-Mariko Mori is a Japanese artist -Her work shows the merging of consumer entertainment fantasies with traditional Japanese imagery -The artist uses a creative interpretation of traditional Japanese art forms.
--Mori herself appears as if in a vision in the guise of the Heian deity, Kichijoten -Kichijoten is the essence of beauty and the harbinger of prosperity and happiness. -She holds a wish-granting jewel, a nyoi hoju, which has the power to deny evil and fulfill wishes -The jewel symbolizes Buddha’s universal mind -Animated figures or lighthearted aliens play musical instruments on clouds -A lotus blossom floats on water and symbolizes purity and rebirth into paradise -Set in a landscape evoking the Dead Sea, a place of extremely high salinity: salt is seen as an agent of purification
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