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
Otagaki Rengetsu & Tomioka Tessai   ‘In this world’  hanging scroll [kakemono] 1867  calligraphy, painting 92.0 x 20.0 cm Collection of the National Gallery of Australia  In this world there are certain forms which bring [welcome] thoughts to mind. The eggplant serves as a symbol of happiness.        (trans. Patricia Fister) http://nga.gov.au/Rengetsu/details/143950.cfm

Otagaki Rengetsu & Tomioka Tessai  
‘In this world’  hanging scroll [kakemono] 1867 
calligraphy, painting
92.0 x 20.0 cm
Collection of the National Gallery of Australia 

In this world
there are certain forms
which bring [welcome] thoughts to mind.
The eggplant serves as
a symbol of happiness.       

(trans. Patricia Fister)

http://nga.gov.au/Rengetsu/details/143950.cfm



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    *** *** nesse mundo (se kai) formas q convidam pensamentos passando na mente ps: a berinjela é entendida como um símbolo...
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