If you call the love of choosing and eating a specific person from the world 'romance,' I call the love of being directly related to the world 'work.'

Setsu Nagatsuka

 

 

Only when you realize that you are not a member of the family, a man or a woman, but an individual,  you will become 'lonely' and 'be flown to the world,' says the fashion illustrator says. He continues, "In the loneliness, you have a thirst for the existence of others and are driven by 'the impulse to connect to the world,' when true romance and work are born."  From "Adult Women are Beautiful."

 

April 27,  2017

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun