Transcience . Transparency . Translucent . Transcendental .
1. “The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, lightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.”
– Ad Reinhardt: ‘Art-as-Art’, Art International, December 196
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2. “In the diligent exercise of mystical contemplation, leave behind the senses and the operations of the intellect, and all things sensible and intellectual, and all things in the world of being and nonbeing, that thou mayest arise by unknowing towards the union, as far as is attainable, with Him who transcends all being and all knowledge. For by the unceasing and absolute renunciation of thyself and of all things thou mayest be borne on high, through pure and entire self-abnegation, into the super-essential Radiance of the Divine Darkness and Light.
– The Pseudo-Dionysius: ‘De Mystica Theologia’
Small Sketchbook Watercolor, SP 2021. no title. 15” x 12” .