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There are two galleries at St. Luke International Hospital in Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, and this exhibition by Dr. Runa Nakagawa will be held at the first gallery. This gallery is located in the space connected to the dining room on the first floor of the main building of the hospital, so many people, including those who enter the dining room, can look at the work. Today was Saturday, so it was a calm atmosphere.

As you can see, the work of the teacher is a three-dimensional work that beautifully arranges a small circle "○●" with different patterns in a large circle or square hanging on the wall. I'm sorry for the amateur's remarks, but I think it's a very original work that can't be seen anywhere else.

If you take a closer look at each small "○●", you can see that the pattern is a delicate "embroidered" on the fabric. It seems that it is a sewing machine embroidery, but it is easy to imagine that it takes a lot of time to make each of these small "○●" even for me who is unrelated to embroidery. The person who passed through this gallery may have been healed very much by seeing the work.

Unfortunately, this solo exhibition at St. Luke's Gallery has ended. I would like to expect it to be held somewhere in the future, but here in Chuo-ku, it seems that there has been an exhibition at the gallery in the Okuno Building in Ginza, so there may be a chance to visit again somewhere in Chuo-ku .

There is a homepage at St. Luke's Gallery, where you can check the future schedule.

≪First Gallery≫
https://www.luke-service.co.jp/primary/

≪Second Gallery≫
https://www.luke-service.co.jp/secondary/

Was it around the beginning of this month? Looking at this homepage, I found a name that I had seen somewhere.

"Runa Nakagawa,"

The name was the same as the art teacher I taught when I was a junior high school student.

The teacher's name is sadly that if you are a teacher who is not involved very much, your memory will fade over time. However, the name of this teacher "Runa Nakagawa" was different.

Certainly, I think it was when I entered as a first-year junior high school student, but the fact that "Runa" was newly assigned to this school and the origin of the name was introduced directly by the principal at the school morning meeting. Was. Its origin is the name of a foreign rocket or satellite or something launched into space. The principal was impressed by the fact that the young generation when the rocket was launched into space came to school as a teacher in "Runa", which is rare for the name at the time, was derived from an outpatient character that was rare for the name at that time. It was a state.

I was impressed with such a story as a first-year junior high school student, even though I was a child, and I remembered it decades later.

I'm a teacher ... I'm not a teacher ... I was an art teacher, so I thought, "If you're worried," so I looked into it.

『 Ｌｕｎａ 』

There is no doubt that this is the teacher. I was so convinced.

It was a lot of thrilling until I actually met, but when I talked, I was relieved to see that I was "Runa Nakagawa" in my memory. However, the teacher can't remember me, and I just remember one-sidedly, so what should I talk about ... It's been the first time in decades? It's troublesome to calculate. It was very embarrassed.

When I talked a lot, my memories of junior high school were revived and I missed it very much. What I learned from the teacher was digging trees to make trays, drawing a picture of a record jacket like a stencil, and digging a signature stamp. When I was in junior high school, I was hardly praised, but I remember that I was very happy because I had my teacher praise the "hardship" when I made it, not what I made it .

At the same time as when I graduated from junior high school, the teacher quit school, participated in the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, and was once again dedicated to art studies. When I was a junior high school student, I may have been one of the adult teachers for me, but now I was a teacher like a sister, so I was a generation where teachers could take on various challenges. And even now, I saw the energetic activity in front of me, and I was encouraged and at the same time felt very tight.

I wish you all the best in the future, and at the same time, I would like to continue to support you in the future.

This year, and this month of July, it was just 50 years since Apollo 11 landed on the surface of the moon. On this day, the annual fireworks rose on the Sumida River, but when this fireworks rises, summer is finally in full swing. In the teacher's work, "○●" may have a round moon, but I looked like a fireworks rising in the sky.