Re: Bahiya


brian mitchell wrote:
_cloud wrote:


brian mitchell wrote:
Déjà_Fu wrote:

You know, I think you published your website
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/bmitchell/ for the
first time the other day and I read all that you'd
put there...

I know you're a voracious reading machine, but I'll take that as a good
sign. They're all fairly old. I do some weeding as they go up but they
have to fend for themselves.


here is 12 north-indian yantras arranged un-chronologically on the
page. I bought them in 89 in udaipur but i dis-possessed of them for
good in 2003. Its a very strange story but im not going to tell it
here, however i still have the images as you can see. Hope you enjoy
them moore then you enjoyed the tibetan thankas...

It probably isn't clear enough that that piece tries to use, in text
form, many of the formal elements of a thangka for its own structure and
is therefore just as much of a homage as a critique.

thanks for telling. I didnt see it.

That's my overall attitude to much religious art. I adore Early and
Renaissance church music, Lassus and Palastrina, et al., and much
religious painting from the same sort of period, but in the end the
weight of symbolism tends to capsize the craft, for me.

i dont care so much about the reading of art. im more concerned about
the music of the colours. Have you ever been sitting in front of a
large "mono-chromatic" canvas? I posted some text from a dead artist
called Ad Reinhart, he spent hes last 10 years painting black canvases
and then he killed himself. red on blue on yellow on blue on red and a
little green perhaps and its black. depending on quality of pigment and
lightness of stroke and drying between layers and temperature and brush
and the rest of the universe. no symbolism, no "craft", no reading...
just a shimmering black presence...
People following him tried it out with a ´richer´ palette but none
have even been close to him. The amount of accumulated energy trapped
in the ´black´ is tremendious. Its very serious art. Maybe Blinky
Palermo balanced him with a complementary lightness. Hes second to Mr.
Reinhart. gone too. Joseph Beuys described his work as being ´light as
the breath´,


I believe that all religion, philosophy, science, are ways the human
mind describes itself, sort of. And I admire (to the extent I can
understand them) all the serious efforts at depiction. Here's a
statement I pretty much agree with:

"Nature is a mirror. All we see is a reflection of the sun. All we
understand is our own minds reflected in nature. All, then, goes back to
the mind and its surfaces...

it doesnt make much sense to me.


The thing seen is *there*, but is in itself unknowable except as a
mirror reflecting our spirit, psyche, soul..."

ok.


So in the end I tend to prefer those illustrations of the psyche which
are freer and less symmetrical and purposeful.

so you know what the pshyche ´is` to such a fullness that you know an
illustration from a not illustration? would you consider it possible
for a human to make something that was not a reading of something and
thusly not `illustrative`? and if so, would it then ´be´ the
´pshyche´ or would the ´pshyche´ simply be absent then? is the
premiss for the presence of an illustration that a personal maker is
behind it? could a pebble on the beach be an illustration of something
other then itself? what would happen if you saw something without
mental inference? could van goghs ear grow back on then? never mind, im
just kidding:)



They are painted
with mineral colours around 1850, and this is the first time the images
reach publicity. After you have watched them, please bow, out of
respect for the makers. Blessed be those who can make beauty like
this...

Thank you. I did enjoy them and am happy to bow. It must have been
difficult to part with them. Did you acquire them to *use*, as specific
aids to meditation, or simply for their beauty?

both i guess:)



brian mitchell


http://www.adichotoma.blogspot.com/

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