Look! Today I am Dali!


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Trees are a recurring theme in Chuang Tzu. Just as Lao Tzu uses the illustration of the Uncarven Block (P'u), Chuang uses the tree to illustrate the nature of things, purity, and the inherent "usefulness" of all things, challenging our homo-centric view of how things must be made use of and utilized. Here are a couple stories, and an illustration ( Read more... )

Today's illustration from Chuang Tzu matches several passages. Just as the Uncarven Log is a recurrent theme in the Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu repeatedly makes reference to one's mind being in a state like a leaf, floating effortlessly down a river. Interestingly, he usually has Confucius expressing this idea. Well, the "smart" Confucius -- Chuang ( Read more... )

( AT Sketches: I just wanted to get these up in an entry on my journal. I posted all of them a while back on the Nature's Beauty community, but I wanted a place I could point people too, if they asked. So, if you've seen them already, that's all that's behind the cut, just my AT sketches. )

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Today we will have something different.

This past week the most flattering thing that's ever happened to me, artistically speaking, happened. I make a habit of reading the webcomic The Flowfield Unity (http://www.flowfieldunity.transplantcomics.com), which is arguably ( Read more... )

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