Tag archives: abstract
flux – interchanging – equalising
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 photography and drawings, both getting more abstract and playful. Recently I have been running free community art classes in Ruchill and Maryhill in Glasgow for …
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: it is like an arrow, going from past to future, yet past, present and future don’t have equal weight. The past is like an accumulating …
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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 moment. Not the person, the moment. This moment rolls in and out of balance. When out of balance, self, world and linear time all arise, …
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Spatial trail – neither above nor sideways
Tonedown characters part 2
tonedown investigating elements T – S – I – D actions in times present, past and futures – neither the same nor different (zenki)
Artworks and response by John Fraser
Response to images by John Fraser: The eyes are unseen; All the worlds are visible
