After a show is hung is a great time to reflect on what the
paintings are saying. With these paintings, as I said, I didn’t really know where they
were taking me, so now I'm finding that I’m learning a lot by listening to
them. I’ve been thinking about the ground. It is literally the ground—looking
straight down at it from a satellite. And the regular patterns are grounding, as is nature for humans.
And then there is another level, which is “the
ground” in Buddhism. From Kuntuzangpo’s
prayer:
Everything
— appearance and existence, samsara and nirvana —
Has a
single Ground, yet two paths and two fruitions,
And
magically displays as Awareness or unawareness.
So we make our own experience. The ground is there with all
of the material for us to put together: emotions, interactions, jobs, people,
good drivers, bad drivers, grumpy or friendly store clerks, capsized sailboats
or smooth sailing, good weather or bad. It’s up to us to interpret according to
our beliefs and to structure our experience into pleasure or pain.
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