Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba
Ev has been busy preparing for the second round of the 8th WAVE Artists Studio Tour, a self-guided event that takes place this Saturday and Sunday (5 and 6 September). She’ll have a selection of recent sculptural works (like this, this, and this) on display, as well as new series of thrown vessels and assemblage jewelery. The Fishfly Gallery in Winnipeg Beach also has some of her works on display (like this and the piece shown above). If you are in Manitoba, please do drop by… if not, you can see more of Ev’s work at What? Clay Art & Curios.
Images above: Third Time Lucky (with detail), a figurative slab-built stoneware sculpture, finished with burnished steel low-fire glazes and iron oxide stain, with found porcelain hand and bifocal eyeglasses; 430mm x 230mm x 545mm high. Ev’s comment: “Beach safety is always top of mind when living in a lakeside community… combine this with the fear of myopic perspective and you have ready-made irony within reach.”
Black Rock City, Nevada
(from photographer Scott London’s fine collection of images, here)
OK, just one more…
This would seem to be a fitting commentary on the stalled-out debate re: universal health-care being undertaken by our rich Southern neighbours (where the mighty[?] U.S. Dollar continues to trump humanity).
I chanced across a beautiful body of pithy illustrative humour by Constantin Ciosu today… much more to see at irancartoon.com.
Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba
So… it’s after a relaxing Friday-night dinner, and a nice bottle of wine, and my Sweetie and I are discussing geo-politics and classical rhetoric (of course :-) and we start reminiscing, and I bring up influential voices from the past (the past we didn’t share)… and we start Googling and YouTubing and somehow we end up with social critic and songster extraordinaire Randy Newman.
Seems not very much has changed since the 1970s, eh? Here’s a performance to an appreciative European audience a full 34 years later.
A young man wanting to find truth goes to see a famous guru. “Master, can you teach me meditation and truth?” he asks.
The guru agrees, and the disciple immediately assumes the lotus posture, closing his eyes and breathing rhythmically to show what he knows. The master doesn’t say anything but picks up two stones from the ground and starts rubbing them against each other. Hearing the strange noise, the disciple opens his eyes and asks, “Master, what are you doing?”
The guru answers “I am rubbing these stones against each other to polish them into a mirror so I can look at myself.”
The disciple laughs,“But master, if you don’t mind my telling you: you’ll never be able to make a mirror of these stones by rubbing them against each other. You can do that forever, and it won’t work.”
“Similarly, my friend,” the master says, “you can sit like that forever, but you’ll never be meditating or understanding truth.”
(as told by Jiddu Krishnamurti)
(sources unknown for top two images; just learned that the “hell” image is by the late Dash Snow [thanks Tim])
A good idea… thanks, Gerald.
