Kobayashi Masaru

In my late 30s, I was invited to work in the field of medical phoography in addition to advertising photography. My first job was a photographic interview at a tertiary emergency facility in the early days of the field. The scene was a university hospital facility where extremely critical emergency patients were transported, and it was a shocking sight to me at first. As time passed and the surgeon explained the procedure, I saw a scene of blood flowing through a large blood vessel called the inferior vena cava in the center of the body, and I could see through the vessel.

It was different from what I had imagined, and the flow was quiet, as if in response to the beating of my heart. What caught my attention was the rhythm of the flow. It was a rhythm I had experienced somewhere else, and I thought about it for a while. I remembered that it was the same rhythm as the waves on the beach! The moment I realized this, I felt a dignified energy coming from the patient's body. It was a beautiful vibration that moved me for a moment. After that, this feeling stayed with me forever, and eventually I wanted to express this feeling in something, and after some trial and error, I settled on painting, but I could not express the feeling I had at that time.

Several years later, I happened to visit a lotus pond by a swamp. At that time, there was only one unusually large and tall lotus flower in bloom. When I saw the flower, I suddenlrecalled the emotion of the surgery ba and felt a shock that brought me together. After that, many images seemed to flow from the lotus flower, and they continue to do so to this day. Even works that at first glance seem to have nothing to do with lotus flowers seem to have flowed from lotus flowers.