Literature

"The thought, or imagination, is own but is not monopolized by Noriko Kurafuji. While it is the subject held in the arms of the great force, it also continues changing more and more. And it comes back to the heart of a person looking at her work. Such a circulation resembles the flow of the human life which is hardly explained. This circulating thought belongs to this artist but does not only to her. It resembles the wave of a life flowing inside of our body like the flow of the air on the earth, though we can’t usually realize it. Leaving daily experiences like joy and sadness, her thought is free among the thoughts in the genesis, and sometime a trip of her thought will reach the sacred light with a beautiful sound. It should be the splendid happiness for Noriko Kurafuji that a tale of her odyssey, which started here, is led by such a sacred eye. However, the wave of a life does not always give her only the best moment. The tale, with light and darkness, might be forced to keep silent for a while in the dead quiet, which lost light, and her tale will certainly find out again the light of stars, which will be shining whole in the sky, as well as the deep chaos."

- Hideharu Ogawa / art Critic, Consultant of monthly “Gallery”, Poet