EXPRESSING CREATIVITY: Media Arts - photography, videography, photo collage, etc.

[Cooperix]

Although I agree with Onka in general: artwork is political, the art circle threads offer a place of respite from the storm that is our world. And I am deeply grateful to all who have contributed their images to make this place so full of beauty and creative energy.
Amazing creativity in our sangha...

Gassho
Anne

~lahst~

[Kokuu]

Art is a free expression and cannot be censored. However, individual institutions and organisations can decide what is appropriate for them and what isn't.

You are unlikely to get a racial feminist piece of art into the National Portrait Gallery.

However, that of course begs questions of representation and who and what are being chosen to hang in galleries and public spaces and how they are chosen. My art historian friend Aruna has written extensively about this in respect of the representation of gender and ethnicity and who is doing the choosing.

Here are Treeleaf we make no exclusion based on gender, ethnicity or physical or mental disability or otherwise. There are, however, limits as befits a place of Buddhist practice and those limits, among others, include use of Right Speech and topics which we have found not conducive to peaceful practice, such as party politics.

Apologies for using a few sentences more.

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-

[Onka]

Art is a free expression and cannot be censored. However, individual institutions and organisations can decide what is appropriate for them and what isn't.

You are unlikely to get a racial feminist piece of art into the National Portrait Gallery.

However, that of course begs questions of representation and who and what are being chosen to hang in galleries and public spaces and how they are chosen. My art historian friend Aruna has written extensively about this in respect of the representation of gender and ethnicity and who is doing the choosing.

Here are Treeleaf we make no exclusion based on gender, ethnicity or physical or mental disability or otherwise. There are, however, limits as befits a place of Buddhist practice and those limits, among others, include use of Right Speech and topics which we have found not conducive to peaceful practice, such as party politics.

Apologies for using a few sentences more.

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-

This clarifies things for me in relation to the Art circle Kokuu. Thank you. I still believe that Tai Shi's Poetry is beautifully opaque and playful enough to not be deemed party political.
Gassho
Onka
ST

[Onka]

Although I agree with Onka in general: artwork is political, the art circle threads offer a place of respite from the storm that is our world. And I am deeply grateful to all who have contributed their images to make this place so full of beauty and creative energy.
Amazing creativity in our sangha...

Gassho
Anne

~lahst~

Gassho
Onka
ST

[Meitou]

So returning to the original purpose of this thread, I found another quote by Ansel Adams that I like very much ..

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

These two groups of photos contain some of what that quote from Ansel Adams is suggesting. They were inspired by these words from the lovely book 'ikegana and other Japanese words to live by', by Mari Fujimoto, and attempt to merge ikebana with photography, rather than a simple representation of a flower arrangement.

"Ikebana.. means 'giving life to flowers'.With the aim of capturing a beautiful and natural asymmetry, ikebana creates a space in which the delicate transience of the seasons can be visually acknowledged and appreciated.The constellation of flowers figures birth, growth, decay and reincarnation."

ikebana triptych.jpg

ikebana vertical 4.jpg

Gassho
Meitou
sattoday lah

[Tai Shi]

Gassho
sat / lah
Tai Shi


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[Tai Shi]

Gassho
sat / lah
Tai Shi


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[Jishin]

So returning to the original purpose of this thread, I found another quote by Ansel Adams that I like very much ..

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

These two groups of photos contain some of what that quote from Ansel Adams is suggesting. They were inspired by these words from the lovely book 'ikegana and other Japanese words to live by', by Mari Fujimoto, and attempt to merge ikebana with photography, rather than a simple representation of a flower arrangement.

"Ikebana.. means 'giving life to flowers'.With the aim of capturing a beautiful and natural asymmetry, ikebana creates a space in which the delicate transience of the seasons can be visually acknowledged and appreciated.The constellation of flowers figures birth, growth, decay and reincarnation."

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Gassho
Meitou
sattoday lah

Beautiful.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Cooperix]

So returning to the original purpose of this thread, I found another quote by Ansel Adams that I like very much ..

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

These two groups of photos contain some of what that quote from Ansel Adams is suggesting. They were inspired by these words from the lovely book 'ikegana and other Japanese words to live by', by Mari Fujimoto, and attempt to merge ikebana with photography, rather than a simple representation of a flower arrangement.

"Ikebana.. means 'giving life to flowers'.With the aim of capturing a beautiful and natural asymmetry, ikebana creates a space in which the delicate transience of the seasons can be visually acknowledged and appreciated.The constellation of flowers figures birth, growth, decay and reincarnation."

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Gassho
Meitou
sattoday lah

Meitou,
Your photos always surprise. And that's why they are so powerful. Thank you.
Deep bows

Anne

~st~

[Doshin]

Meitou



Doshin
St

[Jishin]

3 miles away from my house.



Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Meitou]

Thanks Tai Shi and Jishin for these fab photos - Tai Shi, I love these slices of Americana, as someone who has never visited your country, they are fascinating to me. And Jishin, who doesn't absolutely love sunflowers, what an incredible sight.
Thank you all for your kind words about my offerings.
Gassho
Meitou
sattoday lah

[Jishin]

Nice kitty.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Nanrin]

Gassho

Nanrin

Sat today

[Sekishi]

decades of striving in the darkness of the forest floor
now a hole in the sky
unencumbered sun nourishes ferns, trillium, aster, and myriad beings

- Ango 2020, Day 2


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