Most mornings I wake up with music playing inside me. It could be any music – from the Brahms Violin Concerto, Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer,” “Ain’t She Sweet?,” “I Could Be Happy With You.” As best as I can recall, rarely repeated, different every morning.

You ask if my paintings are abstract. The word comes from the Latin ab, from, and trahere, to pull. Hence to pull from, to take from. (Similarly, attract comes from ad, towards, and, again, trahere.)

A musician always sees himself as performer – not Musician.

A writer’s concern is to do the work,
but an author’s is to present his self.

With free painting – with subjectless painting – every movement can be a direct expression from the Deep Unconscious. And therefore it can be a direct pointing to the Buddha-Nature.

The essence of healing comes from the healer’s state of Belovedness, his heart-Knowledge that he is loved. His Belovedness translated into Belovingness, to help induce the Blessed state of Belovedness in the sufferer. Only Then can the Healing Power be actuated – by the healer’s Kiss. By his mother’s Kiss.

Enso is a form of zen art, zenga, which focuses on the painting of a circle. It involves considerable discipline, and mindfulness – and mindlessness. The very essence of Zen.

There is a Japanese saying about calligraphy and painting: Izen hitsugo, “Mind before, brush after.” Meaning, to be spiritually attuned before taking brush to hand.

Blake left the womb
crying,
and returned to It
singing.

Art that does not
reveal the Soul
– is artificial.