I am a visual artist. My practice is with photographs and video (studied painting in school) - my interests span most, if not all, creative fields: words, music, film, painting, photographs; conceptual, avant garde, abstract; galleries, museums, et al...and (of course) I love travel (recently: Spain, Turkey)
I enjoy metropolitan and non-metropolitan things ... cacophony is stimulating, if not over-stimulating, but I have been known to take quiet refuge as well ...
I'm easy-going ...and can find joy in many cliches and aphorisms (although I'm not a big fan of platitudes): mindful of the fact that the only permanent thing is change...
.. I'm witty, warm, generous, creative, compassionate...analytical without being judgmental...
er... resourceful, independent, adaptable, etc etc etc...
um, let's see...I don't believe in fate but I do believe in ironic contingencies...
Currently I seem to spend my time studying and receiving instruction in Buddhist philosophies both exo- and esoteric, meditating, working out how to integrate my inquiry into my practice (and my practice into my inquiry) as an artist, and pondering my inner plinth (or my 'inner other' ~bonus points for getting the reference)-
'Attenuating the fundament'(?), as it were...
(and I find selling myself by piecing together a random list of ubiquitous attributes quite silly, to say the least...)
My Ideal Person:
Bearing in mind that no matter where a relationship leads, sincerity (or right intention) is a good place to start (and seems in astonishingly short supply)- I don't fancy liars or hypocrites, or people who don't know the difference.
I respond well to aggregates with these attributes: intelligence, warmth, kindness, a sense of humo(u)r (especially about yourself), imagination, respect...
Someone with whom I can share both the sublimely intellectual and the incredulously silly...
Someone who actively enjoys communicating, who is literate, who is ok with 'being' as much as 'doing'
... a generosity of spirit, of mind; a conscience, a consciousness, and a pulse.
... an attention span longer than that of a hummingbird; a sensitivity greater than that of a eukaryote...
Someone who, beyond listening, actually pays attention...
Someone (existentially) authentic.
..ps- winking and hotlisting is all well and fine but writing will actually get a response...
... not that anyone actually reads this far: I know there are loads of people on these sites who are interested in 'play', but I am unequivocally not one of them.
The last great book I read
Currently: Alone with Others, Buddhism Without Beliefs,
The Awakening of the West, Confession of A Buddhist Atheist
all by S. Batchelor; The Life of the Buddha (according to
the Pali Canon) by Bhikkhu Nanamoli; Zen Mind, Beginner's
Mind by S. Suzuki; The Dhammapada and the Sutta-Nipata
(buddhist texts) by F. Max Muller... and on the lighter side- Television by Jean-Phillipe
Toussaint; This Longing by Rumi... the monumental Aesthetics
of Resistance by Peter Weiss; The Anthologist by Nicholson
Baker; The Secret of the Hittites by C.W. Ceram
My most humbling moment
moment by moment...every moment I'm alive is my most
humbling moment... and I find love particularly humbling for reasons too numerous to go into here...
The best or worst lie I've ever told
I've never told a lie
If I could be anywhere right now
London...Spain, Portugal, Greece; Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Thailand, Korea... it's a big world!
Five items I can't live without
music, camera, words (books; ideas), breath, mind
Fill in the blank: _____ is sexy; _____ is sexier.
blanks left unfilled by accident are s__y; blanks left
unfilled on purpose are s____r
In my bedroom one will find...
stacks of books, half-drunk glass of water, photographic
gifts from friends... sun in the morning
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