X files

How many x’s do you see? Heading to NYC this morning, working all by myself in the office there, till Wednesday when Christina will be arriving to help me with the opening encounters for Capezio — all day. Thursday night I’ll be heading to Miami, to...

Home, the metaphor of the world.

Home, the metaphor and global warming. What message, found? Walking around meditations of world-warming, place, home. And where the heart is, shall be… I can relate to this. And I can pretty much relate to everything that Mary Oliver offers. I’ve...

the Shell, the Starfish and the Whorl

For about a month, actually, maybe a half year, I’d sorted aside a collection of cups that piled up in a pyramidal arrangement at my house. I’ve got one house, and it’s not in Seattle, it’s in the San Juans. And that’s where I live,...

The ring of bone.

For maybe some 25 years I’ve been collecting zenga. These are the paintings of Zen masters. They are of the haboku style, which is the most captivating, to my aesthetic, which is called “broken ink”. It’s about saying something in nothing....

stonestacking 7/22/06

There’s something simple to the concept of the balanced stone, what can be, what can line up, what balance there might be. I’ve found this one thing. That the more you balance, the more you sense the balance. That is — balance more, and more is...