I have been active as an artist for a long time, and already 30 years have passed.
I have always dreamed of becoming a potter since I was a teenager, and that has been the axis of my life. In the beginning, I started studying abroad, and then I backpacked around 30 countries, coming into contact with various art, ruins, and people, hoping to install art from around the world. During that time, I met many different people, had many moving experiences, and maybe settled down a little? After about 10 years, I got married and raised two children, and during that time, I continued to work at a slow pace, but I never stopped expressing myself, and I never stopped exhibiting, and I had many different experiences.
People's true nature doesn't change that much, and when my first child left home, I wondered what I really wanted. I realized that I hadn't changed at all since I was in elementary school, when I dreamed of interacting with people from all over the world through expression, sharing my emotions and exchanging hearts across borders. I simply wanted to fly around this vast earth as long as I lived, see many things, be moved by them, express them, and live in that cycle. Humans are simple creatures, and even if our surface changes, our true nature may never change.
I was willing to put in any effort to get there, but I just wanted to experience it. I just wanted to be moved. Expression is the crystallization of emotion, and emotion is the entrance to expression. There was nothing mixed in there. Before I knew it, on the road of my life's journey, I met many artists, many people who were striving to make their dreams come true. Everyone was living their own lives to the fullest, and it was beautiful. I also received a lot of courage and energy from them. And recently, after being active for a long time, we naturally started to join hands, and we started to work together to do what we wanted to do, and for some reason, we even started to establish a non-profit general incorporated association with a friend. It started with the idea of going with the flow, and out of nowhere, the wonderful word "musuhi" suddenly appeared. We would like to conclude our words on this launch day by saying that we hope to be a place where people can join hands through natural connections, connect their dreams, enjoy a beautiful and fun world, continue to share their impressions across borders, and live even more vibrantly and joyfully.
Junko Hori
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