| [March 17 2009] Dear Rin, What a happy relief! What you say about your painting leaves the viewer free to explore their own mental and emotional world. That is a great liberation. Bees do swim in the air earthworms swim in the soil and people in imagination; then what do fish do? fly in the sea! Wishing you well on your exams, Many Blessings, George |
| [March 17 2009] Dear George, I am writing this to you because I got some sense that you are a little concerned about how I received your mail. If so, I thought,it must be uncomfortable. George,I enjoy your writings very much. It is such a pleasure to know you are alive bubbling somewhere in this ocean.Remember that nothing can weigh me down but myself. I have an experience that my client asked me the meaning of the painting I made,which she was interested. I said "I really don't know what my painting means to others, and I have nothing to do with it." She showed some frustration and said, "Don't you think artists should have responsibility for what they are doing?" I thought for a moment, then said, "No...I wish I could, but that is not how it works." People take what they want or can. It does not mean I don't care about the consequences from my actions.(I actually have a great interest in them!) Love&Peace, Rin P.S.I am facing the exam(midterm) this weekend. So I am swimming in a shallow like a busy honeybee(ops.. honeybee can't swim?) Love&Peace Rin |
| [March 17 2009] I remember too that I can also be light. The Butterfly Man. This has been a ponderous winter for me, but Spring is just around the corner. I hope I have not weighed you down too much. I'm sorry if I have been frustrating. ""!"" ""!'''' ""!"" George |
[March 16 2009] Dear Rin, Thank you for telling me. I have always been full of the maya. All of my life I have heard the refrain: Face Reality. And my question has always been, which direction do I turn to face it? And what does it look like? How will I recognize it when I see it? I believe in Truth, but the other is so strong in me. The bubbles rise up, repression does not help, I have to let them go their way. Carl Jung recommends hard work. I did that until my body was broken over it. I don't know that it helped at all. For this reason painting is very natural to me and I also blow a little horn, a harmonica, I like this so much because the bubbles pop as soon as I blow them, but the paintings are still here and I wonder what wind will carry them away. Part of the reason I like you so much is your wonderful and colorful imagination and your means of expressing it, but at the same time I recognize that you are a more balanced personality than I am and I admire that too. Imagination is a part of the whole human character. It is one phase. Maybe I have too much of it. What I attempt to do is develop it, to direct it into meaningful activity, to bring some thinking into it and hopefully beauty. To me beauty is meaningful. And I cannot live without hope. Hope is what keeps me going. Rin, the depth of your thought and of your experience is a great attraction for me. It is deeply satisfying for me to ponder the meaning of what you say or the quality of your images. When I say I wonder this is a positive statement. It is just through such an experience that hope is born in me. I am sorry that I am sometimes hard to find. The way that I am in is a labyrinth. I do not try to be confusing or mysterious. Sometimes I see things from one direction and sometimes from another. I read a lot. I want to know how other people see things, and I try to listen and to know how it is with other people, so my mind is working this way and that way. I know sometimes you are busy, that you are occupied with a number of things and I am grateful that you have some time for me. Thank you. Love and Peace, George |
| conversation March16~ March 17 2009 |