Contemplative mood: Japan as interpreted by florists Victoria Dorofeyeva and Tatyana Sterlikova

Passing the gallery

Leading headings: Dilara Muradova

A photo: Kirill Ovchinnikov

Magazine: N11 (78) 2003

Repeat what the Japanese are doing is impossible. You can go to Japan, go around the Golden Temple, look at real Japanese gardens, learn Japanese, come back and ... consider yourself a Japanese colonist temporarily living in the province. Watch Japanese films, read Japanese poems, celebrate Japanese holidays ... Or, taking your passion with irony, wear, for example, flowers in kimono and drink real Japanese tea behind a screen of dry marsh grass Japan for so long and diligently tried to transfer to the Russian soil that it could not remain without consequences. We fell in love with "Dolls" and sunrise, bonsai and sakura, Japanese minimalism and hockey poetry, but read them, as usual, in your own way. The contemplative mood turned into lamps from dry grass and leaves, the arrival of spring and the flowering of sakura into cabbage decorated with strings of bright flowers, the onset of cold weather wrapped in Kalanchoe flowers wrapped in warm kimono. But most of all went to the screens - so reserved from the Japanese, so colorful and bright with us. Interpretations are controversial, but worthy of attention - if only because interpretations are always more interesting than direct quotations ...