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Water and Landscape
It all started with water.
Water is required by all,
regardless of size, shape, or behavior.
Water must also be thought of in terms of
the chains of life it supports in an
endless cyclic transfer of material from life to life.
Water and landscape evoke a feeling of
sacredness. Where the sky seems to touch the land,
I find myself aware of the ?mute?, and filled with the spirit.
Tadao Ando and Antoine Predock often refer to the ?mute?.
Both represent the mute with the blank wall.
The wall acts as a bridge between the earth and the sky.
I see the "mute" as water or the illusion of water.
There is a feeling of awe when I see it.
Water possesses a great energy, this is the feeling that is beyond
my control;
therefore, I feel surrendered and recognized it without questioning
that it is holy.
Water is beautiful by its nature, the flickering ripples, the glazing
from the sun, etc.
Perhaps these are natural charisma to control the eyes;
and again this could be what I meant by ?the illusion of water?.
The eyes are what we see. Artists draw what the eyes see, and
interpret what the mind thinks.
The mind is the intellectual, to ask a blind to draw; he can only
draw from the memory and the emotion.
What the eyes see and what the mind thinks are tow different
things, yet happen simultaneously within the process.
Aesthetic, I shall defined, is a combination of perceptual and
emotion.
Driving in a hot day suddenly we sees water ahead--a mirage--we
drive to it, it disappears.
It is there; it is not there.
Water or no water;
illusion or no illusion is an mysterious realm of water.
I have been on the mountain many times.
Even not doing anything there is something remarkable.
My favorite activity up there is to relax and listen to the sound of
water.
At night, a whole new world exists in the surrounding of nature.
If you can close your eyes and imagine yourself standing no where
and everywhere,
there is great darkness, and the stars above are only your guiding
light,
then you can feel the tension frozen there.
The photosynthesis of the day will go to work in the silence of the
night.
Every creaking sound will be heard; every crawling-feet will be
felt.
This tension or ?tranquility? moment is what I experienced
when standing in the middle of the site (Palm Canyon Drive and
Chino Drive) at midnight.
The mountain as the background, the middle ground is the
residential lighting hidden behind the palm trees that lights up,
and above are the bright stars.
It was truly and Oasis.
At the moment, everything on Earth is in transformation and
changing,
flowing, blowing, falling, and rising.
Yet it is still silence, everything around is settled and everything is
changing;
changing with time, space, and human relationship with both.
The ability to deal with the five senses can awaken the inner spirit.
To find us in the midst of great natural beauty is an awakening
into moment of heightened spirited consciousness.
The magic of nature happens at the tweak of twilight has created
a mental space, a space of sacred earth energies.
In order to capture that human relationship with the sky and the
land, the darkness mood should be ease away.
We will enter the realm of darkness without feeling of darkness.
It is then our greatest emotion and thought are in harmony with
the "oasis" of the site.
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I believe the most important concept to remember
when being in the energies of the site is you,
your energies, your thoughts and your emotion are tied into the
energies,
the thoughts and the emotions of the "sacred" site.
What you think and feel will become part of the energies of the
sacred site
and will reflected back to you and through you in a magnified
form.
The presence of the magnified form I believe should be induced to
stillness, timelessness, quietude.
It is this way that we return to our senses, and to "reduce to our
own dichotomous vision of how we think the world is made."
Water and Landscape are the keys to conjure such harmonica
spirit of the site.
Water, I see water as part of the phenomenon,
and that phenomenon of water and landscape is what I want to
investigate.
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