Silence - Mysterion

Silence and Beauty - Mysterion, 2017

Minerals and gesso on canvas
84H x 132W in (each) (3 panels)

"Silence - Mysterion", Mineral Pigments and Gesso on Canvas, 2017, 7'x33' (11' each). "Silence - Mysterion" was painted in Brehm Fujimura Studio in Los Angeles, California. Fujimura worked on this painting during a particularly dark period in his life, including the passing of his father, a renowned pioneer in Acoustics research, Osamu Fujimura. He recalls, "I have trouble remembering painting this image, due to the darkness that suddenly enveloped me with compounding losses including my father. Painting 'saved' me in a sense, because it was the only thing that pushed me to 'show up' to make me get up to go to the studio. But I do recall after many gestures and layers, all of a sudden three "eyes" or "stigmata" appeared on the left-most panel. I had to change the visual flow of the entire triptych, to make the marks an entry point of the work." The subsequent exhibit at Waterfall Mansion & Gallery celebrates the publication of Fujimura's "Silence and Beauty" book - an homage to Shusaku Endo's 1966 masterpiece.