In The Medium of Motion (Part 3)

Posted: January 7, 2013 | Author: David Bellman

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In The Medium of Motion (Part 3)

 

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“My interest in Eastern philosophy, and the fact that it offers a much more harmonious relationship to nature than does the western Cartesian tradition, was a major reason why I wanted to go to Japan.”

– IAIN BAXTER (2012)

 

“Nature is always in motion, never at a standstill; if Nature is to be loved, it must be caught while moving and in this way its aesthetic value must be appraised.”

– Daisetz T. Suzuki (1938)

 

“Pacific Ocean (near Skalsh/Siwash Rock, Vancouver) – 1 January, 2013. Orientation: West, towards Japan.” [Photo: M. Cynog Evans.]

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LIGHT VANCOUVER15:40 PSTAND SAME TIMECHIBACITY8:40JST LIGHT

[IAIN BAXTER&, 1969/2013]

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Since 1961 – when he accepted a Japanese Embassy invitation to reside, that year, as a guest of their country – an enduring CONTEXTURE has sustained a particularized IAIN BAXTER/BAXTER& PRESENCE that furthermore clarifies a momentary (cumulative) engagement with a PROVISIONAL/ECOLOGICAL AESTHETIC.

In 2013 – as in fifty-one immediately previous years – each (every) iteration (reiteration) of the purposeful/transgenerational BAXTER& project will have the capacity to encompass a contemporaneity that is at once transitory and pending.

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