Some new images I have been working on over the last two days. This time I have been adding some colour to the local rock pigment. An intervention between organic pigments and industrially made pigments. The marks began as standard monotype layering of colours, allowing the layers to intermingle and push through one another. Then I add a mark of colour using the spatula I mix the ink with, flowing in a circular motion akin to the calligraphic mark representing the Enso[1].
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Notes:
1: In Zen Buddhism, an ensō (円相 , “circle”?) is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create.
The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and mu (the void). It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics…When drawn according to the sōsho (草書?) style of Japanese calligraphy, the brushstroke is especially swift. Once the ensō is drawn, one does not change it. It evidences the character of its creator and the context of its creation in a brief, contiguous period of time. Drawing ensō is a spiritual practice that one might perform as often as once per day.
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