PRAIRIE WINTER 2021

                                                                         24" x 30"

                                                                    Acrylic on canvas 

                                                                  

from david hinton's China Root

 "Wu-Wei is also a fundamental assumption guiding artistic practice ... For them (taoist artist-intellectuals), this wild calligraphy was conceived as a form of Ch'an practice or teaching: wild empty-mind moving with the selfless spontaneity of Tao or tzu-jan. It was a way of moving there in that generative moment where the Cosmos perennially creates itself, for when a calligrapher first touches inked brush to a blank sheet of silk, it is that originary moment where Presence emerges form Absence. And as the brushstroke traces through its arcs and twists, it is always there at that originary moment, just like awakened mind. It is wu-wei become visible: awakened mind moving with the unbridled energy of the Cosmos itself, Presence tumbling through its myriad transformations. "