Facets of a Diamond – Blog
Verlaine counseled Debussy that “nothing is more precious than half-light in which the undefined and the precise meet … What we want is nuance not colour – the nuance that weds the dream to dream.”
Yes, I take color photographs – very many. For the color and its reality. But especially for portraits, I greatly prefer
Issa wrote that it does not matter what you say to a dead tree.
Of course, not what you say, but Where it comes from.
And, having photographed – that is to say, intimately related to – so many apparently dead trees, I have come to believe that, in their own way, they are alive. As sculpture
Give up the world of suffering!
Come, come to your Muse of Love.
I will help you along the way with instances of Beauty.with apologies to Issa
(trans. Sam Hamill)We should be able to go into any art museum, look around and exclaim, “Buddhas, Buddhas, Everywhere!” Not just the paintings but, inspired by them, all the people.
It has been said of Emerson that he regarded every moment as Epiphanic. So he would have loved, would have felt loved, by any painting.
But we non-Emersons need
It could be said that if I first find my Soul I can then find my mother’s – and others. Or, if I first find hers I can then find mine – and others.
I prefer the second way, for it seems altruistic – especially if we primarily find her
“Scattered flowers are gone forever.”
— Issa
(trans. Sam Hamill)As, too, my paintings.
Gratitude is the Soul at work.
So whatever you did for the grateful sufferer, basically, it was healing.
Our basic task in life is to come to Know our mothers as the Mother of Love, to live at last in the state of Belovedness. Not that she, in reality, needs to change, but rather that we need to change our inner image of her.
At the deepest level,
The more the creativity is altruistic,
the more is it coming direct from the Muse.