“Between-ness is a reciprocal energy, which I believe flows in between a subject and myself.”
-Miho Watanabe
Please share your ‘Between-ness’ experience with me and I will reply to your email, offering guidance to help you embark on a journey to create your ‘Between-ness’ art.
Awareness of Between-ness: Memory in my mind… therefrom…
What do I want to convey through my artwork?
Life presents us with numerous moments of awareness. What do these experiences teach us? They are not just encounters with people, living organisms, plants, and nature, but also with materials, space, history, and time. These are moments that resonate with our hearts, and sometimes we only become aware of their impact on us after they have passed.
This artwork expresses the ‘Between-ness’ that cannot be seen. Travel through my memories and time, I have recalled forgotten feelings and emotions, and the belief I held as a child that “spirits reside in all things”.
It is a space, time, experience, and interaction in between us.
I hope that those of you who see it will become lost in their own thoughts looking at the blanc wall in front of them, and realize the importance of the ‘Between-ness’ in their own lives, and that it will become a trigger for them to embark on a journey to create something new.
Miho Watanabe
Spirit Wave at Art Space on the Concourse
4 – 28 May 2023, The exhibition curated by a Willoughby City Council
Image: Miho Watanabe. Awareness of Between-ness: Memory and Time. Assembly – sounds. 2022. photo transfer and acrylic paint on silk.