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Midori Suzuki is a Japanese artist who has developed her career mostly in Mexico, both as an individual artist and as a member of the Japanese-Mexican artist collective Flor de Maguey. She was trained as an artist in Japan and Spain. In the latter country, she saw a sarape for the first time and became interested in Latin America, going to Mexico for the first time in the early 1980s. She met her husband while in the country and although they first lived in Japan, they then decided to live permanently in Mexico. Suzuki has had numerous exhibitions in Japan, Spain and Mexico, both individually and in group showings. Her work has also been featured in books and magazines. ==Life== Midori Suzuki was born on August 21, 1947 in Kesennuma, Japan. She attended the Musahino Art University in Japan, graduating with a degree in Fine Arts. In 1974, she went to study tapestry art at the Escuela Artística in Granada, Spain for four years. Here she met a young woman from Veracruz wearing traditional sarape. Not knowing what it was, its form and colors made Suzuki interested in Latin America and its art.〔 In 1979, her tapestry work won first prize at the Concurso de Andalucía. In the early 1980s, she received university support to travel to Mexico. During this trip she met her future husband, Javier Farías Díaz (father of her child Maya). The courtship was long-distance by mail for about a year. They married and decided that he would live at first in Japan; however her hometown of Kesennuma was very traditional and did not support the mixed marriage. For this reason the couple then moved to Mexico to live permanently in 1986.〔〔 Suzuki’s hometown was one of the severely affected by the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. Unable to reach her family for ten days, she still had to attend an art exhibition. After ten days, she saw a news report on the Internet and saw a woman knocking on the doors of the houses of her family’s neighborhood. When the reporter knocked at the door of her family’s house, her sister came out and said that everyone had survived. After this, she was able to get through by telephone and confirm what she saw on the screen. While her immediate family survived, Suzuki lost five aunts and uncles and all survivors lost all of their possessions. During those ten days she decided to do something to help. She circulated two large poster boards with images of traditional Japanese and Mexican dolls for people to write messages of support. The response was so overwhelming that she made ten more. She then translated all the messages into Japanese, some of which were complete paragraphs.〔〔 When Suzuki could finally travel to Japan, she brought the poster boards with her to show at schools, community meetings and other places in the affected areas. She also organized a demonstration of Mexican piñatas at a primary school to provide some fun relief.〔 The poster boards remain at the San Juan Bautista Museum in Ishinomaki. In addition, she and the Mexico Japan Associated collected 120,000 pesos for three communities in Miyagi.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Midori Suzuki (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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