For example ..., have you thought on "universality"?
What is it?
And, does it exist on earth?
When I am invited to foreign academia,
I am always introduced I am a Japanese architect....
It means that they - the others, at least here, in foreign countries -
superpose "particularity" of Japan on me.
However, on the other, I am sure it is never satisfactory for them
because there are numerous other Japanese architects in the world.
Now, only I could suppose is they must be looking through something other,
the remainder, which is never collected into Japan, in me.
And I wonder if it is what touches the "universality" .....
Here the difficulty is I can hardly catch it.
It is like a gaping hole at the centre of my body;
Or, like an itch on the back.
Satoshi Okada