住加拿大的日本画家Tomoyo Ihaya(井早智代),多次访问达兰萨拉,身临其境感受到流亡藏人的痛,以及在图伯特土地上的数百万藏人的痛。
这一年来,她在达兰萨拉期间,多次听到从喜马拉雅山麓那边传来一个个藏人以身浴火的消息。她与众多的流亡藏人一起,在达兰萨拉的夜里秉烛悼念火焰中的牺牲者,与此同时,她开始用画笔为火焰中的牺牲者绘画。
Tomoyo Ihaya为自焚藏人的绘画是一种画笔的记录。今年5月27日,在拉萨大昭寺与八廓街派出所之间,年轻的托杰才旦(Dobgye Tseten)和达吉(Dargye)自焚,由此开始,Tomoyo Ihaya为自焚藏人绘画,大约画了四、五十幅或更多。
正如她在题为“西藏在燃烧——来自达兰萨拉的图画”的博客上所写的:
Towards the last two months of my last visit to India in the spring of 2012, I encountered the Tibetan community in exile in India experiencing painful news of their people self-immolating in fire one after another in China-occupied Tibet. My experiences in the past visits in India (drawing a cremation site in Varanasi, documenting fire pits, cremation alters, and contemplating on life and death around fire) synchronized with this particular movement, an extreme way of ‘offering’ their bodies to ‘fire’ for asking freedom and peace.I could not help drawing large and small drawings as emotional response and with a sense of mourning.
After coming back to Vancouver, the self-immolation kept happening and I felt that my personal and professional task is not finished.
I have come back to India to continue to document and draw under the same theme.
以下绘画,摘自Tomoyo Ihaya的脸书和博客。我将分三部分发在我的博客上。第一部分的图说由更桑东智(@johnlee1021)和王力雄译为中文。
怀着难以言表的痛,深爱这每一幅画……感谢Tomoyo Ihaya!
压迫是可怕的,却不会让无畏者投降。
【注:绘画中关于每位自焚藏人生平的链接,见廣場活碑 > 人物誌 > 自由西藏网站,由香港人权人士蔡淑芳建。】
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