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| Saori Kanda |
Before she came to India, India used to appear to her as a place swathed
in purple. After she arrived here, she started
India in blue. As Saori
Kanda, a painter
from Japan, says “I realized
blue is the colour of peace. And India
to me stands for peace.”
Recently she created a riot with colours with her “music
inspired painting” on a larger-than-life canvas with a Japanese folk fusion
band named Kariyushi and, Miya fluitist. The place was Karigar Haat 2013, the
International Art and
Cultural Folk Festival orga- nized by AIM. Saori goes on, “I don’t have a preplanned idea while I paint. I try to
get the vibrations and energy
of the musicians
playing and the mood of the audiences. For example the Koriyushi band was playing a song about mother and child. It wasn’t about
India nor Japan, It was about an universal thing. So I listened to the song, ideas came from the bottom of my heart and it exploded. Live painting is where all my passion
is released. I exchange and share energy and emotions with people around me.”
The
Kariyushi band plays mostly traditional music from Yoron and Okinawa islands. With Tetsuhiko Tabata on vocals
and sanshin and
Miyako Maki, the band is now in its 16th year. It mostly plays folk songs of the region.
The band players
feel the songs talks about the true voice
in our hearts. Though the young generation is getting drifted
to modern western songs,
the band tries
to bring in modern elements into these songs so that these folk songs also become popular among the youth. Saori signs off saying, “We experience negative emotions, like anger, depression as
well as cosmic emotions, the colour of love inside our self. We should
let the positive thing blossom, like a white flower inside our heart,. When I paint, I try to spread that postivity to
everyone around me. We must keep the
white flower inside us continue
to blossom all the time.”
Saori talks
about her journey, “I always loved
drawing. During my childhood days, whenever
I came across a piece of paper even if it has writings
on the side, I
just started drawing and that was my favourite play. So I grew
up loving paintings and drawings. But long time ago,
I worked with one musician who made me feel that I wanted to grow outside of the canvas. I thought
the small canvas was
not enough. I moved to painting spontaneously to her music
as her music moved my heart and soul and that’s the time I
started live painting.”
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