Shout and Dance

                                                               Robyn Ellenbogen’s painting Shout and Dance

Shout and Dance

All beings walking

Always

Within light

Light that is darkness

The black of black

Luminous

Calling

Aching, being, bliss

Beyond within

Pealing

Gone

Svaha!

12:I:11

John Bailes

First response to Robyn Ellenbogen’s painting Shout and Dance

A Shape of Longing

 Robyn Ellenbogen’s drawing A Shape of Longing

A Shape of Longing

What we want to see is no longer, cannot be.

I grasp the woods, like in thicket.

I see people, like in dream.

Time, distance, shape, perspective: gone.

There is no more.

I stand open in this vision.

Everything so close, enbrambled:

Chaos and line;

Density beyond sight.

Releasing the hand of apprehension:

Perspective once held so dear,

Thus so tight.

Bound:

Not willing or seeming capable to allow;

All things appeared as they should be

Or they were not.

And now I stand here trusting

A release I never asked for

Thrust into the density of this open.

I crawl and I cry.

Letting, I know seeing may not come.

But this longing for the intimacy of

To make, to hold, to touch,

Will never go.

As we float together and apart, always and never

In this world peopled by our

Being,

What part of me are you?

12:I:11

John Bailes

Somerville MA

First response to Robyn Ellenbogen’s drawing A Shape of Longing.

Talk about opening our heart!

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There's n ot much to say except: "Enjoy this!"

I thank my friend Iva Jones for turning me on to these musicians:

Chritina Pluhar - L'Arpeggiata: Via Crucis (Version française)

Lew Welch

What strange pleasure do they get who’d

Wipe whole worlds out

ANYTHING
To end our lives, our

Wild idleness?
But we have charms against their rage—
Must go on saying, “Look,
If nobody tried to live this way
All the work of the world would be in vain.”

And now and then a son, a daughter, hears it.

Now and then a son, a daughter

gets away.

This is a representation of Vimalakirti, more later. I wanted get an idea image of the "personage" out there...

Kandinsky: Curved Line Undulating Freely

Click the url below for the painting and also the rest of the show...

http://moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/online/#works/01/13

This show is incredible. More than worth a whirl on the web page and if in NYC go, go, go...

Vasily Kandinsky (French, born Russia. 1866–1944). Ligne courbe librement ondulée (Curved Line Undulating Freely). 1925

Illustration for Kandinsky’s book Punkt und Linie zu Fläche (Point and Line to Plane), 1926. Ink and gouache on paper, 7 5/16 x 10 1/16" (18.5 x 25.6 cm). Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle. Bequest of Nina Kandinsky. Courtesy CNAC/MNAM/Dist. Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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In 1919–20, Kandinsky wrote a series of articles focused on various facets of modern art. One of these essays, “On Line,” inspired the title of this exhibition. Elaborating on themes broached there, the artist made this drawing and thirty-seven others as illustrations for his 1926 Bauhaus book Punkt und Linie zu Fläche (Point and line to plane), a treatise declaring the three nouns of its title to be the basic elements of art.

Called home and cell: no answer.

Just to say you have a companion.

With that, Master Ma and Dong Shan will come

Wherever and however we are.

Vulnerability!

With Love

Kotatsu