Virtual Dimension Leonardo da Vinci × Virtual Dimension Yuma Muranushi "About Water" [Interview Project Part 3, First Half] Talking about the Power to Create Form

My third visit was in the morning. The rain from yesterday had stopped, as if it had never happened, and the sky was clear. As Suguri climbed the stairs, the old man was already sitting at his desk. On the desk were a new stack of paper, and then—a glass pitcher.

"Today, I promised we would talk about water," said Leonardo da Vinci.

Act 1 - Leonardo da VinciのPitcher

Leonardo  Yuma, please sit down. First, I’d like you to take a look at this water pitcher today.

Murakami  ……A water pitcher, is it?

Leonardo  That's right. I am Yuma. I have observed water for the longest part of my life. Perhaps longer than I have observed paintings, or anatomy, or flying machines. I watched water for sixty years. Yet, I will die knowing almost nothing about it.

Murakami  ... without understanding anything.

Leonardo  This isn't false modesty. I genuinely didn't understand. Water has no shape, yet it creates shape. It doesn't assert its own form, yet it dictates the shape of everything it touches. It swirls, it waves, it erodes rock, it carves plains, it nurtures crops, it destroys cities. When I talk about water, only then can I admit I was a child.

Murakami  I see...

Leonardo  I used to call water "nature's vehicle." Il vetturale della natura, I called it. All of nature's changes come riding on water. Without water, nothing in this world would be moving.

Act II — The Power to Shape

Murakami  Maestro. As I listen to your words, I feel as though you've accurately pinpointed the core of my theory.

Leonardo  I see.

Murakami  I’ve always described the layers of the Virtual Dimension iD—which I discussed in Episode 1—as “the place where the power to create form resides.” The “force that strives to be a vortex” in a vortex, the “space before a painting is drawn.” —The moment the Maestro said, “Water is nature’s vehicle,” it dawned on me.That the iD I speak of might refer to the very same thing as the water the Maestro spoke of.

Leonardo  ...The same thing.

Murakami  Yes. Though it has no form, it dictates the form of all it touches. Though it makes no claim, it moves. Water may be iD itself, exceptionally appearing in the real dimension.

── Leonardo holds the water pitcher up to the light. ──

Leonardo  Yuma. Late in life, I finally realized. I wasn't the one painting the water. The feeling that the water was letting me paint it always remained. Water is also the most active of the paints. Water wasn't on the painter's side; it was on the painting's side.

Part two is here

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