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Tag archives: abstract

Season’s Greetings ❄️

Season's Greetings Blair Thomson 2021

Hope you are keeping well and wishing you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year holiday ☃️ 最近の2021年のアートワークは絵と写真と書道といろいろ。 I’ve been fortunate to practice different styles of Shodo calligraphy, jazzy …

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18 December, 202118 December, 2021Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract, drawing & painting

Happy Valentine’s Day 2020

Happy Valentine's Day 2020
14 February, 202014 February, 2020Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract, drawing & painting

flux – interchanging – equalising

8 March, 201728 July, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract, drawing & painting

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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1 January, 20172 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract

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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5 December, 201522 June, 2020Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: abstract, John Fraser, Kusen collaboration, Soto Zen

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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5 December, 201522 June, 2020Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: abstract, John Fraser, Kusen collaboration, Soto Zen

Spatial trail – neither above nor sideways

15 March, 201528 July, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract, drawing & painting, sketchbook

Tonedown characters part 2

tonedown investigating elements T – S – I – D actions in times present, past and futures – neither the same nor different (zenki)

25 October, 20142 August, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: abstract, journey to nowhere

Artworks and response by John Fraser

Response to images by John Fraser: The eyes are unseen; All the worlds are visible

14 October, 201430 July, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: abstract, John Fraser, Poetry

Tonedown characters

14 October, 20142 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract, journey to nowhere

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