Quiet Thoughts in Tandem

Clarity    Ink, wash & pen  2013

I am a great admirer of the painter Agnes Martin . Her quiet paintings and spare words speak volumes. The following is an excerpt from "Writings"- a  rare series of essays written in the sixties.

"The ocean is deathless
The islands rise and die
Quietly come, quietly go
A silent swaying breath 

I wish the idea of time would drain out of my cells 

and leave me quiet even on this shore".  A Martin

The further I look into Space, the farther away I move from the madding crowd.....

Silence # 2

Untitled    Ink, wash & pen  2013

It's not necessary to continually fill our air, ear or eye-space with noise. Real space is found in the pauses between words. Or, in the quietness between thoughts......

just look for it.  

4-Squared Space

Four-squared Space   charcoal  2013

Abstract painter Sean Scully once said: "A representational painter wants to show the things in the picture. With an abstract painting, what in a sense you're trying to do, is make everything happen at once."

Those words make perfect sense to me. Especially in terms of what's been going on with my work with the Three Wheels Zen garden space.

Like Scully, I'm trying to show 'everything at once', as well as what it means to me.

A whole universe contained within a 4-squared space.

Or Are Not....

Untitled    Ink, graphite, pencil & pen 2013

In a recent conversation with Professor John White (the designer of Three Wheels Zen Garden), I asked him to define space in 20 words or less.....

Untitled    Ink, wash & pen 2013

 and his answer was: "Space is where things are, or are not."

Untitled    Ink, pencil & pen 2013

Where Things Are....

Untitled    Ink, graphite & pen 2013

Sketchbook page

A New Chapter Begins

"Avalanche"     Ink, pen & wash  2013

Note: Due to photographic light refraction on ink surfaces, the original painting will vary slightly to the above photograph. (The original is always better!)

The Palimpsest Works

Movement   charcoal  2013

The Day After  charcoal  2013