[MD] Nothing is something

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>:

> At 12:03 PM 9/8/2007, you wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Quite by accident I happened to run across the following:
> >
> >"Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it." ---
> >
> >Huang Po
> >
> >No wonder it's hard for some to grasp the concept of  Dynamic Quality. If
> >we think about it, we lose it.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Platt
> 
> Hi Platt,
> 
> Good point.  But what would it be like to experience Dynamic Quality 
> 24/7?  Just asking.  Oh, did I miss it?
> 
> Marsha

Hi Marsha,

Hard to go 24/7 without thinking unless in a coma. But, when we paint -- ah,
something close to DQ happens. My favorite description of this is from 
Winston Churchill:

"Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting
the body, more entirely absorbs the mind. Whatever the worries of the hour or the
threats of the future, once the picture has begun to flow along, there is no room for
them in the mental screen. They pass out into shadow and darkness. All one’s mental
light, such as it is, becomes concentrated on the task. Time stands respectfully
aside, and it is only after many hesitations that luncheon knocks gruffly at the door."

Or, consider when we paint how we sometimes focus on painting the space between
objects where there is nothing, but in painting the nothing something appears,
like out of DQ nothingness the world is created. 

At least, that's what I think -- but I probably missed it :-)

Platt


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