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Maio Motoko – Fleeting Moments "In Japan, the ideas of 'hare' and 'ke', the extraordinary and the mundane, were deeply embedded. Life was lived in a rhythm of separating the special and the ordinary. The folding screen, which is not 'always' there, is manifest in the fleeting moment of the extraordinary. We are in a reality of irreplaceable sensations and experience. For me, a screen is something which exists both in the moment and in the infinite." A great contemporary artist must satisfy several criteria:...more