Happy Birthday Noguchi

In Hong Kong

Thank you for being with us

On your birthday 

November the 17TH

Since I first encountered your work

Time flies

At our seminar

At the University of Alberta

With Professor Ironside 

During the oral exam

Still could not forget that excitement

On the work shown to me

By my Professor

You had a piece of work

There

With the trunk 

That has a mirror top

In spirit and  in soul 

Oh Hui Neng is with us

And you made that happen

Simply by

Placing that screen of soul

Mirroring the whole Universe

In

Echo

Mine

Echoing your soul

And everyone’s

You showed me about

About

Inter relationship

Conflicts of existence

About

Emptiness of space

About

Are

All that are important 

Unimportant

Likewise

All that are unimportant 

Important

A lesson of enlightenment

A lesson of Hope

A lesson about going in and out

Within and above and below

Like the Hui Neng ‘s poem

From the beginning 

Nothing is

And

Dust raises not

Therefore

On top of that mirror piece

You give us

Of the illusion

A concrete understanding

Innate

In a self covered with dust

All your works

And therefore

Carry such deep understanding

Of the play

Between solid and void

Between illusion and enlightenment 

Thank you

For being with us

Noguchi

In Hong Kong

On your birthday

Thank you again

Bernadette 

P.S

Titled Noguchi for Danh Vo:counterpoint is an exhibition at the M+ Pavlion at the West Kowloon Cultural District, 

16/11/2018 to 22/04/2019

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