What is Essential is Hidden

It's been almost two months since new year began, and February is ending soon.
I still can't believe I'm experiencing winter although this is my third winter in Florida
It gets cold sometimes, but it's nothing for me compare to Boston where I used to live. Most of the days are warm and I often feel like it's already spring or even summer.
I was visiting Japan around new year days. It was also cold there, so I felt so strange when I came back to Florida.
I needed some time to adjust myself to the environment here.

After I recovered, I started to finish "Magnolia" painting which I've been working on since last year. I needed to finish it up with painting the centers of the flowers.

Actually, I was feeling little lazy to paint them - and even haven't decided how I would paint them -  the stamens and pistils.
It was because I was thinking the most important part of this piece is the petals, and I knew I already finished working on the most exiting part.
Yes, I was feeling like the climax was already over...

But once I started to imagine how I could paint them, and to work on it practically, I was completely absorbed into it.
I was so attracted by the shapes, the texture and the colors... and rather obsessed by them. 
There is anther world in the center of the flower. 
Even only petals are too graceful, but there is much more deep inside of them.
The true climax exists here.
And I knew even those graceful petals existed for them.

I suddenly remembered a quote by a Japanese author Hideo Kobayashi.

"What is essential is hidden very cautiously. In nature, and in humans."

It is very true.

I sometimes have this kind of awareness while I'm working on art.
It happens like all of my logics, feelings, memories and experiences are merging together as if the neurons in synapses are communicating each other, and reaching some sort of realization.
This is one of the most enthusiastic moments when I do artistic creation.

I know it doesn't make sense to anyone but me, and it can't be verbalized clearly.
But yes, ....it's true.

"What is essential is hidden very cautiously. In nature, and in humans."