Category: drawing
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Calligraphy Quote – “A culture is no better than its woods.”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ftZTpkebY0&w=853&h=480] More calligraphy doodling (the doodling only really happened because I smudged the ink mid-way through). The last line from a poem by W.H. Auden called ‘Bucolic II. Woods.’ “The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country’s soul. A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak…
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Calligraphy and Doodling with Alan Watts
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Annie Dillard and Thomas Merton on Pushing Passed “Good Enough”
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Born into a system of norms set strategically before us, it’s always surprising to be reminded that we are still ultimately at the helm of this process of what we accomplish and what we choose to bring into being.
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Barnett Newman on the Aesthetic Roots of Humanity
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“Man’s hand traced the stick through the mud to make a line before he learned to throw the stick as a javelin.” “Undoubtedly the first man was an artist,” begins a remarkable little speculative essay written in 1947 by Barnett Newman. It proposes that the aesthetic act of wonder precedes the social and utilitarian acts…
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To Imagine the Real
All life is repetitive. Repetitive forms, repetitive behaviors. It isn’t strictly repetitive, for Nature loves surprises. But you won’t find fiddleheads popping out of the ground in December. Springtime calls them back to stage, always with that same quiet mathematical elegance. Of course, the human species is no exception. For all our cultural diversity, technical prowess,…