Thursday, November 5, 2009

My Walking Neighbor

asked how I can be both in the moment, and thinking about the moment. Thinking about the moment in the moment does seem to be a contradiction, almost as if thinking is outside of the life game. So "I think therefore I am" might be "I think therefore (for the moment) I am not."

Monday, November 2, 2009

Variation 4 of Single Head



She asked how she could read my pieces without a quote. When I hear questions like that, my impulse is to never "illustrate" another quote because I want my pictures to speak for themselves. Then I think of what Robert Frost said when asked what one of his poems said, "do you want me to tell you in other and worse language?"

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Variation 3 of Single Head



Woman Crossing Street

Yesterday at a stop sign I watched a woman walk across the street. I saw the dance between the street and the woman as they separated and then came back together. And yet I was surprised that I couldn't sense any weight to her.

We don't see weight. We don't see anything beyond what is there. Then we start adding what we know and we are suddenly not seeing anymore, but caught in our preconceptions.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Back at It



So I finished the 90 or so drawings for a book and want to take a break before I go back to make them better.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Ego?

I had a strange experience the other day. I was in a small town in Texas... one that I had never been to. There were recognizable things all around (human beings, cars, stores, streets). I never had imagined that this town existed. Nor that it existed without me! It was such a shock that it had been operating without me, or any knowledge of me, and then I wondered what else existed without me. The idea of my world changed as I realized that similar worlds existed outside of me and my consciousness.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Last shot before dark

Rust at Sunset

Setting Sun 6

Setting Sun 5

Setting Sun 4

Setting Sun 3

Setting Sun 3

Setting Sun 1

Water at Refinery

Battleship Texas 1914-1946

Stonehenge in Pasadena TX

Tesla Tower?

Electricity

No Entrance

Not Art

Reflections on Talks on Buddha's Lists

During a recent Appamada Intensive our students gave talks on Buddha's lists. Here are my reflections on their talks.