notes from the drifting spaces
Blair’s art notes…
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Remembering the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
It is now ten years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011. We wish to send our warm wishes to all those still very much affected in […]
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Snow Chanting
Walking in Glasgow in the beautiful soft snow chanting the short Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo Sutra 💚❄️ Please join me and friends from the Glasgow Zen Group on Sunday 7th of March @12.30pm UTC+0 […]
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Season’s Greetings スコットランドから❄️
I hope you are keeping well and wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful Christmas and New Year holiday ☃️ With kind wishes for 2021, Year of the Cow […]
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透明観 tōmeikan – tokyo
deepening spaces –inching somewhere, somehow,absorbing and refracting 透 – tō – to be transparent, leave gap, hold light明 – mei – bright/ illumination観 – kan – observation meditation; perceive
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透明観 tōmeikan – photography project
透 – tō – to be transparent, leave gap, hold light 明 – mei – bright/ illumination観 – kan observation meditation; perceive transparent and moving, perceiving interpenetrating and making space, like […]
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Breathing spaces and balance – Japanese & Chinese seal engraving
It was great to have the time to work on 篆刻 tenkoku seal engraving for hansetsu sized calligraphy paper. These hakubun and shubun white and red letter 印 stamps have […]
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Twisting branches, fading spaces – sumi-e ink painting
I worked outside in the North of Glasgow with my friend artist Margaret Kerr, painting in my large sketchbook a 水墨画 suibokuga ink painting (style is also called sumi-e) of […]
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Carving seals and stamping onto calligraphy and artwork
Here is an example of stamped calligraphy (this is kokotsubun shell and bone style). You can stamp on your shodo calligraphy, artwork, poetry or sutra copying, or anything else you […]