James Lee Byars: The Perfect Kiss
(c)image: M HKA
If you don’t wash your own you stay dirty, 1960
Epreuve
, 25 x 17.5 cm
typewritten on Japanese note paper
"I think that the Shintoism has been very interesting to me, the Shinto religion, I think it’s one of the most mysterious rituals I have ever experienced. The Noh theatre was very important to me. The writings of great poets like Issa or the paintings of great priests or such things as I mentioned: "like a dream, like a vision, like a bubble, like a shadow, like dew, like lightning.""
From: James Lee Byars / Antwerp 18 April-7 May 1969, Jef cornelis, First broadcast: VRT 1, 28/11/1969