...a deathly serenade...

perfection. The novelist, who is perhaps the most in
danger and naked of all Artists, cannot hide, unlike a
song writer, for example, who can make one hit song
or have a label engender an image, which may or may
not align with the reality of the Artists true Artistry.
Whereas, the novelist is given the most difficult job of
having to juxtapose the deeply technical and lofty
abstractions of the world around an image that,
regardless of how much it is garnished or
metaphorically asserted, is clear for all too see. Visual
Art and painting is difficult, but it's complexity lie in
the metaphysical reality of the work. Each medium
has to respected for what it is but the mechanisms and
craft do elicit truths in terms of which Artistry is most
difficult to 'perfect' (Modern Art's Relationships, 2000
Onwards, Ferud Fyrdor). " I personally can say I felt
Yashu was the visual eye to the same issues Franz
would write about confliction — in reality they were
one and the same; two peas in a pod.
In the corner of the room is a sculpture by
Tasanake Sukido (1929 - 1986) entitled: 1は、 戦 後 愛 ,
which translates into English as, One Love After War.
Sukido was renowned for making a series of thirteen
works, of which this is one, which aims to "disturb the
senses," said Sukido (Japanese Art of Balance, Yukido
Tanizaki), "and shatter the illusion of there being a
difference between reality and dreams, death and
immortality, the female body and the male body." The
sculpture has elongated forms which echo Egyptian
art and the body has a primitive aspect with a spear
going through the top of the abstracted head. It can
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