Comments on: The Reveal http://suisekiart.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/ by Mas Nakajima and Janet Roth Fri, 16 May 2008 05:51:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Janet Roth http://suisekiart.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/#comment-231 Janet Roth Sat, 10 May 2008 18:37:59 +0000 http://suisekiart.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/#comment-231 Hi Jesus - yes, the first way is more serene. It becomes a very quiet stone. In that version, we didn't feel it had the quality to be exhibited as a good suiseki. However, we enjoyed it very much for its own kind of gentle, shy quality - and for our memories. You can't really see it in our photos - but the tamari is so deep that you could not cut this stone without cutting through and opening the bottom, so wrecking the waterpool. You would not improve the stone by cutting, so shouldn't do it. -Janet Hi Jesus - yes, the first way is more serene. It becomes a very quiet stone. In that version, we didn’t feel it had the quality to be exhibited as a good suiseki. However, we enjoyed it very much for its own kind of gentle, shy quality - and for our memories.

You can’t really see it in our photos - but the tamari is so deep that you could not cut this stone without cutting through and opening the bottom, so wrecking the waterpool. You would not improve the stone by cutting, so shouldn’t do it.

-Janet

]]> By: jesus http://suisekiart.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/#comment-217 jesus Mon, 05 May 2008 15:42:56 +0000 http://suisekiart.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/#comment-217 Janet, This is another opportunity to think about and meditate. The initial presentation evokes a serene atmosphere, though a bit costrained by the daiza; probably I would have opted for cutting, reducing so the visual weight of the daiza. But doing so, it would have not been possible to redesign the presentation: now the stone looks more free (on the other way, more dinamic), reminding me of a flowing volcano or the wilderness of Scots mountains in autumn. Yes, I must see and think about, Jesus Janet,

This is another opportunity to think about and meditate. The initial presentation evokes a serene atmosphere, though a bit costrained by the daiza; probably I would have opted for cutting, reducing so the visual weight of the daiza. But doing so, it would have not been possible to redesign the presentation: now the stone looks more free (on the other way, more dinamic), reminding me of a flowing volcano or the wilderness of Scots mountains in autumn. Yes, I must see and think about,
Jesus

]]> By: Janet Roth http://suisekiart.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/#comment-177 Janet Roth Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:43:30 +0000 http://suisekiart.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/#comment-177 Andrei - I love your way of seeing this stone, and the way you express it. It's interesting - for Mas, when he is making his artistic decisions it is based strictly on the artistic view of it. How it looks, what the piece "needs" - he looks at line and form and color. Any conceptual or emotional or spiritual reactions only come afterwards. But always when he's finished, I find so much there... dailyartmasomenos - thank you! -Janet Andrei - I love your way of seeing this stone, and the way you express it. It’s interesting - for Mas, when he is making his artistic decisions it is based strictly on the artistic view of it. How it looks, what the piece “needs” - he looks at line and form and color. Any conceptual or emotional or spiritual reactions only come afterwards. But always when he’s finished, I find so much there…

dailyartmasomenos - thank you!

-Janet

]]> By: dailyartmasomenos http://suisekiart.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/#comment-176 dailyartmasomenos Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:42:28 +0000 http://suisekiart.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/#comment-176 Beautiful as always -- thanks for showing the process. Beautiful as always — thanks for showing the process.

]]> By: Andrei http://suisekiart.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/#comment-175 Andrei Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:40:35 +0000 http://suisekiart.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/the-reveal/#comment-175 My train of thoughts while reading and looking. To me, this story indicates a mystical experience. It would seem to me that suiseki is about listening to what things have to say. Now this is not a one-way communication. Stones talk to us. By listening we let them also do something to us. The result is that they change something in ourselves. So we respond and, in turn, we change them. This two-way communication has in my eyes a mystical quality of which this piece is evidence. The cliff in the stone concentrates the living part of it. It is where the stone has changed, It is the story that this stone had to tell to whomever was prepared to listen. It is the story of a break, of an event, of a lost part, of overcoming this pain and looking to the future. It was there all the time, but the message got through when its time arrived. Don't we all carry such marks, and don't we all carry on, and don't we all look for someone who would listen? Thank you for sharing this with us. My train of thoughts while reading and looking.

To me, this story indicates a mystical experience. It would seem to me that suiseki is about listening to what things have to say.

Now this is not a one-way communication. Stones talk to us. By listening we let them also do something to us. The result is that they change something in ourselves. So we respond and, in turn, we change them.

This two-way communication has in my eyes a mystical quality of which this piece is evidence.

The cliff in the stone concentrates the living part of it. It is where the stone has changed, It is the story that this stone had to tell to whomever was prepared to listen. It is the story of a break, of an event, of a lost part, of overcoming this pain and looking to the future. It was there all the time, but the message got through when its time arrived.

Don’t we all carry such marks, and don’t we all carry on, and don’t we all look for someone who would listen?

Thank you for sharing this with us.

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