no5

" stream of our becoming "
by George Marshall

No.5

September 1, 2006

Dear Rin,

I am deeply moved by your two paintings.
“ present ” and “ woe is me “.
They convey a longing for the intangible. They call to us, these
images.
We sit. We cannot grasp it.

Yes I know how it is. It is different to be alone and to be lonely.
Sometimes I am most lonely in a crowd. I can be alone but full or
empty but lonely only if I miss someone or cannot hear what is in the
thoughts and feelings. When conversations are not living ones then
people are lonely…even if they do not know it. I think of you many
times, our lively conversation, never lonely then.
I am enjoying the exchange very much and what to linger your
paintings and your words and see how one thing develops out the
other and how the response comes from me to what your images and
colors and words convey. This creates a stream of conveyance, a
stream of becoming in time. And think now of your image “ the present
“.
May we do that? To stay in the present? To allows things to develop,
to evolve out of the present?

It is the will of the artist to break out of his own skin, out of her own skin,
which does not define out being. To go beyond. In this way I think that
art has been captured by something too alien to it…something that
wants to put a skin around it…and I like the true nature of art, which is
something like another Nature and has its own living creative flow and
so I like to think of my work flowing over to you and of yours to me in a
free way unhindered by anything alien to it…to go out as a form of
communication…as a word between people that cannot be said in
any other way.

PS: Have you ever seen the painting of Henry Miller? He is known as
an author not a painter. But I saw a book of his watercolors at the
library. Very free. He said “Paint as you like and die happy”