Mountain: Keeping Still
Mountains started creeping into my work through collage and old National Geographics. Next thing I knew, they were appearing in the crinkly, thick paintings on rice paper I’d been experimenting with. I recently found a copy of the I Ching in a used bookstore and asked it what kind of artist am I. “Mountain – Keeping Still” was the answer. “Be still when it’s time to be still. Move when it’s time to move. Like this there are no mistakes.” What a comfort that answer was: I could do right by doing nothing! Just get out of the way and let it happen.