The vivid imagination and the sharp observation
of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use
of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to
express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range
of human emotions from
awe in the presence
of the numinous to the
feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work
of the lecture room), not consistently,
of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one
of the products
of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers
of the Reformation examples
of Biblical preaching.
«My most persistently recurring thought is to work in a scope as far - reaching as possible; to
express a
feeling of freedom in all its necessary ramifications — its
awe, beauty, magnitude, horror and baseness.
In abandoning straight lines for these exclusively curvilinear forms, Aoki attempts to evoke a
feeling of spiritual tranquility and
awe in her viewers, and to
express the important contradictions
of her contemporary time.