■Kanna Inoue
I was told from a doctor at a later date, that it was a miracle that I was still alive. I had surgeries and have been hospitalized for about a year. Therefore, I quitted my job.
When I woke up in bed, I saw the scenery from the window which was really bright. I found them very beautiful, the mountains in the distance, rivers with slow stream, small town far away. The beam of the sun through the window glass made a pattern on sheer white curtains. Air through the window made that curtain alive. I had so many surgeries, that I felt myself like a patchy doll. While I was attached to the bed, only the teddy bear that my mother brought watched “me” all the time. Once I got some strength gradually, I faced to that teddy bear by sketching it in silence.
I faced with the sceneries in my memory and the “teddy bear” in the room. That made me face with myself. I’m painting the “teddy bear” to face with myself.