{"id":47163,"date":"2018-04-21T07:13:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T13:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=47163"},"modified":"2018-04-21T07:13:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T13:13:47","slug":"see-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=47163","title":{"rendered":"See"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Slate sky behind snow loaded lodgepole pines,<\/p>\n

Scraping blades scritch, push, push, push<\/p>\n

While more white falls, softening the edges.<\/p>\n

Our house has a white roof, like me.<\/p>\n

\"20180327_094904\"Find myself leaning into a favorite phrase of Bill Schmidt’s, “See what you’re looking at.” It’s a mantra now as I drive in the mountains, trying to see their essence. What about their shape, their altitude, their rock, their trees tell me, this is a mountain? Close looking is a skill, a hard to develop one since distractions of all kinds, a key this-moment-in-time issue, lead us away from direct experience to mediated experience. Close looking, like the close reading of poetry, opens up the unseen, the unexpected.<\/p>\n

As I continue to develop my sumi-e skills, I’ve decided I want to focus on only a few things: mountains, Hebrew letters, Tarot major arcana, and objects I’ve used and love like chain-saws and axes, garden tools, bee equipment, maybe dogs, too. I plan to seek what I understand is the central objective of sumi-e painting, expressing the essence, the soul of an object rather than aiming for a Western representational rendering. Good thing, since I don’t have the patience to attend an atelier like my friends Lonnie and Stefan Helgeson.<\/p>\n

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