Studio: Disposable Camera

looks so grungy...

photoshops

yo

in progress paintings:



Getting work ready to hang for Homegrown show in March. And learning that building my panels before making the painting would have been much easier.

Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art

Nowhere from Here by Jacquelynn Baas

"...'of something limitless, unbounded'. You experience what you are perceiving as you; or, you experience yourself as what you are perceiving." p.21

"'And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time.) (T.S. Eliot 'Four Quartets: Little Gidding') p.25

"it doesn't really matter whether illumination comes from looking at art, or just a leaf." p.26

Sip My Ocean by Mark Epstein

"The combination of focused concentration and open, non-discriminating awareness is one that many artist find essential for the creative process. Not that they do not also make judgements and comparisons; think, plan, or evaluate; or strategize about how their works fits into various competing ideologies. But there is something in the internal dynamics of the creative process that thrives on this kind of attention." p.31-32

Upper West Side Buddhism by Arthur C. Danto

"More metaphysically, I might speculate that he was tracking his lonely path through the Void" p.49

"By finding and following the Way, everything can be achieved without effort." p.51

"The beatuy of Zen was that there were no sacred texts and no special practices." p.51

Shaping the Unbounded: One Life, One Art by Kay Larson

"Joy with end. A mind without boundaries. Action without limits. Wondrous!" p.61

"'No barrier' is simply being." p.62

"You have to present nirvana first as a work of art, and that allows people to percieve it and opens up the possibility that they can experience it for themselves. Who would want to seek nirvana if they couldn't imagine there was such a state of freedom from suffering?" (Robert Thurman) p.65

From an adventure: Disposable Camera

From Oct. 3: Disposible Camera

the last week

my computer will no longer read my camera...or maybe its the other way around...they are both water damaged...anyway, it made uploading difficult.
sorry about the lighting

slush

Winter Session begin

Nothing i have done so far has been particularly exciting; i have basically cleaned the studio and primed some stuff. but here are some images of what will come to be paintings.
The first is about 3'x3', flat black right now. Spirals to come.
The second are 4 5"x5" panels, to be Mandelbrot paintings. Probably acrylic.
The third is 11 feet long and 4 feet tall.
I also bought the biggest book on the Universe over break. Its massive and the images are amazing.




(ps-1 year ago, Vietnam....strangely enough, still feels like yesterday)