IAIN BAXTER&: Dialectics of Absolute Identity [Part 3]
Posted: August 15, 2012IAIN BAXTER&:
Dialectics of Absolute Identity
[Part 3]
David Bellman, CAUSA
August 12, 2012
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ChibaGarden (North Vancouver), Spring 2012. Photo: M. Cynog Evans.
nobody told the flowers to come up nobody
will ask them to leave when spring’s gone
– Ikkyū (1394-1481)
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![Iain Baxter Notebook [Notes on Japan, Kyoto, 1961].](images/notebook.jpg)
Iain Baxter Notebook [Notes on Japan, Kyoto, 1961].
raining or not
walk lifting your heavy wet sleeves
– Ikkyū (1393-1481)
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mirror facing a mirror
nowhere else
– Ikkyū (1393-1481)
Split Eight Hundred and Eighty-Eight Thousand Eight-Hundred and Eighty-Eight Horizontally & Vertically
– BAXTER&, 2012
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The artist was born Iain Baxter in 1936. He legally changed his name to IAIN BAXTER& in 2005. Concerning the current form of his name BAXTER& advises:
“It is very important to both my identity as an artist and the integrity of my creative project that all pre-2005 references to me (except citations/quotations connected with historical documents) be to the current form of my name: IAIN BAXTER&”. [Communication from the artist, August 2012.]
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This concluding portion of a three-part Intervention is dedicated to the memory of Marie Fleming. Her purposeful, rigorous work has established a model of connoisseurship that is pertinent to any future Baxter/BAXTER& research; her subtle legacy is both elegant and irreplaceable.
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August 15, 2012 at 12:39 pm
first-person-infinite Bellman edifying Zen coupled with apperceptive Evans exquisite iris composition.