TAR : To Apprehend Relativity

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TAR : The Arts in Review [ 2023 )

Christopher Allen - Visual Arts in Review (2023) - The Australian (23-24  December) - Peter Tyndall at Buxton Contemporary

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inside the waterfall : The Annual Rave

  

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TAR presents The Assured Result

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Original Face

"Sweep away thoughts!" means one must do zazen. Once thoughts are quieted, the Original Face appears. Thoughts can be compared to clouds. When clouds vanish, the moon appears. The moon of suchness is the Original Face. Thoughts are also like the fogging of a mirror. When you wipe away all condensation, a mirror reflects clearly. Quiet your thoughts and behold your Original Face before you were born!

— Daito

Cease practice based
On intellectual understanding,
Pursuing words and
Following after speech.
Learn the backward
Step that turns
Your light inward
To illuminate within.
Body and mind of themselves
Will drop away
And your original face will be manifest.

— Dogen

You cannot describe it or draw it,
You cannot praise it enough or perceive it.
No place can be found in which
To put the Original Face;
It will not disappear even
When the universe is destroyed.

— Mumon

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after Tachihara, the Architecture of Regard : From the Mountains to the See

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TENEZ LE DROIT / Uphold the Right [Angle]

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poem to the see after Cy [ canvas offcut )

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TAR presents : Twombly, the Ancient Remains

Cy Twombly moved to Italy from the USA in 1957.

His ‘Poems to the Sea’ suite of twenty-four drawings were executed in a single day in 1959.

Twombly lived north of Rome at Bassano in Teverina. “Downstream from the city centre, not far away from the Tiber, lies Lake Vadimo, locally known as the "Pond", described by Pliny the Younger as "a lying wheel with a regular circumference [...] paler, greener and more intense than the sea." - Wikipedia

At the 1988 Venice Biennale he exhibited paintings responding to the Bassano in Teverina “Pond” along with unpainted plaster sculptures. Henry Weatherfield chanced upon that exhibition just hours before leaving Venice, that one time visit. “Paler, greener and more intense than the sea is the see", he later wrote.

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re. the stakeholder and the short end of the stick

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TAR presents A Toast :

 

Toast : To All, Regard!
Reply : To All, Regard!

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Flags of the World (continued) Under bondage

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T - + - R

This glossy 8x10 arrived out of the blue with several others placed inside an old folded movie poster.

Recognised as a classic Theatre of the Actors of Regard document worthy of further regard, Henry Weatherfield & Associates were commissioned to sign-write it as it now appears.

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Me 'n U (for Jo & Michele)

The Appetiser Recycled

(re-using a drawing from the mid-80s)

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FLOWER DRUM SONG

A cover version of yesterday’s “Flower Sermon” in which one of the actors was a percussionist.

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            for Margaret Plant  

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Three Act Regard (Part 2)

Theatre of the Actors of Regard yesterday presented Three Act Regard (Part 1) in which the first regard brought forth laughter at the appearance of a Label Flower.

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Today, another represenTARtion of the “Flower Sermon” offered by Guatama Buddha to his followers at Vulture Peak. There, it is said, he twirled a flower...

“At this, they all remained silent. Only the venerable Kashyapa broke into a smile. The World-Honored One said: “I have the eye treasury of the true Dharma, the marvelous mind of nirvana, the true form of no-form, the subtle gate of the Dharma. It does not depend on letters, being specially transmitted outside all teachings. Now I entrust Mahakashyapa with this.”

The scroll shown here is by Yosa Buson from the collection of Henry Weatherfield & Associates.

[Wikipedia : Yosa Buson or Yosa no Buson (与謝 蕪村, 1716 – January 17, 1784) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period.)

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Three Act Regard (Part 1)

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   Three Act Regard   

][             Observe the mind             )(

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TAR : This Anagram Reversed

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RAT ART TAR TAT
RAT ART TAR TAT
RAT ART TAR TAT
RAT ART TAR TAT

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Twombly of the AssisTARed Readymade

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