Sunday, August 24, 2014
Thursday, August 14, 2014
1995: Sunflower: 幽玄 (Yugen)
I had just returned from Chicago in 1995. I had studied for a semester a course in oil painting with the Art Institute of Chicago. I had been influenced by my friend, Justin Ivan Locke, who had shared a home with me for 9 months. Locke is a fine artist whom I had met at Colorado College: his work, which covered areas of psychological content and evocative depictions of natural landscape, always conveyed a haunting atmosphere. I was also influenced deeply by the print-making course offered by Professor Louise Lafond at the Colorado College.
My works are Jungian in origin: I have been influenced by the writing and work of CG Jung since watching my father read his books as a child.
One aspect of this image of the Sunflower would be akin to the Japanese understanding of Yugen:
幽玄
Yugen can be understood through the image of a flower emerging from a stone
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