I like this picture because it reminds me of a sacred Tibetan temple. The central panel also tapers down to what looks like the nib of a pen. I also like it because it was painted by an amateur, Augustin Lesage, who started painting, untrained, when he was 35 and heard voices in a mine shaft (there's a link to more in the footnote below).
Maybe the worst advice well-meaning adults palm off to children is that "You have to do things you don't want to do." Early on I made the decision not to do anything I didn't want to do...Well, it's now almost 50 years later, and perhaps it's not entirely true that I've managed to avoid doing anything at all as a means to an end, but I've given it a go. Recently also learned from the amazing Tossie (Nobonke) van Tonder, that using words like "must, should" etc leads to a slave mentality where we keep beating ourselves up, becoming our own jailors. Better to rephrase more simply with "I want to, I'd like to"...
I still like to play, and have started seeing play as something to be taken more seriously; requiring attention, creativity, practice, discipline... Play is more primal concept then "Game", which has rules and regulations...Play is profound, requiring a state of openness, curiosity. You have to keep starting new, fresh; keep getting up and trying again, keep playing...
On this site I've pulled together offerings from various creative enterprises I've cooked up over the years - short films, music, images; and links to different kinds of writing. I thought I'd mostly avoid trying to sell the site, and simply leave it to be discovered by those who type in the secret mantra combination of search terms that guides them here...
I'm hoping that this site might appeal to my friends, and also to a few as yet unknown potential friends out there who will stumble across these pages accidentally, tuning in to a frequency that resonates with them...
Maybe they also want to play...to send out a signal...
Anton
[The image above is from a picture I took - a little bit illegally - at the Art Brut museum in Lausanne, of a massive triptych by the exuberant French amateurist and miner Augustin Lesage (1876-1954), who started painting at the age of 35 when he heard voices in a mine shaft. There's more about him here: www.artbrut.ch/en/21004/1013/authors/lesage--augustin. ]
Maybe the worst advice well-meaning adults palm off to children is that "You have to do things you don't want to do." Early on I made the decision not to do anything I didn't want to do...Well, it's now almost 50 years later, and perhaps it's not entirely true that I've managed to avoid doing anything at all as a means to an end, but I've given it a go. Recently also learned from the amazing Tossie (Nobonke) van Tonder, that using words like "must, should" etc leads to a slave mentality where we keep beating ourselves up, becoming our own jailors. Better to rephrase more simply with "I want to, I'd like to"...
I still like to play, and have started seeing play as something to be taken more seriously; requiring attention, creativity, practice, discipline... Play is more primal concept then "Game", which has rules and regulations...Play is profound, requiring a state of openness, curiosity. You have to keep starting new, fresh; keep getting up and trying again, keep playing...
On this site I've pulled together offerings from various creative enterprises I've cooked up over the years - short films, music, images; and links to different kinds of writing. I thought I'd mostly avoid trying to sell the site, and simply leave it to be discovered by those who type in the secret mantra combination of search terms that guides them here...
I'm hoping that this site might appeal to my friends, and also to a few as yet unknown potential friends out there who will stumble across these pages accidentally, tuning in to a frequency that resonates with them...
Maybe they also want to play...to send out a signal...
Anton
[The image above is from a picture I took - a little bit illegally - at the Art Brut museum in Lausanne, of a massive triptych by the exuberant French amateurist and miner Augustin Lesage (1876-1954), who started painting at the age of 35 when he heard voices in a mine shaft. There's more about him here: www.artbrut.ch/en/21004/1013/authors/lesage--augustin. ]
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