Flowers of A Hundred Worlds - Kamisakka Sekka, Japanese Rinpa Aesthetic Tradition (Woodblock print book)
This exhibit was stunning to me - how I respond to the decorative content in artmaking! Japanese design, printmaking, textiles, ceramics, baskets: how I value and treasure them all.
These drawings seem miraculous to me, I’m in awe here of their lyric power - the artist’s full sense of the beauty he saw- I know he Knew, and this is what comes of it, the gift - it’s a gift to self, first, and then whatever else comes after. 
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Isamu Noguchi, Fountain How lovely to find this strongly machined and hewn shape cut to make the rock a kind of geode, water gently brimming over its edges and into the ground so slow so slow.  |
It's a huge conflict for me as I paint - that I love the delicate decorative, cherished revelation as much as I love what is expressive and painterly. Of course, it's to be balanced and fused in one's style - I can hope.
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