[Sunday Times=Chris Lee Reporter]"I've made 20 paintings and over 100 poems since I met aliens in my life" says Maki Starfield. It was this encounter that caused an increase and new dimensions in her creativity.
Maki Starfield was born April 2, 1972 in Ehime, Japan. At five o'clock in the morning on October 29, 2018, she felt like she was half dreaming. There was a light that enveloped her body, and she saw an alien creature in her bedroom.
"At first I felt like I was dreaming," she says, "but I felt that the light was real. I saw a space creature that looked like a Moon King."
It was a moment of transformation. Though she had written poetry, she had not painted. She suddenly realized that she could paint the creature she saw and paint his world as well. It was an opening into deep imagination.
Her paintings, "Save the Earth" and "Awakening Cat" were featured in France's Le Salon, a world art exhibition that presents artists from France as well as artists from Japan. Many legendary world painters have participated in Le Salon: Renoir, Millet, Monet, Manet, Delacroix and Cezanne, to name a few. In her exhibitions Maki represented Japan.
Since then, Maki Starfield has participated in both domestic and world art exhibitions and competitions. Both her paintings and her poetry have won many prizes: like the British poet, Lord Byron, she finally "woke up to find herself famous."
Maki Starfield is not a "realist" painter or poet but an artist of the imagination. Her world encompasses not only her life but the possibility of other lives, other worlds. "We are made to live like robots," she writes in one of her poems.
The reality of many people is controlled in the future as well. They will fall to the world of things.
Civilization and culture are a mirage in history. Do not enter into the darkness of the shadow. Look at the shadow's light.
저작권자 ⓒ선데이타임즈, 무단전재 및 재배포 금지