On the Occasion of “Homage to Toru Kuranuki - Crystal Garden”
Ken’ichi Hata
Director, Japan Jewelry Business School
Through particular combinations of hemispheres of crystal, somehow the work emanates a mysterious aura. Could I be the only one who senses how different it is from the lackluster light produced by our increasingly digitized modern world?
The world of Toru Kuranuki, called “Homage to Homage to Toru Kuranuki - Crystal Garden”.
In the spaces between the hemispheres, here and there, rubies, sapphires and diamonds show their faces.
Looking at these pieces one by one, it comes to me that this mysterious aura could well be the aura of the earth itself.
And then we are guided gently toward memories of eternity.
At the time of the earth’s creation, the heavy elements fell toward the earth’s interior, and lightweight elements such as oxygen (O) and silicon (Si) were left on the surface.
Eventually, oxygen and silicon paired successfully and became quartz crystal (SiO2).
The surface of our earth is covered with crystals.
The surface of the earth - it’s a crystal ball.
Forty billion years ago, the oceans formed on this crystal ball. “Crystal”, also known as “water spirit”, is the foundation under our oceans.
By chance? By necessity? . . . Primeval life was born in the sea . . .
And so began the magnificent evolutionary drama of vibrantly living things, on this crystal-ball stage that is our earth.
A crystal, when finely cut down, can generate a natural vibration frequency via the piezoelectric effect. This vibration is one 31,536,000th of the earth’s rotation around the sun, that is to say, an accurate measurement of one second. The quartz-type transmission clock, or quartz clock, applies this principle. Scientists call it electromagnetism, and the religious refer to it as hado (vibration). Humankind has without a doubt evolved amid the electromagnetism of crystals. Just as animals are sensitive to electromagnetic waves and know when an earthquake is coming, surely there have been people with special gifts who, sensing some disaster in the electromagnetic waves of the crystals that cover the earth’s surface, could foretell the occurrence of changes in the natural world. This is where crystal energy and crystal fortunetelling have their beginnings.
Toru Kuranuki previously exhibited works focused on raw quartz crystal, entitled “Vibration Garden”.
Then in 2007, after a long hiatus, he presented “Homage to Kenji Miyazawa - Crystal Island”.
There can be no doubt that Toru Kuranuki’s sensitivity is one that realizes ever-greater evolutionary progress and is receptive to the vibrations of the earth.
The trueness of the gently swaying glimmers, emanating from the combinations of hemispherical crystals, has become visible.
The sparkling of stars in the night sky. . . The sparkling of water. . .
It is the shining of the stars in the night sky that have watched over the earth since its formation, and the shining of the waters that have moistened the cracked land and given hope of life to all living things that dwell on the earth’s face.
From the works of Toru Kuranuki, interpretations of wild dances of beautiful light have begun to pour forth, one after the other, through the combinations of crystal hemispheres, much as the earth creates a deep red sunset or a hope-filled rainbow.
That light so beautifully shoots through to the sensitivity that lies in our innermost depths. And there we cannot help but feel, in the same way that Kenji Miyazawa felt, the absolute will of nature
