OCCASIONAL DOCUMENTS – AN ANNIVERSARY

Posted: November 16, 2012 | Author: David Bellman

Frameworks for an

Intervention

by David Bellman, CAUSA

OCCASIONAL DOCUMENTS – AN ANNIVERSARY

GROUPING FOR IAIN BAXTER / IAIN BAXTER&

 

November 16, 2012

“Imagination is not an empirical or super-added power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.”

– Jean-Paul Sartre (1936)

IAIN BAXTER&, Until the & of time, window signage, North Vancouver City Library, 2012. [Photo: M. Cynog Evans.]

“Japanese art of the past is based on the typical Japanese attitude of perceiving the outer world not in opposition to the self, but regarding the self as part of the universe. To maintain the self was to the Japanese mind nothing else than immersion in the universe.”

– Chisaburoh F. Yamada (1952)

IAIN BAXTER, Reflected San Francisco Beauty Spots (Buddha in Golden Gate Park), 1979. [Photo-etching with colour aquatint. Publisher: Crown Point Press.]

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“Creation – whether it be a painting, sculpture, symphony or novel – involves not merely talent, intuition, powers of imagination and application, but also the ability to shape material that could be expanded to other socially relevant spaces.”

– Joseph Beuys (1972)

Chiba Garden, North Vancouver – Autumn, 2012. [Photo: M. Cynog Evans.]

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“What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What you want to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see. You should not let it pass by, thinking there will be another chance to see it or to acquire it. It is quite unusual to have a second chance to materialize your desire.”

– Yosa Buson, Haiku Master (1716 – 1783)

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