"At 75 I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am 80 you will see real progress. At 90 I shall have cut my way deeply into the mysteries of life itself. At 100 I shall be a marvelous artist. At 110 everything I create, a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before." - Hokusai (1760-1849) The Great Wave
Funeral to pagoda ...
It says nothing.
It reveals deep dark silent secrets, heart pulsating memory.
It is a short string of letters with blank white face spaces in places. It says nothing.
Nothing is filled with _________ . (fill in the blank)
You are blank. You draw a blank. The blank is created by your subconscious dream machine.
Eye - mind - hand - heart. Your machine is fully functioning and capable of emitting highly charged radioactive electrons.
You are a spinning swirling mass of electrons existing in space.
Space is empty. You are a vacuum in space filled with absolutely nothing.
I have nothing to say and I am saying it.
There is no final exam or grade. However, the elemental particle grade may be a little warped in space places so please watch your step near edges. Nothing is clear.
"We are all born mad, some remain so." - overheard on a Chinese bus filled with pigs going to market.
Mandalay, Burma
My life dance is ambiguity, acceptance, independent detachment and creative imagination.
Dance is isolated yet cooperating and independent. I believe in the magic of dance.
When you dance for a fleeting moment you feel alive.
What do I see? I see a circle of movement, a connected unity, language in space. There are five rhythms in dance.
You start with a circle. It’s a circular movement from the feminine container. She is earth.
Then you have a line from the hips moving out. This is the masculine action with direction. He is fire.
Chaos is next, a combination of a circle and line where male and female energies interact. This istransformation.
After chaos is the lyrical. A leap. A release. This is air.
The last element of dance is stillness. Out of stillness is born the next movement.
I’ll dance until I die.
What is life?
Dance.
Ma is a Japanese word which can be roughly translated as "gap", "space", "pause" or "the space between two structural parts." The spatial concept is experienced progressively through intervals of spatial designation.
In Japanese, ma, the word for space, suggests interval. It is best described as a consciousness of place, not in the sense of an enclosed three-dimensional entity, but rather the simultaneous awareness of form and non-form deriving from an intensification of vision.
Ma is not something that is created by compositional elements; it is the thing that takes place in the imagination of the human who experiences these elements. Therefore ma can be defined as an experiential place understood with emphasis on interval.
See Wikipedia for more on this concept, and try to experience ma daily in your life.
— Shin Noguchi
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