Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
parkstepp: Koson, “Willow and the Moon,” from the book “Japanese Ghost Paintings: The Sanyutei Encho Collection at Zensho-an” (Perikansha Publishing, 1995), ISBN: 4-48315-0887-X courtesy of A Journey Around My Skull “Clad in black robesI should have no attractions toThe shapes and scents of this world:But how can I keep my vowsGazing at today’s crimson maple leaves?”— Otagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875) 

parkstepp:

Koson, “Willow and the Moon,” from the book “Japanese Ghost Paintings: The Sanyutei Encho Collection at Zensho-an” (Perikansha Publishing, 1995), ISBN: 4-48315-0887-X courtesy of A Journey Around My Skull

“Clad in black robes
I should have no attractions to
The shapes and scents of this world:
But how can I keep my vows
Gazing at today’s crimson maple leaves?”

— Otagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875) 



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