Knowing the Unseen

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Ena

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(The painting of this peony...)

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Ena

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(It feels less dark compared to the others.)
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Ena

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(The previous piece had really dark shadows. With paint everywhere and the canvas on the ground... It was like nothing mattered anymore to him...)
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Ena

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(But this one's a little different...)
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Ena

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(A moonbeam is illuminating this peony. As though it's giving it life.)
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Ena

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(But the dark areas around it...)
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Ena

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(It looks quite messy, despite the peony itself being painted carefully.)
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Rin

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<There's something off about this painting...
The flower's really pretty, but everything else is so dark.>
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Len

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<Yeah, it's interesting in that sense...>
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Len

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<What do you think was going through your dad's mind when he painted this, Ena...?>
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Ena

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I don't know...
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Ena

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But unlike those other paintings we just saw, this one involves a source of light...
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Len

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<Light...>
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Ena

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Yeah. It's hard to ignore the shadows and darkness, but he seemed to put a lot of effort into this beam of light...
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Ena

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But if his goal was to paint something about light, I feel that he would've done something different...
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Ena

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(What was going through his mind when he painted this...?)
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Yukihira

Shinonome.
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Ena

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Oh...

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Yukihira

How are things going?
What do you feel when you see this painting...?
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Ena

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...
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Ena

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Pain of some kind.

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Yukihira

Pain?
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Ena

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Yes...
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Ena

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This peony's pretty, but everything else around it feels like it was painted in a frenzy...
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Ena

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No, wait... But...
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Yukihira

Yes...?
Just try to say what comes to mind.
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Ena

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O-Okay... Umm...
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Ena

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...
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Ena

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I noticed something after seeing all his paintings up to this period...
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Ena

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For some reason, his works from around this time all seem to evoke pain and suffering...
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Ena

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But he feels that he has to keep drawing.
That's sort of what I got out of them...
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Ena

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And yet...
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Ena

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This painting... In the midst of the pain, there's also...
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Ena

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A sense of hope or something similar... I think that's what it's trying to express...
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Yukihira

...
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Yukihira

I see. That's what you felt when you saw this?
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Ena

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Huh...?
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Yukihira

There was a time when he struggled to overcome a massive creative block.
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Yukihira

I still to this day vividly remember the state he was in.
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Yukihira

He'd finally begun his journey as a painter, but no one seemed interested in looking at his art, let alone understand it.
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Yukihira

He drew and drew as much as he could. He was so desperate.
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Ena

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...!
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Yukihira

I even heard that he was struggling to make ends meet. Things got so hard that his wife had to support him and put food on the table...
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Yukihira

Then, one day, she gave birth to a baby girl.
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Ena

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What...?
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Yukihira

That was when he began asking himself...
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Yukihira

“Can I keep going on like this?”
“Should I give up on being an artist?”
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Yukihira

He decided to do one last painting.
A piece called “A Peony Blooming in the Night”.
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Ena

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He was ready to quit...?
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Ena

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You're joking, right? I mean...
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Yukihira

Yes, but...
As you know, he didn't end up quitting.
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Yukihira

I don't fully understand the pain he felt or how he figured out what he needed to do.
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Yukihira

However...
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Yukihira

I do know that he decided to fully commit himself to his art.
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Ena

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Fully commit...
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Ena

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...
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Yukihira

Now then, the exhibit's about to open.
Why don't we end our lesson here?
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Ena

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O-Oh, okay...
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Ena

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Um, Mr. Yukihira...?
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Yukihira

Yes?
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Ena

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Would it be okay if I stayed a little while longer...?
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Ena

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I want to take another look at the artwork...
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Yukihira

I don't mind.
But I'll be excusing myself here.
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Ena

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Okay.
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Ena

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Thank you very much.
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