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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
Kamanaka: He made a story about a firebird. A firebird is a symbol of energy in the universe.
Tomomi: It’s called Phoenix in English.
Kamanaka: There’s one scene I remember the firebird was leaving earth and watching earth from the universe, and then a nuclear war started on the earth. And you see such beautiful fragments of our earth. At this moment, the firebird thinks that human beings are stupid creatures for finally starting a nuclear war and then the firebird flies away. The image of ending the world was like that for me, ending up in smoke. And the image of the end of the world was caused by nuclear war.
But when I went to Iraq, I met children who were dying of cancer and leukemia. I thought my image was wrong when I met Rasha. When I met Rasha in Iraq, I reversed how I saw the end of the world for all of ourselves. For example, you see the sky is blue and you feel warm. You drink hot coffee and you can taste it. So, if you live you can feel the world and the world exists for you. But when I sensed that Rasha was dying, the sense of Rasha was going away. For Rasha, the world was going away, too. Then I found out that each person and each individual person’s death was the end of the world.
In Iraq, so many children were dying, and it’s going on still—an invisible and unknown death. For each of them, it’s the end of the world. |
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