Can Art Be A Form of Prayer?

Ayakoh Furukawa-Leonart



June 15 - 26, 2016








I Don't Believe People Die.
They Just Go Uptown, To Bloomindales.
- Andy Warhol



You Are Built Not to Shrink Down to Less.
But to Blossom into More.
- Oprah Winfrey




I Don't Know Who Invented High Heels.
But All Women Owe Him A Lot.
- Marilyn Monroe




I See My Body as an Instrument Rather Than an Ornament. - Alanis Morissette




My Borther, Don't You Dare Lay Down Your Life I
I Cry For You Brother.
Don't You Dare Lay Down Your Life.
You, The Youngest Child in Our Family. Cherished All The More.
Mother And Father Didn't Raise You to Wield Weapons, And to Murder.
They Didn't Bring You Up to The Age Twenty-Four So That
You Could Kill Or to Be Killed. - Akiko Yosano




My Borther, Don't You Dare Lay Down Your Life II
I Cry For You Brother.
Don't You Dare Lay Down Your Life.
You, The Youngest Child in Our Family. Cherished All The More.
Mother And Father Didn't Raise You to Wield Weapons, And to Murder.
They Didn't Bring You Up to The Age Twenty-Four So That
You Could Kill Or to Be Killed. - Akiko Yosano




Young Mary With Her Son:
I Am Drowning In My Tears.
I Want My Son to Have a Long Life.
No Mother Can Take That Her Son Is Crucified in front of Her.
I Gave My Son Flesh and Blood.
Here, Take My Flesh And Blood and Save His Life.




Amaterasu:
Mother, I Has Been Inside of You For Ten Months and Listening to Your
Heartbeat in Every Moment of Your Life.
You Created This Perfect Shrine for My Soul.
My Body Is an Entity of the Ancient Secret of Live That Your Womb Remembers.




Hariti/ Kishimojin:
She Killed Hundreds of Children to Feed Her Children.
She Should Have Realized the Pain of Losing Own Child.
Huge Grief to Those Poor Parent.




Death Means A Lot of Money
Death Can Really Make You Like A Star - Anday Warhol



Until You Feel the Warmth Again:
How Could You Have Perpetrated Such Brutality to People?
You Have Lost Your Humanity in The Repeated Atrocities.
You Smell Blood but Not a Flower.
You Feel Pain in Your Broken Ribs But Not the Warmth of the Sun
On Your Face Any More.




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