The Web Of Life, Love, Suffering And

I've Always Been Fond Of The Idea Expressed In Buddhist Art, That There Are Certain Objects That, Just By Seeing Them, Can Plant A Seed For Liberation In The Individual. That Class Of Objects Is Called "liberation Through Seeing." Certain Buddha Images Are Like That, But If It Were Possible, I Would Like To Find Contemporary Non-traditional Sacred Images. Maybe It Sounds Pretentious, But Most Spiritual Paths Point To The Possibility That We All Can Access The Deep, Absolute Dimensions Of Reality.

I Think That That's Why Artists Make Art - It Is Difficult To Put Into Words Unless You Are A Poet. What It Takes Is Being Open To The Flow Of Universal Creativity. The Zen Artists Knew This.

It Is Very Easy To Take For Granted The Phenomenon That We Are Each Alive, But We Must Try Not To.

It Was 1975. I Had Spent The Year At The Boston Museum School Doing Some Very Bizarre Performance Works. The Last One Included Going To The North Magnetic Pole And Spending All Of My Money.

The Journey Of The Soul Is A Vast, Interconnected Web, A Meshwork Of Beings That Are All Working Out Their Individual Karmas In A Collective Gumbo, Retaining The Special Flavor In Each Bite Of Life. But, The Mystery Of Where We're Going, In Terms Of Whether We're Going To Have A Planet That's Worth Living On After We Finish Abusing It, Whether We'll Wake Up In Time And Stop Ruining The Water, Land And Skies Is A Big Question Mark.