Zen and the art of Caroling includes oil painting, ink painting, drawing, stained glass, and expression in various other mediums. Today there is merely a sampler of what is to come.Having left SF, California to go back east to Staten Island in 1968, a friend told me to look at what I see with my eyes closed. With sight and insight ever more open as my consciousness expanded, I wanted to draw, paint, write, and express everything that I could see with my eyes closed.
Sketches are the quickest way to record new ideas. I mixed media such as pencil, pastels, felt tip pens, and silk screen stationery in relatively impermanent form. My first experiments with a language of vibrations included this design specification for the interactive Insight Machine. The energy of brain processes looked like neurons. Here's one. More drawings, including a 3D icosahedron.
I
painted and then ported the results to stained
glass in Wholeo dome. Here are:
The underlying concept for Wholeo, the stained glass dome came in 1967 in San Francisco. The major design of Wholeo crystalized over four years in New York. Actually it started with failed structures of cardboard, plastic, and tar on the roof of a loft on Pearl St, near the Battery in downtown Manhattan. Technical experimentation in numerous prototypes continued in Staten Island. Structure moved from cardboard to cast plastics to aluminum tubes. Color moved from gels to glass. Work table moved from opaque to transparent.
Artistic experimentation involved a whole new way of seeing, mostly in painting and drawing. When about 20 panels were done, with glass, lead, and tubing supplies, it was time to move back to nature to finish the dome in California, ending in Monte Rio.
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