Sakura d’abril

In April 2025, a year marking the exchange between Japan and Catalonia,
a photobook"Cherry Blossom, Don't cry" by Alba Yruela was quietly released.

Following her previous work, a culmination of ten years of memory,
this new volume emerged after passing through the rupture of the pandemic.

Within its pages, one cannot help
but sense a faint tremor of light, beginning to fill the void.

Centered on the cherry blossom—Japan’s emblematic flower,
long invoked as an image of death—

the book frames the whispered stirrings of love
along side the fleetingness of the moment,
held in a fragile, attentive silence.

This is a photobook that dissolves the boundaries of flowers or culture,
allowing the subtle waves of true-nature to flow and resonate,
a delicate interplay of life and death revealing a seamless unity of being:

Purification of Sakura, Sublimation of Roses.

Cherry blossoms accept death as part of a cycle,
washing away defilement and returning the world to its place.
Roses, in the spirit of Virolai, accept death as a moment of transformation;

Cherry blossoms open a boundary; roses lead beyond it.
Between these two, we stand, witnessing the quiet rhythm of loss and ascent,
where tears dry and return to the earth,
and the suspended breath where earthly sorrow meets transcendent light.