Walk with me: Hiroo / Shibuya and Discovering Freyja no Sekai By Lala Lopez de Leon It’s the first day of the long weekend towards the one-year delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and the perfect time to catch up with friends, for another “just us” outing! No boyfriends or husbands – their lunch and dinners prepared in advance, so no complaints expected. First stop was the Courtyard Hiroo, a truly chic property that houses an art gallery, a café, a yoga studio, and Freyja No Heya art and English classroom, and the venue for Milena’s artist friend Freyja Dean’s SACHI Solo Exhibition 2021 (July 2nd – 24th). The first time I saw Freyja’s paintings, I gasped…Fantastic! Today was a reconfirmation of how fantastic her works really are, as well as the stories they tell. For the rest of us non-artists,
these stories serve to guide us into Freyja’s world and help us see and feel the works as she created and intended them to be. Rowena said the Lung Ta painting seems to pull her in and up onto the clouds. Freyja has amazing stories to tell, and this Demeter and Persephone painting was a subject of one such story; which is apparently very personal to her. I may be partial to this one, though, for a childish reason - my fascination for dragonflies. But I have to admit, this one is my favorite piece in her Sachi collection. The Rich Old Chestnut Forest painting has drawn me into it with all of my senses. I see no green in this canvas, but the sense of the forest was just as strong. And, these lines that Freyja chose to caption this particular work affected me even more.
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