--- In [email protected], "Ingegerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a nice story, Unc. And I agree, it is > teachers everywhere.
Everywhere. Earlier I talked about the spiritual teachers one finds on the street here in Paris. My teachers today are not even human. They are a series of paintings created by an artist friend of mine, and the music that accompanies them. The combination moved me so deeply that I'm writing a multimedia presentation about them. My friend Laurel has an interesting creative style, one that appeals to me. She starts with an empty canvas and an empty mind, just as Keith Jarrett sits down at the piano for one of his solo concerts with absolutely no idea of what he's going to play. She doesn't have the form or content of the painting in mind when she begins. She just begins. And slowly the painting emerges. When it does, it often has 20 or 30 other paintings underneath it. The other paintings are not visible, except as underlying texture, but they are essential to the finished painting. Without these passing, inter- mediary paintings, the final painting would not be what it is. The music comes in when my friend has to actually name the paintings for an exposition. They don't have names while she is working on them. But she listen to music while painting, and so lately she has taken to naming the paintings for the song or piece of music she was listening to while creating the work of art that most completely captures the nature of the final piece. In her latest exposition last weekend, she played the music during the vernis- sage, so that patrons could view the paintings while listening to the "soundtrack" that goes with each painting. It's a potent combination. It really works. So today I got up early, walked through the Champs de Mars to the marché, bought some vegetables, and then settled myself in the first of what will be many WiFi cafés to do some creating of my own. What I'm going to do is meditate on each painting while listening to the song that goes with it, and write whatever comes to me. The page in front of me is as empty as Laurel's canvas is when she starts a painting, as empty as Keith Jarrett's music stand is when he sits down to play. It's a little scary, trying to create like this, with no plan and no clue as to what you will create and whether it will work or not. But when it *does* work, the payoff is enormous. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
