Ep. 14 – Aesthetics and Mystical Vision
Alan Watts Being in the Way
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The Chinese Painter
The chinese make full use of the paper. We tend not to, especially in our more conventional style. If he drew a spray of bamboos on a rectangular surface, he would put them right over to one side and then he would vitalize the empty space. He might bring that out with a few hints,. just a single line, thin line, indicating a avelet, a ripple. Then at once that whole blank area is alive. A zen monk liked to paint by drinking lots of sake wine. And when he was sufficiently drunk, he would dangle his hair in ink and then slush it right downo n a strip of paper.
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