury, UK.

This conceptual kaleidoscope sculpture was exhibited at the Moscow contemporary art of the

Biennale in 2013.

`Clear As Ever?`

In 2012, Moscow

A concept of the interactive sculpture, exploring relationships

between Water and Us, Humans

Water is the key element of life. We are made of water. It feeds and

nurtures us. On the deeper level yet, water symbolises flow, containing and carrying the information on conscious and unconscious levels, transferring energy from one being to another.

It does reflect all: not only surroundings, like a surface of a pond, but the very essence of things and the essence of human beings.

Humankind is like an ocean. As an ocean is made up of myriad

drops, so the human race is made of us, individual humans. Drops

of water and humans are similar to each other - but yet so different , unique and individual. There is no same human being on this planet as there is no same drop in the ocean.

In my installation I`do like to ponder on the ideas of uniqueness and reflection, make people think

about this link between water and us, ask themselves questions.

How far we can see ourselves? What does make us so unique? How we can recognise ourselves

in our reflection?

In other words, I`d like the spectators to think about their identities, and engage in a quest for searching their inner themselves. The mist of drops, reflecting in kaleidoscope; the face of the spectator watching himself in the mist: an ancient story repeating itself, an eternal enigma of our existence.

Clear as ever? An answer to the question that we can only give ourselves.