Arrival

I returned to my parents' place in Central Finland after living in Japan exactly for two years. My spent time in Japan feels like a far away... image, although I know it was very real and life changing time for me. But the illusion is strong after continuing from the same season and almost exactly the same date +2 years when I left. The change from Japan to Finland is big. From noise and people to peace and solitude. What I missed still shocks me. 

Nature changes slow here. In two years time the biggest events happen in the micro level in a different rhythm it seems. I have to adapt back to this new rhythm. This is the purifying of the senses. I have to learn to see and listen on a different frequency again.

I will continue updating the photos from Japan since July in the future when I have the time. Now preparing for moving to a new home in southern Finland. More on that later.

Kuhmoinen, October 10th:

Departure

After few busy days of preparation I left Japan behind and returned to Finland. I'm still dizzy and don't know what to say. Although I bought my tickets already back in June, the departure was still sudden and I feel like I forgot something. Maybe I mix forgetting with losing. All I carry back are tens of thousands of immaterial images.

Some day I will go back but for now it's time to say goodbyes. I bid farewell to the spent two years that are bound to the place and people who shared it all with me. I hope we meet again in Kyoto. Only the past is lost.

Thank you.

Japan - (Somewhere over China and Russia) - Finland, October 7th:

Painting a week #38

Energy needs a body