Melancholia - Tokyo Metropolitan Artspace

It was very early on a mid summer morning.I was walking in this deep forest which spreads in the middle of a park. I was alone,looking for a dog--a dog in color blue.So soft and gentle the sun shined around me,it has conceived its enormous insanity deep inside.Holding my breath ,I took a step after another step ,imagining of that blue dog which might appear in my sight right at this moment.Suddenly,a keen shriek torn up the delicate veil of silence that had filled the air.It was a bird flying away with its wings,--wings in color yellow green.It was a bird called "The wicked bird ".The wicked bird flew in big circles three times around,then flew up much higher,disppeared in the pale purple sky.

It was right after that,I found a dead body lying in the fountain.Among the gloomy green fog ,there the body lay,having the sunshine define its features.Moving towards it,so slowly as if fascinated,I noticed that a kind of strange feeling has caught me in. That is,purified by the clear water and sunshine,the dead body seemed so peaceful and quiet,I mean,more tha n anything I'd ever seen.As it should say,death would be the only thing to bring out the human nature,the body lay there so comfortably,melting itself exactly into the world.

Before long, I left there quietly,filled with calm like the tacit moonstone,looking for a dog --a dog in color blue.

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