Zen and the art of Caroling shows most directly in ink paintings. Here are several. The darker background is paper towel. The lighter background is handmade rice paper. I ground an ink stick on a stone with water and applied with a tapering brush. Often short inscriptions, like haiku poems take place, too. The idea is to become at one with the subject and express it all at once. In 1958-1960, I learned from the early Zen Buddhist Chinese painters Liang Kai, Mu Chi, and Ying Yu Chien, as I worked on my MFA thesis. It was "The First Zen Buddhist Painters and Their Relationship to Contemporary Art". See the Turtle for the antithesis, realizing in 2001. Descriptions, enlargements, and more to come. See also Mama and the mini-moons.
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