Not Seeing – May 31, 2022
“Not seeing the mountain, being frustrated in one’s quest, can be far more riveting to the imagination than succeeding in beholding what one sought… In Ku His’s classical pattern of Chinese landscape art, the subtle appeal of mountains is rooted in the artist’s skillful craft of omission; the peaks are half-dissolved in clouds. This is […]
Clouds – May 6, 2021
All afternoon, sir, your ambassadors have been turninginto lakes and rivers.At first they were just clouds, like any other.Then they swelled and swirled; then they hung very stillthen they broke open. This is, I suppose,just one of the common miracles,a transformation, not a vision,not an answer, not a proof, but I put itthere, close against my […]
