Distant, 2025, oil on linen, 40.5 x 50.75 cm
The Tao Te Ching (Way of Life), by Lao Tzu, is a book of short stanzas touching on the nature of God.
The lines in some of the paragraphs have resonance for me because it's these qualities that should exist in art, qualities that transcend subject matter. Every painting and drawing I do I try to capture even a little of what Lao Tzu described. Here are 2 examples.
Stanza 4, paragraph 1 -
The way is void
Used but never filled
An Abyss it is,
Like an ancestor
From which all things come
Stanza 14, paragraph 2 -
...
It stretches far back
To that nameless estate
Which existed before the creation
