TBT - Mysterious Artist

Throw back Thursday !

Today, I would like to talk about a mysterious artist who I met when I was around 22 years old.

Artists,

I was not paying attention about artists around me until around 22 years old.

Only thing I remember was about one of my middle school classmate friends whose name was Terue, in the art class, her creations in the art class were something different from many other students including me.

The theme was to draw 3D art and all the classmates had to draw the same scenery that the teacher prepared.

I noticed that Terue's drawing was something different, it was really really well done and she got a big compliment from the teacher.

I felt this must be a natural artistic talent which not every person has.

But that's all.

I just thought everyone has something they are good at.

Then I forgot about it.

Time past,

then there was a time when I was working for a restaurant bar in the night time when I was around 22.

In that work place, there was a very beautiful lady who was working together with me , and soon we became friends .

Her name was Sayuri.

Her face was more like a Japanese traditional type of beauty, the type which fits very well with a Kimono.

She had beautiful black long shining straight hair with a very slender, delicate body and light skin. Very refined and elegant , soft, but strong inside.

We are same age and also her birthday was only one day different from mine.

Her birthday is July 16 and my birthday is July 17.

After hearing she and my birthday are very close, and same age, I felt even more close feeling to her.

In her birthday, I gave a bunch of Showy Baby's-breath flowers which I felt good for the interior in her room .

and in the next day in my birthday, she gave me several white roses surrounded by a lot of showy Baby's-breath flowers.

She was a student at an art school during the day.

I sometimes saw her crying, talking with someone on the public phone in the work place.

I was wondering what's wrong with her, maybe relationship issue with her boyfriend ? but her issue was mainly for her art school and financial issue to pay to the school.

When we went to a fancy French restaurant with her friends from the art school, she talked about modern art there.

I was not knowing anything about modern art but was just curiously listening to her talking.

I just thought she wants to be a professional painter or something.

After a few months past, Sayuri quit the work and I also changed the work place but we sometimes talked on the phone.

One year past, and she sent invitations to me and other our related friends for her first time gallery which she was going to open with her artist friend.

I was excited to go to her gallery and see her creations.
But I was imagining paintings.

We brought a bunch of flowers and congratulated her when we saw her in the reception of the gallery.

There were several people in the gallery who were wearing like unusual fashion and artist look.

When I saw her and her friend's creations, it was not paintings.

It was something which was made with thin wood stick, like chopsticks made of wood, and she was making a tower style of building and also something else.

and on the ground of the wood stick creation, there was a painting of water flowing in a river.

I was a little confused and was wondering what is it ?

and then Sayuri came to me , so I asked her

" is this the one you created ? "

and then she replied

" Yes! it's good , right ?   The theme of this is love. "

and she started explaining about her creation,

but... I was really shocked.

Because I could not understand anything what she was talking from seeing her creation, which actually looked to me like it was just like a kindergarten children's playing creation with no meaning.

and then suddenly I felt a big distance between her and me.

I felt she is seeing something I can not see and that she can see a world which I'm not getting it and I don't understand.

I had never had friends before who I felt like that in the past, at that time.

Me and Sayuri's other friends also were feeling the same, but they said many artists have their own world which normal people can not understand, so they were not so surprised about it.

There were several other guests who Sayuri and her artist friend invited for their gallery, and they looked interested to look around their creations.

That was my last time to meet Sayuri because I flew to Australia for adventure and then moved to a different place and then flew to Canada for about 1 year and a half. so we lost contact each other.

I don't know why I felt a big distance from her since then.

When I think about it now, it's just a different taste of art, with a different view, so it's not a big deal.

But maybe at that time, I was not grown enough to know , and felt like she, who I felt close feeling, had been living in a different world which gave me a shock.

She is ( was ) an abstract type of artist.

She was different and had her own world.

and her creation was not my taste , that's all.

While thinking about her, I started thinking about myself objectively, and thought others might be seeing me like that as well, in some ways.

Suddenly Sayuri came to my mind recently and I wondered what' she's been doing.

But there is no way to meet her anymore since I lost contact her.

Wishing her life is going well and happy.

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