notes from the drifting spaces
Blair’s art notes…
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Season’s Greetings 2017
Have a super duper 2017 and all the very best wishes for a peaceful holiday. Creatively 2016 has been really varied, and has seen work on various visual projects, particularly […]
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Evolving photography works
Working with nature, plus my own ‘sculptural’ props and my trusty old nikon dslr, and recent smaller digital camera, I’ve been going on to develop various series of photographs and […]
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The light will not break – Kusen Collaboration with John Fraser
John’s Kusen Book Of Serenity, Case 36: Master Ma Is Unwell The Case: Master Ma was unwell. The monastery superintendent asked, “Master, how is your venerable state these days?”The Great […]
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Beyond Kyoto on the Nishiyama mountain trail
off the beaten track, drawing through the dense foliage impenetrable undergrowth seeking colour and light blasting – near the magical ponpon yama hills
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Body of the Ground – Kusen Collaboration with John Fraser
John’s Kusen No. 91 “Those who fall to the ground get up relying on the ground” Interdependent origination is difficult for us because we have an unexamined idea of time: […]
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Momentary State – Kusen Collaboration with John Fraser
John’s Kusen Zazen is often called the mountain still state, the balanced state. What we need to understand is that the state is momentary. It is a quality of this […]
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Windswept Carn an Tuirc and Glas Maol
waga iho wakoshi no shirayamafuyugomorikouri mo yuki mokumo kakari keri my Koshiwhite mountaincozy winter denice and snowoverlaid by clouds Eihei Dogen The voice of the valley is endlessly preaching.The colour […]
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Through Discord and Harmony – Glasgow School of Art Fine Art and MFA Degree Shows – Part 2
(article continued from previous post) A vaguely familiar and catchy game type tune pulled me into an installation piece, ‘THE PURGE’, a joint work by three artists Chitra Sangtani, Lewis […]