[MF] Dharmakaya Light

[Muzikhed at aol.com]

Follow-up For those who read my last post re my father's painting - ("the  
Prospector")
 
I visited my dad today, and asked if he remembered when he painted it, and  
what inspired it.
As I expected, he couldn't remember any thing inspiring it - but that he  had 
at the time taken an interest in Chinese landscapes, with the steep rocks  
and misty atmosphere, blues & greens.  I said the man looked  Western though, 
the western hat, almost cowboy.  He agreed.  Yeah, he  intended that.    He 
remembered he was experimenting with getting  gray - not from black and white 
pigments, but instead from combining  colored pigments to make gray.     
 
 
He couldn't remember exactly when he painted it, but after he went to art  
school in the late 40's, so about 1950.  Also he described stretching  his own 
canvases, ordering his own pigments from some store in New York City,  grinding 
the pigments, and mixing with linseed oil to make his  paint. 
 
 
Interesting.  He put a cowboy in a Chinese painting, put a special  light on 
the guy, but it didn't MEAN anything to him that he can recall.   Just playing 
with the pigments.  
 
 
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Thanks again, to Lorenz for the assistance, & to all for all the  interesting 
input on this topic.
 
 
Ted C 
 
 
p.s. to Kevin - thanks, yes, I'm normally comfortable with  solitude.  In 
fact it may be my comfort with solitude co-evolved with  my 'lonely' position.    
 Good to hear from you.
 
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