CONTINUUM OF TIME 時間連續體 (101)

READING （EAST/WEST）閱讀（東西)

Orientation and Significance 導向與意義

Posted November 26, 2021

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Yinyuan Longqi (Japan, 17th century), “The Way of the patriarchs spans a thousand years.” Hanging scroll – ink on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Curatorial record:

In the mid-seventeenth century, Yinyuan was abbot of the Chan monastery Wenfusi in Fujian Province. After the fall of the Ming dynasty, Yinyuan left China for Japan, where he was warmly received by adherents of Zen hungry for new teachings from the continent. Yinyuan (known as Ingen in Japan) and his disciples founded a new school of Zen in Japan, which came to be known as Obaku. Yinyuan was a gifted calligrapher, and he helped to establish a distinctive manner of Obaku calligraphy.

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“Studying the Way” is just a figure of speech […] In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. You must not allow this name [the Way] to lead you into forming a mental concept of a road.

— Huangbo Xiyun (d. 850 CE)

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Emily Carr, Music in the Trees – oil on paper on board (circa 1935).
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Years – little years – what are they? As insignificant as the fact that reversing the figure nine turns it into the letter P.

— Emily Carr (1941)

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