IAIN BAXTER&: Dialectics of Absolute Identity
Posted: August 6, 2012IAIN BAXTER&:
Dialectics of Absolute Identity
David Bellman
CAUSA
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“I feel there is a strong need today for people to become more aware of nature and of her complexities.”
– Iain Baxter, excerpt from application for Japanese Government Scholarship (1960)
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Chiba Garden Redux, Digital colour photograph © IAIN BAXTER&, 2012.
This traditional Japanese garden (opened in 1986), links the City of North Vancouver to its “Sister City”, Chiba.
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“August 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.”
Noam Chomsky (2012)
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“An old buddha said:
For the time being I stand
astride the highest
mountain peaks.
I move on the deepest
depths of the ocean floor.”
– Dogen (1240)
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August 6, 2012