I've always loved sunflowers, but the bright, sunny blooms glowing in our front yard this Summer are special. The seeds were from the work of art below, in the "To Masumi [1]" memorial exhibition, held last October, in celebration of the everlasting, peaceful, sunny spirit of Masumi Hayashi [2], the great photographer killed a year earlier, in Cleveland, with other great Cleveland artist John Jackson [3]. The Masumi Sunflower seeds distributed in Tremont may have been planted anywhere on Earth, and I wonder where else such Masumi Sunflowers are growing today, from this one showing of love [4] for love and art received and lost.
I imagine ours are the only Masumi Sunflowers in East Cleveland, this year, but I may be wrong... do you have any in your yard or neighborhood, that you know?
It occurs to me we have a responsibility to harvest and further distribute the seeds now growing in our Masumi Sunflowers, if possible... these first generation Masumis could spread across the globe, and quickly reach billions. There could be no stronger symbol of peace to spread around the globe than Masumi Sunflowers... how far has her energy reached in this first year of bloom? How far may we spread her energy now?
The Jacksonesque sculpture where we received our seeds featured the word "Distance" and is shown below... I'm sorry I don't know who was the artist, and I don't have a complete photo... anyone have more details and images of this?
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Links:
[1] http://realneo.us/events/to-masumi-sep-2007
[2] http://realneo.us/Masumi-Hayashi-rest-in-peace
[3] http://realneo.us/John-Jackson-rest-in-peace
[4] http://realneo.us/blog/norm-roulet/my-masumi
[5] http://realneo.us/system/files/FirstSunflower2008.jpg