Hi Fumiko!
Happy New Year to you as well! As always, your words are a delight and
an encouragement. I love your "art is medicine" line. I feel the same way
(on several levels).
In reference to your mentioning of a Japanese woman asking about if I
consciously put "feminism" in my books, I think that what I said was that
I don't see things in "isms" and that I do not approach my work through
"isms". I actually try to avoid "isms" altogether.
I am glad that people find affirmation, validation, encouragement, and
inspiration in my work. But those things are meant for all readers to get.
Not just one sex, or any other group or "ism". I think that what I said
was that I write from a "personal" or "human" point of view. Not a
"gender" or "ism" point of view.
I think you will find that approach inclusive and accesable and
inspiring to all. I appreciate that all genders and races appreciate the
book. I appreciate that feminists appreciate the book. But one of the
themes in my books is to trancend these categories, groupings, and isms.
It is to hopefully inspire readers to see the reality of people themselves
instead of seeing people through a lens of labels and "isms". The idea is
(in Akemi's case anyway) that even simple labels and categories such as
gender (male and female) can not even categorize everyone. Some people do
not fit into even those simple labels. And ultimately, these labels are
silly.
In reference to your mention of Anh, I hope that there is no
misunderstanding, but that part was a little confusing to me. Anh adores
you. She really enjoyed meeting you in NYC. She send you a card out of
sincerity. It was a piece of your artwork that she wanted to share with
you, since you mentioned some well regards to her in one of your missives
to me. I passed on your kind words, and she felt that it was good to share
something of hers with you as you did so with her.
Both of us have nothing but the best regards for you. But I think part
of your post confused her. I assure you that there is no wierdness in the
way that it seems you may have percieved it. It never crossed either of
our minds. Each of us have nothing but the sincerest regards for you. You
have been writing to me personally for a long time, and I hope that you
continue if you so desire. Anh totally understands that. I am glad that
you are on the message board and I thank you for your mail. It is always a
pleasure! I recently returned home and found your new package which I very
much appreciate!
Thanks for the New Years Wish! I actually saw it right around Midnight!
When we were celebrating with some friends.
Best,
David
: Happy Fermented sparkling grapes.....
: Thank you for your postcard Anh!
: I havent seen you in such a
long while....
: I enjoyed your Art and semi self portrait, I believe
the
: mouth? Perhap's you will be illuminating and writing
: the
New Kabuki soon? Then everyone will be sending you
: reams of mad fan
mail too!
: Of course i write to Mr. David Mack because usually he
: creates
this fathomless mystery!!! It's been so long
: since i have sent you
all tea.... Champagne tea for
: the tea totallers! Champagne ice cream
Peach and
: Champagne, Violets and Champagne? Ah but those
:
bubbles...?
: I will send some soon...
: Bye the way? At the convention such
eons ago?
: Perhaps you forgot to send the photo's we all took
:
together? I would love to have them for my scrap book!
: Of Course
David will be a millionaire soon and too famous
: to remember me? So i
think i better get my photo's
: before?
: Strange to think of images of My cousin Les and moi
: somewhere?
Back when i wore so much make up! ha ha....
: It's peculiar i have some photos of me when i was a
: youngin'
wearing a white african style kabuki make up,
: but i don't have a
scanner! Also, i am without caviar!
: It is gracious of David to respect his fans of the
: opposite
sex? There really is not a politically
: correct word for the
gestating, lactating
: counterparts.
: Of course we all realize that gestating and lactating are
: not
the sole purpose or woman. However, not of
: anthropormorphic
resonance. WE have potential to
: think, reason and intuit. As a woman
fan of a very
: powerful and inspiring epic as Kabuki it is all the
: more cathartic.
: I am looking back on the many yeah long years of being an
: avid
fan! During such quelsome abberant times of my
: life among
terrifically sexist men at the Zen
: Institute which was my former
residence. Writing to
: you David Mack was a very sacred, healing and
landmark
: of the 1900's....
: My family was estranged from me and my Greatgrandfathers
: temple
was my promise to my mother before she died. It
: is a shame it was
overtaken by a gang not unlike the
: Taliban in that they we're
tyrannical and corrupt in
: their actions and intentions. I had
promised my
: ancestors I would try my best to find the rosetta
:
stone only to find ordeals of infamy and horrors.
: The disturbing vision of Kabuki and ultimate alchemical
: escape
and transcendance was a light and the end of
: the tunnel for me too!
I am writing these somehow
: terribly personal things, because i
believe as a fan?
: David? You should know how your work has had a
: Hippocratic cathartic rainbow after the sinnister
: storm in my
travels. If i we're a creator? I would
: like to know who my
supporters are and what effect you
: have had in my life. So thank
you....
: I am now back with my eccentric family and i believe
: writing to
you when i was alone was the stepping stone
: to realizing what
transformation can be. In creation
: of Fumi's or letters, studying
history thru your art
: as well as my own family Japanese-Cajun
history. When
: there we're no Asian portraits in Art to identify with
: ? I found Kabuki, and fell into it like Alice in
: Wonderland in
a RAbbit hole!
: ARt does have this power and this is why it will always
:
transcend deductive theories in science. Because in
: and of itself by
the power of the viewer and the Art?
: WE can transform ourselves.
Submerging synapeses,
: brain compartments in feasts of detoxification
: therefore combatting putrefication of smelly labels,
: droughts
of beauty and portents into magic.
: I firmly believe Art is medicine!
: I enjoy your message board! Esp, if I might add the
: recent
posts by the unknown genius known
: kaliedescopically as a pleathora
of heteronymic
: disguise? No no! Yet as Mnemnosyne herself! The
:
cyber-muse-ick! ( i am a fast learner Calendula)!
: Muse-Ick ( so
thank you to the genie of hotmail)! YOu
: have the most fascinating
posts therefore persons
: supporting you. Just don't forget about us
and i
: appreciate that you do not discriminate in a terribly
:
banal sexist way against woman as in many comic canvas
: or
pulp-unmentionables.
: I would be unspeakably offended if my being inspired and
:
responding as a woman we're taken as less or as
: officiating moral
offenses just because i am not a
: man?
: It would be unforgivable
to be deemed, sullied and judged
: as i was in the Zen institute as an
reverberation or
: echo of the great grilling rack of the inquistion,
: fired and demoted and deemed worthless or simply of
: sexual
content or intention. This blasphemy of tyranny
: has already caused
me traumatic scarring of which i am
: certain eventhough i am just now
recovering from the
: First Zen Institutes raping and pillaging of my
family
: treasures and GreatGrandfathers lifes work squandered
:
because of this criminal farce.
: It is entirely UN-American and Hillary will certainly not
: allow
it to continue in AFganistan and your work
: gleans magestic
potentional for woman as well. I have
: seen you post that your work
does not involve feminism
: when a Japanese female fan posed the
Question?
: Perhaps? it does not? However, I feel that writng you
: as a woman who is engaged by the way and your
: Girlfriend Anh
writing back only? Gives me the
: impression of some Hassidic
compromise?
: The woman wear the wigs and can pray over there as the
: threat
of sexual composition is always looming askew!
: I have written and
said hello, happy Birthday to Anh and
: sincerly considered her a
personal hero as a vast
: contributor as a model and Administrator.
Anh you have
: never once answered one of my posts on the message
: board yet you write letters to me? I have a difficult
: or
con-pro-fusing time understanding if you are simply
: segregating
female fans as contributors when they have
: commentary on David Macks
art ? If so I am hopelessly
: insulted because when you hugged and
kissed me at the
: convetion i believed you we're sincere!
: I have stopped posting and writing David Mack out of
: respect
for you until I realized this is outrageous
: and sexist. I am sure
this was not your intentions
: only that you enjoy being involved in
every aspect of
: Kabuki, I only ask that if you do so? Please be
: sincere otherwise i feel very tricked and betrayed as
: a fan
and contributor to Kabuki for over 6 years. It
: is ackward and
confusing when you asked me to write
: you and then you do not respond
on the board. Until
: now I have perhaps been ill and hope you will
: understand it is a mysterious cathartic magickal
: matter to
write poems with regards to Kabuki and an
: expression of Art. If I
have not written to you
: exactly the same way as to David Mack it is
because it
: is his mind, psyche and soul of which fans identify
:
and certainly not to threaten you!
: If a person we're to write Freud or Jung ? Wouid his
: girlfriend
or wife respond or interfere in such an
: insincere way. I soppose i
will not write or post ever
: again yet truth is far too often
obfuscated and life
: is indeed short!
: I would be happy to write you personally if only in
: David's
comic book's ? YOu made your personality more
: available ? You are
not just a "girlfriend"
: or Kabuki model i am sure. Connie would
write poems
: and you got a sense of her essence.
: I don't want to hurt either of your feelings, it is just
: that
it is very important to me. My name has been
: listed in Kabuki for
many years I have even had
: stalkers come to my home! Of course 20-20
hindsight
: and i have moved now and i managed to SCARE off these
: ill omened commotions!
: I only hope one day there will
: be a world with more trust, security and above all Kabuki
: ART!
: Sincerely,
: Fumiko