"Within words there seems to exist some kind of indescribable power. And certainly it is their nature to carry something...and form symbols."
"Words, as living things, nurture lives...creating energy."
"It is my with that the words I write here hold their own souls, and that they bring something to the inner space in your life."
(Excerpts from "To the Inner Space in Your Life" by Takahashi Keiko Sensei)

When I first read these words I felt as if an arrow pierced straight through my soul. Perhaps I felt that way because I am a calligrapher. At the age of three I started training under my father's strict guidance. For many years, expressing the meaning and power of words through avant-garde calligraphy had been an essential theme for me. I asked Takahashi Sensei for her permission to use these words, and I immediately started working on the series "To the Inner Space in Your Life."

What is it that we try to hear in the inner space of our daily lives?

I am, to this day, drawn to the beautiful sound of Takahashi Sensei's words and to their ever-deepening meanings.