FEAST (吉田敦●宋周妍 雙個展)

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After celebrating Palm Sunday (棕枝主日) at St. James Church, seven of us including D.J. Wang, and Daphne, Hans Geiger and Shirley Ke, etc., went to see a remarkable arts exhibition at Sweeten Plaza (順天經貿大樓 B2), in Taichung City. The artists who show their outstanding works are Mr. Atsushi Yoshida and his wife Ms. Jooyean Song, both teaching at Dayeh University (大葉大學).

The theme (or title) of this exhibition is FEAST. In English, the word feast may have several meanings: (1) A feast is a banquet, a large and special meal. (2) Feast can be used as a verb. If you feast, you take part in a feast; if you feast on a particular food, you eat a large amount of it with great enjoyment. (3) A feast is a day or time of the year when a special religious celebration takes place; in this case, it means the same as festival. (4) If you feast your eyes on something, you look at it for a long time with great attention because you find it very attractive.

Today is the Sunday of the Passion, also known as Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday is a Christian movable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. It initiates Holy Week, the last week of Lent. -- Well, the first photo below shows that we were celebrating the feast of Palm Sunday this morning by reading the Gospel in a way that is similar to role-play; but if you look at the other photos following, you'll see how much we were interested in the artistic works presented by Atsushi and Jooyean as a feast. What a wonderful FEAST!