"When you give people too much information they instantly resort to pattern recognition. The contemporary artist is always seeking new patterns. Which is his task... the indispensability of the artist..." - Marshall McLuhan (interview 70's)
"Men have become the tools of their tools" - Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862)
seeing - gestural
The above red seal, ch'i yûn, implies life-movement. "In unknown world the comprehension create new enlightenment and connection. Like in realm of freedom you are unity of aspiration and truth as an implication of life. You always in illusory state, but its imagery beauty of universe"*: unedited reflection on Buddhist/Taoist expression seals by interpreter, Tsu Tse U, NE China in 1995, when privately studying with registered Gongbi (fine brush) master, Zhang Shi Qing, on the N.Korean border. Art is illustrative, decorative and significantly meditative. A painting without the obvious object is free of that fixation or a subject. Drawing has been about European fine line, sketch and realism.
In 1992 a Beijing painter/calligrapher (& psychologist) Gong Tie Gong collaborated in the Brussels studio employing a wide range of traditional materials and methods in the abstract (Xeiyi: ancient, not modern). A series followed, mainly represented on this site.
Though born and raised on the American West Coast, "The New" has long been a multi-cultural fusion including the use of ultra-refined oriental tools, materials and methods that provide a vast and comprehensive range of expression. An uncannily descriptive aesthetic language reflects what is seen, felt and experienced by artist and observer.
*an excerpt is on home page
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