We look to the heavens for inspiration, for release, for expansion, for freedom. The sky is also, in its way, a great mystery because its many majestic, mountainous forms are really only vapors in the process of diffusing and aligning in arbitrary ways. The sky is a great improvisation, and these paintings are small improvisations that honor its nature.
Clouds teach the truth about all form because they are ephemeral. Whatever shape they take lasts only a short time before the wind creates another. Buddhist teachings encourage practitioners to view their thoughts and feelings as clouds in the sky: there is no sense in maintaining attachments to impermanent forms or in telling stories about accidental shapes that are always in the process of changing. Instead, one can “rest in a mind like vast sky.” The title of this series, ‘Sky Mind,’ comes from those teachings. |
