Maeda's SIMPLICITY

(Less)ons

Half a year left till nirvana.

If I cannot keep up with my own email, I certainly cannot keep on updating my daily calendar. Today I had the fortune of flipping through several months of Dalai Lama-isms in order to extract that which I needed to center it all. In the pile on the left, I put the stuff that I found irrelevant. The smaller pile on the right is that which I found resonance. I'm now going through the resonant pile to reduce it to one or two ...

I haven't been able to post as regularly as I once did in this space. The reality of my Cartier Foundation exhibition is real. And thus everyday I am thinking thinking thinking and sketching sketching sketching and coding coding coding. Art is on my mind.

Thus it may be coincidence, but August 4's Dalai Lama-ism is, "In the interests of everyone, of humanity, the artist has a responsibility to use his medium well." Of course he does make reference to this sentence in the context of making art that is spiritual. I find it odd that in other parts of the calendar he makes the point that religion shouldn't be pushed onto anyone. I take great satisfaction, as a result, that my new artwork pushes no politics nor religion. It's just about nature really. And that's that.

Posted by maeda at August 6, 2005 09:27 PM