Be my guest : Andy Goldworthy, Alan Watts and trees
BE MY GUEST is a venue for others to share their art; I assemble between creators in my sitting room. Linear time and locality are not relevant. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-4bedyT_k Andy Galsworthy’s modest art was on my mind on my last trip to Kyoto; I was thinking of him while counting and lining up ten leaves, and when I […]
Almost abstract 1
Five Music Notes: rain, crow, spring, Kyoto, prayer bells. Instructions: You can play each video-sound separately. You can also play them all together, again and again. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cf1F5P4rEY httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUQzEkH3BA httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjONOYtaPxA more here: https://nonaorbach.com//?p=2085
Enso – Mandala
Enso and Mandala are closely related in my mind. These are some visual examples how I grasp the two terms; I see them as a blue print of our consciousness. They overlap, enrich, contradict and merge through cultures. The pictures are from Kyoto and Istanbul. Ink bowl at a Kitano Shrine, August 2011 Ψ Enso -Mandala […]
Geisha taking picture of me
Counting to TEN – site specific art in Zen garden
Counting and listing organizes, relaxes, gives a sense of order to our life. At the same time, counting leaves in a zen garden is as a constant as a cherry petal that is dropping and leaving the tree at this precise moment. If you follow Euclid through tags, you will find more shadows. You might be […]
BE MY GUEST – Makiko Sakurai
BE MY GUEST is a venue for others to share their art; I assemble between creators in my sitting room. Linear time and locality are not relevant. Makiko Sakurai, a musician, an Aikido teacher, Buddhist Shomyo chanter, took the night train to Sensei’s home at Yamma village where I was a guest for a few weeks. […]
Shomyo
I climbed the small path to Raigoin Temple at Ohara mountains Kyoto. It was drizzling. As I walked through a small wooden gate towards the booth to pay, the priest slided the wooden window, picked a flute and played. When I was leaving his flute followed my footsteps. You can hear it here with the rain and birds, if the volume is fully open: […]
Seven Sticks at Matsuno Taisha Shrine, Kyoto – site specific art
It is Sunday, cherry blossom in Kyoto. I gathered seven branches on one of the stepping stones to a tiny shrine at Matsuno. Waterfall is streaming on my left. A ray of light falls on them. Seven sticks resemble the days of a week. Click here for Gallery
Two sticks – site specific art
When I was an art student, one of my teachers said: “Anyone walking into a forest can notice bottles thrown on the ground- this is pop art. However, to perceive a mound of leaves someone displayed – that is minimal- conceptual art. Since it is so subtle you will need to work much more on these […]