Memory of 20 Years Ago
Looking at this picture, I do not have any
words absorbed by it, and
It seems to me as if
All the history of sculpture starts and ends with
Michelangelo's Pieta
Yes
It is definitely a divine work, but it exceeds the hands of
God
In order to see it
I have visited the St. Pietro Cathedral so many times, and
Each time, I have sat in front of it all day long
I felt Michelangelo to be himself a God, and yet at the same
time
Obviously he is a human called artist
I do not know what I should call him
Before going to bed in
the evening prior to the consecutive holidays looking at
the photographs of sculptures, I clearly recall the
conversations that I had in this room 20 years ago with
a friend of mine who was aiming to be a painter
At the same time, I am intoxicated by the impression of
furious power in the incomplete torso called Slave in
Academia shown on the atter page which seems as if it is
trying furiously to get out of the marble