89 / Burning Questions

Four of my paintings from Burning Questions

a book that Isaac Shapiro & I collaborated on

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64/ names - 4

meditate-03-on IMG_1373

overheard

projection - 06

projection-18

yes, there are some repeats ~ needed to give the
proper file names to a prospective client.

Each combines several photos
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59 / mirrors

I particularly enjoyed the use of mirrored surfaces, in Burma, which

are quite hard to photograph because 2 eyes see differently

to a camera lens, & each small movement

makes something new.. or discloses something older

..the sense of those who came before..

56/ overheard

When I saw this wall in Ayuthaya (before adding the gold)

there was just the speech bubble, 
a piece of plaster in the midst of a large old brick wall; 
am in two minds whether to keep the

change, it was already so eloquent.

Adyashanti

55/ mirror image

Today is another birthday, it was my twin's yesterday,

she is far away, so it's strange to know that the idea of time

being different in another country

means that we can celebrate on the same day..

never could get my head around numbers.

It's a mystery how any thing works..

in awe of how this works

54/ past patterns

Did this a few weeks ago, in the middle of some

old pattern showing up; it somehow helped enormously

~ digital sand play.

It resolved, or became conscious, & passed out of memory

The background photo at right is of mirror tiles in a Thai temple,

a feature in many wats.

52/ vanishing

This one began with a buddha figure vanishing into the

dappled light; later I added very pale flowers

from an earlier image, finally adding a coloured one

around the heart area, which also seems to be the eyes' focus.

The speed of a computer is so helpful

to just seeing what happens by itself.

49/ flowers

Sometimes I like to see how close I can go to "too much",

while trying to suggest a state that's beyond quantifying..

47/ earth touching

More muted, perhaps due to trouble

with my back (taking some anti-inflammatory pills)

The hand is in the earth touching mudra on a Thai statue.

I've done a few versions of both, then I'll keep the best.

interesting 24hr clock idea

45/ dust to gold

Found a quote I'd saved:

Those who turn dust to gold by their

gaze, could they also glance at me

from the corner of their eyes?

Hafiz, I think

it was in my mind while I made this new one

42/ appear-ing

It's a bit of a mystery, how much to say about what

motivates these images. In fact they just happen; initially

the thought was about how things appear to emerge,

all overlaid with travels in asia where time seems to

emerge in amazing layers.

Is it possible to suggest the

Unchanging in an unchanging form?

41/ standing

Sometimes the day seems to influence the light

in what I'm working on, but for this it was sunny when I began,

& grey as I finished; also the light in Laos is different,

that's where these elegant statues are.

Also the screen is different again, super bright.

40/ leafing

leaf-ing meditation

& another .. gold leafing.

36/ meditations

Yesterday Gerhard taught me some new tricks,

I finished off some pictures with them, such fun.

have been doing something similar by hand, more or less,

but these tools suggest new approaches too

the main problem is to not be in front of the screen

all day & night.

however tomorrow is the predicted day of judgement..

damn, I guess that means no power..

weird, really, that one group expects to be 'saved'

for the beliefs they have learnt.

30/ vision

This is the first one I've completed on the Mac, though

the separate photographs date from different trips to Thailand.

Had my eyes tested yesterday, pleased to discover

there is not much change.

29/ exercising

It's really giving my internal memory banks
a workover, to be moving frequently between
the pc & mac, today I lost the one above
through carelessness, had to finish it again.

& this was more complicated than it looks, as the bricks in
the wall are in perspective ~ when I matched those behind
the buddha in another photo, he became elongated.
Will look at it again in a few days, not sure it's finished.

28/ spangled drongo

This came about because I'd fluked a nightlights shot that
resembles notes of music. Put a few different ones
together for the background, with two shots of the same
buddha.

Because a drongo bathed in my birdbath today

27/ faded glory

To me, this is like memory: some details hardly there,
other parts in the foreground for no special reason,
the whole looking like a random cross-reference ~
although this is carefully thought through.. as much as
one can say that.. the synapses spark along that
particular route for who knows why, then some other
part of the brain makes up a story. Isn't it so?

theanimalarium

26/ first from iMac

Although I made these 3 on my old pc,

this is the first time I've posted from the iMac

it's all slower in that I'm getting to know it/am a slow learner

& a little nervous to do the wrong thing

that's why I've made another version of the flaming swords

(protection !).
Red paintings: Sea Hyun Lee

25/ for the Mac

Decided I wanted a very light image for the new desktop,
(though I put it together on my old pc, didn't feel like
fiddling with too many unknowns at one time)
But then I went through some folders, & decided on






this one, instead.
It's so great to see them big on the screen.
Heard a little of Alim Qasimov the other night, 
my favourite singer,
it wont be 'live' for long though.