Mindfulness With the Brush

by | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog, Learn SUMI-E, Thoughts on Art

      “Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how ending become beginnings” Tao Te Ching   As we go through our day, we experience life through memories and anticipations, through judgments and analysis. Life does not happen in the...

Seeing For The First Time

by | Sep 18, 2012 | Blog, Learn SUMI-E, Thoughts on Art

“Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”  Rabindranath Tagore   Imagine you are just born, or maybe you just arrived from another planet and you see a...

Letting Go

by | Aug 26, 2012 | Blog, Learn SUMI-E, Thoughts on Art

  “Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties”  Gail Sheeh   The artist spends years  learning skills and techniques and through trial and error, develops a unique language of expression. This requires devotion and many hours of work....

Without Words

by | Jul 30, 2012 | Blog, Learn SUMI-E, Thoughts on Art

  “Having opinion is closing yourself from seeing the life’s full potential”. Aristotle As soon as one puts a name or explanation to anything, one blocks it in that space and stops all of its other possibilities. Words are man’s main method of...