LOST IN TRANSLATION - Chapter 1 - KOYASAN
It all started with a heart-beat! Laurent and Jerome had returned from a very exciting trip in Japan and were bubbling over with enthusiasm. I asked them if they had been to Teshima. An island situated in the Seto inland sea with virtually nothing on it - except a heart-beat museum. The French artist, Christian Boltanski has been collecting heartbeats from all over the world and in 2015 had some 35,000. In 2010 I had mine recorded at an exhibition at the Grand Palais. I told the men about it and some years later they suggested that we all made a trip together to visit Japan - and listen to my heart-beat! Not to mention all the other places that we would visit. Many of them, I had never even heard of. I had not been back to Japan for more than 20 years. Would it be a shock? How much had it changed? Once we arrived in the Osaka airport, it looked like calm seas ahead. The Japanese organisation, punctuality, cleanliness leaves us for cold. We picked up our cases fast and headed for the