A man must have chaos within him to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Humans have sought perfection through many forms in both the past and present, and yet our tools continue to both betray our desires and describe (celebrate) our nature. It seems that the more perfect one thinks they are, denying human nature, the more flawed they are in actuality.
He who thinks he knows, does not know. He who knows that he does not know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know, and not to know is to know.
~ Lao Tzu from Tao Te Ching
ABOVE: The Dance @ 22, 2001, enamel and varnish on birch plywood, 18" x 23".
Repaired tea cups used in a Zen tea ceremony are more prized than new cups; not for the monetary reason of the gold used in the seams of the cracks to "glue" them back together, but because the mysterious has collaborated and is manifest in the shapes of the broken bits. The gold is used as a frame embracing defect... not defect = bad, but defect = perfect truth.
Imperfection... the thing that makes you human and not supernatural and immortal - that's what's lovable.
~ Joseph Campbell
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