This
place can be reached by walking around 10 minutes from a certain subway
station on the outskirts of Tokyo. A town like any other, where there
is nothing new under the sun to be seen anywhere. In such a corner,
a mysterious picture painted by various colors of crayons suddenly
appeared. Watching the picture, the word “land mark” springs to mind
completely out of the blue. Giving directions suddenly becomes easy:
“… go straight and turn right at the building that has a mural painting
painted, probably by crayon, then you find…” This picture will serve
as a strikingly important mark in this too ordinary town.
Children meeting this picture every morning and evening on their way
to schools, will lock it away at the bottom of their memory. And someday
they will grow up and see pictures by Paul Klee, known as the magician
of colors, and will feel a sweet sense of deja vu as if they have seen
his pictures before somewhere.
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