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About Stillness & Waiting Series<\/b><\/span><\/h4>

Volumes have been written about Buddhist art and Zen art.\u00a0 I’m not interested in adding to that conversation, nor am I qualified to do so.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>

In these works on paper, I start from Zen artforms that have moved me for many years.\u00a0 But instead of recreating culturally foreign forms, I am exploring them on my own terms… with visual elements outside any one culture and close to my (perhaps everyone’s) heart and mind:\u00a0 The moon,\u00a0our other planets,\u00a0my own human heartbeat.\u00a0<\/p>

The red seals\/chops in this work were made for me.\u00a0 One is my name-image and the others were carved for me by a young poet\/seal carver in China.\u00a0 These reference the titles\u00a0and related imagery.<\/p>

Senmenzu of Longing (Mercury’s Northern Hemisphere) (I through IV)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/big><\/h4>

Also a series of 6.\u00a0 “Senmenzu” translates from Japanese as “Fan Plane View” and is a particularly lovely paper shape used\u00a0in both Japan and China.\u00a0 It simply\u00a0means that the paper or image is the arc shape of an open\u00a0folding fan.\u00a0 Though they probably started as paintings made into fans, Senmenzu are scroll mounted\u00a0and often displayed in Chado\/Tea Rooms.\u00a0 When I was looking over the photographs in NASA’s Planetary Gazette, I realized that the images of Mercury and Venus were, in fact, Senmenzu…<\/span><\/p>

Shown is the Mercury (Northern Hemisphere) series.\u00a0 Each original photo is skewed slightly to reflect traditional Senmenzu proportions, and printed with a cyan overlay. \u00a0The four together would create a complete topography of the northern face of the planet. \u00a0A small Enso is painted around one of Mercury’s craters and guilded in Paladium leaf. \u00a0Both an inclusion of a visual element from the tradition and my circling of a specific crater… One that perhaps I’m especially longing to visit.\u00a0\u00a0
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Previous Next About Stillness & Waiting Series Volumes have been written about Buddhist art and Zen art.\u00a0 I’m not interested in adding to that conversation, nor am I qualified to do so.\u00a0 In these works on paper, I start from Zen artforms that have moved me for many years.\u00a0 But instead of recreating culturally foreign forms, I am exploring them on my own terms… with visual elements outside any one culture and close to my (perhaps everyone’s) heart and mind:\u00a0 The moon,\u00a0our other planets,\u00a0my own human heartbeat.\u00a0 The red seals\/chops in this work were made for me.\u00a0 One is my name-image and the others were carved for me by a young poet\/seal carver in China.\u00a0 These reference the titles\u00a0and related imagery. Senmenzu of Longing (Mercury’s Northern Hemisphere) (I through IV) Also a series of 6.\u00a0 “Senmenzu” translates from Japanese as “Fan Plane View” and is a particularly lovely paper shape used\u00a0in both Japan and China.\u00a0 It simply\u00a0means that the paper or image is the arc shape of an open\u00a0folding fan.\u00a0 Though they probably started as paintings made into fans, Senmenzu are scroll mounted\u00a0and often displayed in Chado\/Tea Rooms.\u00a0 When I was looking over the photographs in NASA’s Planetary Gazette, I realized that the images of Mercury and Venus were, in fact, Senmenzu… Shown is the Mercury (Northern Hemisphere) series.\u00a0 Each original photo is skewed slightly to reflect traditional Senmenzu proportions, and printed with a cyan overlay. \u00a0The four together would create a complete topography of the northern face of the planet. \u00a0A small Enso is painted around one of Mercury’s craters and guilded in Paladium leaf. \u00a0Both an inclusion of a visual element from the tradition and my circling of a specific crater… One that perhaps I’m especially longing to visit.\u00a0\u00a0 Giclee, palladium leaf and ink on Kitakata paper, 13×19″\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miranda-maher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miranda-maher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miranda-maher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miranda-maher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miranda-maher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miranda-maher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/miranda-maher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miranda-maher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}