Inner worlds made visible

WATANABE KAHO

Six years of making have been leading somewhere.I'm building a world now — a long-form fantasy work, conceived as an IP.The manuscript, the music, the visual image — all of it, alone.I'm looking for the people who feel this kind of work, even before it's complete.

Watanabe KahoFor a long time, creating and living were inseparable for me. Music, words, photography — these were not means of expression so much as ways of existing.
There were years of pain, struggle, and loss. In the middle of them, I came to understand something: pain already fills the world, in as many forms as there are people who carry it. What I needed to make was not a reproduction of that pain, but a presentation of what lies beyond it.
What lies beyond it, I call recovery and prayer.
Recovery is not the absence of suffering. It is a movement — retreating and advancing, breaking and continuing. That repetition itself is what recovery means. And prayer is not a theological act. It is something that moves from within — an invisible dynamical force directed toward what endures. These two do not exist separately. Recovery holds prayer within it. Prayer holds recovery within it.
Human beings carry a nature that holds opposing forces at once — despair and hope, what has broken and what endures, what has been released and what cannot be surrendered. These contradictions do not produce opposition; they prompt choice and change. They are not resolved. But they can be stood in. I call that place the threshold. It is a point of divergence, a point of connection — and the place where one begins to walk again. From that place, I make my work.

私は長い間、創作することと生きることが切り離せませんでした。音楽、言葉、写真——それらは表現の手段である前に、自分が存在するための方法でした。傷つき、苦しみ、もがいた時間があります。その時間の中で、私はあることに気づきました。痛みは、それを抱えた人間の数だけすでに世界に満ちている。ならば私が作るべきものは、その痛みの再現ではなく、痛みを通過した先に何があるかの提示です。その先にあるものを、私は回復と祈りと呼びます。
回復とは完治ではありません。後退し、また進む。崩れ、また続く。その繰り返しの運動そのものです。そして祈りとは、神学的な行為ではなく、それでも続く何かへの——内側で動く、見えない力学的な作用です。この二つは別々に存在しません。回復の中に祈りがあり、祈りの中に回復がある。人間とは、相反するものを同時に抱える性質を持っています。絶望と希望、崩れたものとそれでも続くもの、手放したものと譲れないもの。その矛盾は対立を生むのではなく、選択や変化を促しています。しかし解決されないまま、そこに立ち続けることができる。私はその場所を閾値と呼びます。分岐点であり、接続点であり、もう一度歩み始める場所でもあります。私はその場所から作ります。

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