The work was inspired by "The Music of the Planets" composed by Johannes Kepler, a 17th century astronomer. Since ancient Greece, the traditional worldview in the West has been that the universe is in musical harmony, and Kepler's "Music of the Planets" was created by mapping the motion of the planets to the harmony of the music. I drew the score of Kepler's "Music of the Planets" in the lower part of the painting, and against the background of the Giraffe piano that covers the entire screen, I placed beads used in the traditional mikumo tradition in Yamagata, human figures handling them, and visions of infants and small Japanese human figures playing with them, in an attempt to express the connection of invisible beings in this world. The bolt on the top right of the screen is a reference to a medieval European relief based on a fable about a man running away from a beast and falling into a well where a monster is standing. In this fable, a man fleeing from the symbol of death, a bolt of lightning, falls into a well with a snake or a firefly, and the critical situation is compounded. Based on this fable, I depicted the bolt of the beast as a symbol for accepting death that comes to everyone and for bettering one's life for the rest of one's life. Behind the arched structure in the painting is a scene from the artist's own hometown.
The work was inspired by "The Music of the Planets" composed by Johannes Kepler, a 17th century astronomer. Since ancient Greece, the traditional worldview in the West has been that the universe is in musical harmony, and Kepler's "Music of the Planets" was created by mapping the motion of the planets to the harmony of the music. I drew the score of Kepler's "Music of the Planets" in the lower part of the painting, and against the background of the Giraffe piano that covers the entire screen, I placed beads used in the traditional mikumo tradition in Yamagata, human figures handling them, and visions of infants and small Japanese human figures playing with them, in an attempt to express the connection of invisible beings in this world. The bolt on the top right of the screen is a reference to a medieval European relief based on a fable about a man running away from a beast and falling into a well where a monster is standing. In this fable, a man fleeing from the symbol of death, a bolt of lightning, falls into a well with a snake or a firefly, and the critical situation is compounded. Based on this fable, I depicted the bolt of the beast as a symbol for accepting death that comes to everyone and for bettering one's life for the rest of one's life. Behind the arched structure in the painting is a scene from the artist's own hometown.