"Seven Cathedrals from 'Kojiki of Architecture'" is a work that was drawn for an exhibition and publication in London at the demand of A. Boyarsky, who was the headmaster at that time of the A A School in 1991.As for Boyarsky at that time, he held the perception that something that transcends the chaos of the world is a proposal for a world system proposal that responds spiritually and physically, and in which the system of Eastern imagination and new science have been forced to coexist. "Seven Cathedrals from 'Kojiki of Architecture'" is nothing more than that world view, in other words, mandala.
Mandala is not ancient formalism, rather it is a whole shape that always happens to have a sense of the present age, and it is something expresses the actual circumstances of the world. It is not an exaggeration to say that the history of architecture and cities is the history of the expression of this mandala.
Heaven, people, and earth exist as expressions in our architecture.
Architecture is analogous to the emptiness of heaven; also, architecture is analogous to the human body. The reverse also is correct too.
In ancient temples, their designers attempted to describe the cosmos of the universe and the human body by means of architecture.
In this "Seven Cathedrals from 'Kojiki of Architecture'" also, the architecture laid out so that it appears and disappears into the scenic beauty, the symbol map sprouting inside chaos, are expressed with various grotesque shapes.
The number "seven" is a perfect sacred number that indicates the biorhythms of the universe.
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