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WALKING IS DRAWING
Hair or Needle Ice. Enso: In zen buddhism, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited. brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe. It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics. WALKING IS DRAWING: WELCOME TO WALKING IS DRAWING Welcome to Walking Is Drawing.I'm Tim McDonald, an artist and Associate Professor of Art at Framingham State University in Framingham, MA. This blog will document my sabbatical project which I just this moment titled Walking Is Drawing.Over the next several months I will be walking the mountains that Henry David Thoreau walked in (and around) New England. WALKING IS DRAWING: THE GPS DRAWING DEVICE Here's the GPS that John Anderson (http://www.johnchristiananderson.com/) built for me. When I approached John, last fall, about creating s WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 2: SADDLE AND SUMMIT On Wednesday, September 18, Robert, Marc, and I set off for the summit using the Saddle Trail. While only 2.2 miles to the summit from Chimney Pond, this trail is mostly uphill and a good deal of it is over exposed rock above the treeline. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT MONADNOCK #3: WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES? November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: WALKING/DRAWING: NORTH PACK MONADNOCK On Thursday, July 25, 2013 I walked up North Pack Monadnock, a 2278 foot mountain in Greenfield, NH. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot,bu
WALKING IS DRAWING: MONADNOCK 2: LOOKING AT IT On September 23, 2013, three days after my return from Maine and the excursion to Mt. Katahdin, I climbed Mount Monadnock for the secondtime.
WALKING IS DRAWING: OCTOBER 2013 On October 16, 2013, I "walked" up Mount Lafayette (5260 feet) in New Hampshire via Little Haystack (4760 feet) and Mount Lincoln (5089 feet) along the Franconia Ridge. WALKING IS DRAWING: SEPTEMBER 2013 On September 9, 2013 I set off for the first of 4 hikes up Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey (and Dublin), NH. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, t he word m onadnock is an Abenaki-derived word loosely translated as "mountain that stands alone," although the exact meaning of the word (what kind of mountain) is uncertain. The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT WACHUSETT: THE SECOND TIME On August 14, 2013 I headed off for Mount Wachusett for the second time (GPS drawings appear at the end of this post). Thoreau made 2 trips to Wachusett, his second being in October of 1854.WALKING IS DRAWING
Hair or Needle Ice. Enso: In zen buddhism, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited. brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe. It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics. WALKING IS DRAWING: WELCOME TO WALKING IS DRAWING Welcome to Walking Is Drawing.I'm Tim McDonald, an artist and Associate Professor of Art at Framingham State University in Framingham, MA. This blog will document my sabbatical project which I just this moment titled Walking Is Drawing.Over the next several months I will be walking the mountains that Henry David Thoreau walked in (and around) New England. WALKING IS DRAWING: THE GPS DRAWING DEVICE Here's the GPS that John Anderson (http://www.johnchristiananderson.com/) built for me. When I approached John, last fall, about creating s WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 2: SADDLE AND SUMMIT On Wednesday, September 18, Robert, Marc, and I set off for the summit using the Saddle Trail. While only 2.2 miles to the summit from Chimney Pond, this trail is mostly uphill and a good deal of it is over exposed rock above the treeline. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT MONADNOCK #3: WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES? November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: WALKING/DRAWING: NORTH PACK MONADNOCK On Thursday, July 25, 2013 I walked up North Pack Monadnock, a 2278 foot mountain in Greenfield, NH. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot,bu
WALKING IS DRAWING: MONADNOCK 2: LOOKING AT IT On September 23, 2013, three days after my return from Maine and the excursion to Mt. Katahdin, I climbed Mount Monadnock for the secondtime.
WALKING IS DRAWING: OCTOBER 2013 On October 16, 2013, I "walked" up Mount Lafayette (5260 feet) in New Hampshire via Little Haystack (4760 feet) and Mount Lincoln (5089 feet) along the Franconia Ridge. WALKING IS DRAWING: SEPTEMBER 2013 On September 9, 2013 I set off for the first of 4 hikes up Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey (and Dublin), NH. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, t he word m onadnock is an Abenaki-derived word loosely translated as "mountain that stands alone," although the exact meaning of the word (what kind of mountain) is uncertain. The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT WACHUSETT: THE SECOND TIME On August 14, 2013 I headed off for Mount Wachusett for the second time (GPS drawings appear at the end of this post). Thoreau made 2 trips to Wachusett, his second being in October of 1854. WALKING IS DRAWING: WELCOME TO WALKING IS DRAWING Welcome to Walking Is Drawing.I'm Tim McDonald, an artist and Associate Professor of Art at Framingham State University in Framingham, MA. This blog will document my sabbatical project which I just this moment titled Walking Is Drawing.Over the next several months I will be walking the mountains that Henry David Thoreau walked in (and around) New England.WALKING IS DRAWING
A word on the GPS Drawing tool. It employs an Arduino microprocessor. You can check them out at: http://www.arduino.cc/.WALKING IS DRAWING
ideas. I've taken as source images things at the periphery of attention tape on the floor or press, shavings from deburring plates, etc. While this may seem all too cerebral, I find it to be wonderfully organic and in keeping with my process/practice. WALKING IS DRAWING: WALKING/DRAWING: NORTH PACK MONADNOCK On Thursday, July 25, 2013 I walked up North Pack Monadnock, a 2278 foot mountain in Greenfield, NH. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot,bu
WALKING IS DRAWING: REALIZING GENJO-KOAN When I walked on North Pack Monadnock I came upon this hollow tree whose "gate" was about my size. At the very moment I saw it this thought, although I hesitate to call it a thought, came up, "It can see and step right through me." WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT MONADNOCK #3: WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES? November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: MT. GREYLOCK: LETTING GO OF VIEWS Mount Greylock is the highest peak in Massachusetts at 3491 feet. The trail I chose to follow is aptly named Thoreau's Footsteps as it is partially the route that Thoreau took to the summit. WALKING IS DRAWING: MONADNOCK 2: LOOKING AT IT On September 23, 2013, three days after my return from Maine and the excursion to Mt. Katahdin, I climbed Mount Monadnock for the secondtime.
WALKING IS DRAWING: JULY 2013 For a while I was being led up the trail by a downy woodpecker who jumped from trunk to trunk keeping a steady 15-20 feet ahead of me. I was also accompanied by a wide variety of birdsong with the call of a yellow-shafted flicker piercing through the dense chorus.WALKING IS DRAWING
John Cage rediscovers Thoreau on a visit with Wendell Berry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNyvZznMmqMWALKING IS DRAWING
Hair or Needle Ice. Enso: In zen buddhism, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited. brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe. It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics. WALKING IS DRAWING: WELCOME TO WALKING IS DRAWING Welcome to Walking Is Drawing.I'm Tim McDonald, an artist and Associate Professor of Art at Framingham State University in Framingham, MA. This blog will document my sabbatical project which I just this moment titled Walking Is Drawing.Over the next several months I will be walking the mountains that Henry David Thoreau walked in (and around) New England. WALKING IS DRAWING: THE GPS DRAWING DEVICE Here's the GPS that John Anderson (http://www.johnchristiananderson.com/) built for me. When I approached John, last fall, about creating s WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 2: SADDLE AND SUMMIT On Wednesday, September 18, Robert, Marc, and I set off for the summit using the Saddle Trail. While only 2.2 miles to the summit from Chimney Pond, this trail is mostly uphill and a good deal of it is over exposed rock above the treeline. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT MONADNOCK #3: WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES? November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: WALKING/DRAWING: NORTH PACK MONADNOCK On Thursday, July 25, 2013 I walked up North Pack Monadnock, a 2278 foot mountain in Greenfield, NH. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot,bu
WALKING IS DRAWING: MONADNOCK 2: LOOKING AT IT On September 23, 2013, three days after my return from Maine and the excursion to Mt. Katahdin, I climbed Mount Monadnock for the secondtime.
WALKING IS DRAWING: OCTOBER 2013 On October 16, 2013, I "walked" up Mount Lafayette (5260 feet) in New Hampshire via Little Haystack (4760 feet) and Mount Lincoln (5089 feet) along the Franconia Ridge. WALKING IS DRAWING: SEPTEMBER 2013 On September 9, 2013 I set off for the first of 4 hikes up Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey (and Dublin), NH. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, t he word m onadnock is an Abenaki-derived word loosely translated as "mountain that stands alone," although the exact meaning of the word (what kind of mountain) is uncertain. The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT WACHUSETT: THE SECOND TIME On August 14, 2013 I headed off for Mount Wachusett for the second time (GPS drawings appear at the end of this post). Thoreau made 2 trips to Wachusett, his second being in October of 1854.WALKING IS DRAWING
Hair or Needle Ice. Enso: In zen buddhism, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited. brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe. It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics. WALKING IS DRAWING: WELCOME TO WALKING IS DRAWING Welcome to Walking Is Drawing.I'm Tim McDonald, an artist and Associate Professor of Art at Framingham State University in Framingham, MA. This blog will document my sabbatical project which I just this moment titled Walking Is Drawing.Over the next several months I will be walking the mountains that Henry David Thoreau walked in (and around) New England. WALKING IS DRAWING: THE GPS DRAWING DEVICE Here's the GPS that John Anderson (http://www.johnchristiananderson.com/) built for me. When I approached John, last fall, about creating s WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 2: SADDLE AND SUMMIT On Wednesday, September 18, Robert, Marc, and I set off for the summit using the Saddle Trail. While only 2.2 miles to the summit from Chimney Pond, this trail is mostly uphill and a good deal of it is over exposed rock above the treeline. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT MONADNOCK #3: WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES? November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: WALKING/DRAWING: NORTH PACK MONADNOCK On Thursday, July 25, 2013 I walked up North Pack Monadnock, a 2278 foot mountain in Greenfield, NH. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot,bu
WALKING IS DRAWING: MONADNOCK 2: LOOKING AT IT On September 23, 2013, three days after my return from Maine and the excursion to Mt. Katahdin, I climbed Mount Monadnock for the secondtime.
WALKING IS DRAWING: OCTOBER 2013 On October 16, 2013, I "walked" up Mount Lafayette (5260 feet) in New Hampshire via Little Haystack (4760 feet) and Mount Lincoln (5089 feet) along the Franconia Ridge. WALKING IS DRAWING: SEPTEMBER 2013 On September 9, 2013 I set off for the first of 4 hikes up Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey (and Dublin), NH. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, t he word m onadnock is an Abenaki-derived word loosely translated as "mountain that stands alone," although the exact meaning of the word (what kind of mountain) is uncertain. The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT WACHUSETT: THE SECOND TIME On August 14, 2013 I headed off for Mount Wachusett for the second time (GPS drawings appear at the end of this post). Thoreau made 2 trips to Wachusett, his second being in October of 1854. WALKING IS DRAWING: WELCOME TO WALKING IS DRAWING Welcome to Walking Is Drawing.I'm Tim McDonald, an artist and Associate Professor of Art at Framingham State University in Framingham, MA. This blog will document my sabbatical project which I just this moment titled Walking Is Drawing.Over the next several months I will be walking the mountains that Henry David Thoreau walked in (and around) New England.WALKING IS DRAWING
A word on the GPS Drawing tool. It employs an Arduino microprocessor. You can check them out at: http://www.arduino.cc/.WALKING IS DRAWING
ideas. I've taken as source images things at the periphery of attention tape on the floor or press, shavings from deburring plates, etc. While this may seem all too cerebral, I find it to be wonderfully organic and in keeping with my process/practice. WALKING IS DRAWING: WALKING/DRAWING: NORTH PACK MONADNOCK On Thursday, July 25, 2013 I walked up North Pack Monadnock, a 2278 foot mountain in Greenfield, NH. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot,bu
WALKING IS DRAWING: REALIZING GENJO-KOAN When I walked on North Pack Monadnock I came upon this hollow tree whose "gate" was about my size. At the very moment I saw it this thought, although I hesitate to call it a thought, came up, "It can see and step right through me." WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT MONADNOCK #3: WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES? November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: MT. GREYLOCK: LETTING GO OF VIEWS Mount Greylock is the highest peak in Massachusetts at 3491 feet. The trail I chose to follow is aptly named Thoreau's Footsteps as it is partially the route that Thoreau took to the summit. WALKING IS DRAWING: MONADNOCK 2: LOOKING AT IT On September 23, 2013, three days after my return from Maine and the excursion to Mt. Katahdin, I climbed Mount Monadnock for the secondtime.
WALKING IS DRAWING: JULY 2013 For a while I was being led up the trail by a downy woodpecker who jumped from trunk to trunk keeping a steady 15-20 feet ahead of me. I was also accompanied by a wide variety of birdsong with the call of a yellow-shafted flicker piercing through the dense chorus.WALKING IS DRAWING
John Cage rediscovers Thoreau on a visit with Wendell Berry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNyvZznMmqMWALKING IS DRAWING
Hair or Needle Ice. Enso: In zen buddhism, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited. brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe. It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics. WALKING IS DRAWING: WALKING/DRAWING: NORTH PACK MONADNOCK On Thursday, July 25, 2013 I walked up North Pack Monadnock, a 2278 foot mountain in Greenfield, NH. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot,bu
WALKING IS DRAWING: MONADNOCK 2: LOOKING AT IT On September 23, 2013, three days after my return from Maine and the excursion to Mt. Katahdin, I climbed Mount Monadnock for the secondtime.
WALKING IS DRAWING: MT. GREYLOCK: LETTING GO OF VIEWS Mount Greylock is the highest peak in Massachusetts at 3491 feet. The trail I chose to follow is aptly named Thoreau's Footsteps as it is partially the route that Thoreau took to the summit. WALKING IS DRAWING: THE GPS DRAWING DEVICE Here's the GPS that John Anderson (http://www.johnchristiananderson.com/) built for me. When I approached John, last fall, about creating s WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 2: SADDLE AND SUMMIT On Wednesday, September 18, Robert, Marc, and I set off for the summit using the Saddle Trail. While only 2.2 miles to the summit from Chimney Pond, this trail is mostly uphill and a good deal of it is over exposed rock above the treeline. WALKING IS DRAWING: SEPTEMBER 2013 On September 9, 2013 I set off for the first of 4 hikes up Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey (and Dublin), NH. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, t he word m onadnock is an Abenaki-derived word loosely translated as "mountain that stands alone," although the exact meaning of the word (what kind of mountain) is uncertain. The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 1: WIND SWEEPS MIND On Monday, September 16, 2013, I set off with 2 companions for Mount Katahdin in Baxter state Park in Maine. My traveling companions were Robert Lidstone, of Lancaster, MA and his high school friend, Marc Ayotte, from Auburn, Maine. WALKING IS DRAWING: JULY 2013 For a while I was being led up the trail by a downy woodpecker who jumped from trunk to trunk keeping a steady 15-20 feet ahead of me. I was also accompanied by a wide variety of birdsong with the call of a yellow-shafted flicker piercing through the dense chorus. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT WACHUSETT: THE SECOND TIME On August 14, 2013 I headed off for Mount Wachusett for the second time (GPS drawings appear at the end of this post). Thoreau made 2 trips to Wachusett, his second being in October of 1854.WALKING IS DRAWING
Hair or Needle Ice. Enso: In zen buddhism, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited. brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe. It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics. WALKING IS DRAWING: WALKING/DRAWING: NORTH PACK MONADNOCK On Thursday, July 25, 2013 I walked up North Pack Monadnock, a 2278 foot mountain in Greenfield, NH. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot,bu
WALKING IS DRAWING: MONADNOCK 2: LOOKING AT IT On September 23, 2013, three days after my return from Maine and the excursion to Mt. Katahdin, I climbed Mount Monadnock for the secondtime.
WALKING IS DRAWING: MT. GREYLOCK: LETTING GO OF VIEWS Mount Greylock is the highest peak in Massachusetts at 3491 feet. The trail I chose to follow is aptly named Thoreau's Footsteps as it is partially the route that Thoreau took to the summit. WALKING IS DRAWING: THE GPS DRAWING DEVICE Here's the GPS that John Anderson (http://www.johnchristiananderson.com/) built for me. When I approached John, last fall, about creating s WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 2: SADDLE AND SUMMIT On Wednesday, September 18, Robert, Marc, and I set off for the summit using the Saddle Trail. While only 2.2 miles to the summit from Chimney Pond, this trail is mostly uphill and a good deal of it is over exposed rock above the treeline. WALKING IS DRAWING: SEPTEMBER 2013 On September 9, 2013 I set off for the first of 4 hikes up Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey (and Dublin), NH. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, t he word m onadnock is an Abenaki-derived word loosely translated as "mountain that stands alone," although the exact meaning of the word (what kind of mountain) is uncertain. The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 1: WIND SWEEPS MIND On Monday, September 16, 2013, I set off with 2 companions for Mount Katahdin in Baxter state Park in Maine. My traveling companions were Robert Lidstone, of Lancaster, MA and his high school friend, Marc Ayotte, from Auburn, Maine. WALKING IS DRAWING: JULY 2013 For a while I was being led up the trail by a downy woodpecker who jumped from trunk to trunk keeping a steady 15-20 feet ahead of me. I was also accompanied by a wide variety of birdsong with the call of a yellow-shafted flicker piercing through the dense chorus. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT WACHUSETT: THE SECOND TIME On August 14, 2013 I headed off for Mount Wachusett for the second time (GPS drawings appear at the end of this post). Thoreau made 2 trips to Wachusett, his second being in October of 1854. WALKING IS DRAWING: WELCOME TO WALKING IS DRAWING Welcome to Walking Is Drawing.I'm Tim McDonald, an artist and Associate Professor of Art at Framingham State University in Framingham, MA. This blog will document my sabbatical project which I just this moment titled Walking Is Drawing.Over the next several months I will be walking the mountains that Henry David Thoreau walked in (and around) New England.WALKING IS DRAWING
A word on the GPS Drawing tool. It employs an Arduino microprocessor. You can check them out at: http://www.arduino.cc/.WALKING IS DRAWING
ideas. I've taken as source images things at the periphery of attention tape on the floor or press, shavings from deburring plates, etc. While this may seem all too cerebral, I find it to be wonderfully organic and in keeping with my process/practice. WALKING IS DRAWING: 2013 November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT MONADNOCK #3: WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES? November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: REALIZING GENJO-KOAN When I walked on North Pack Monadnock I came upon this hollow tree whose "gate" was about my size. At the very moment I saw it this thought, although I hesitate to call it a thought, came up, "It can see and step right through me." WALKING IS DRAWING: JULY 2013 For a while I was being led up the trail by a downy woodpecker who jumped from trunk to trunk keeping a steady 15-20 feet ahead of me. I was also accompanied by a wide variety of birdsong with the call of a yellow-shafted flicker piercing through the dense chorus. WALKING IS DRAWING: JUNE 2013 Thursday, June 27, 2013. I've kicked off this project with a workshop at Crown Point Press in San Francisco. I thought that a series of prints or a book of prints could possibly be the form that the work generated by the mights might take. However, seeing as I knew nothing about printmaking (or rather remember nothing about printmaking from WALKING IS DRAWING: AUGUST 2013 I took the long way round coming down, deciding to visit Balance Rock. Balance Rock is a glacial remnant, totaling about 20 feet in height. The rocks may have been "stacked" as the glacier melted or, more likely, are the only two remaining of a boulder field shifted or scattered by the glacier.WALKING IS DRAWING
John Cage rediscovers Thoreau on a visit with Wendell Berry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNyvZznMmqMWALKING IS DRAWING
Hair or Needle Ice. Enso: In zen buddhism, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited. brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe. It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 2: SADDLE AND SUMMIT On Wednesday, September 18, Robert, Marc, and I set off for the summit using the Saddle Trail. While only 2.2 miles to the summit from Chimney Pond, this trail is mostly uphill and a good deal of it is over exposed rock above the treeline. WALKING IS DRAWING: MT. LAFAYETTE: THE WAY OF MOUNTAINS On October 16, 2013, I "walked" up Mount Lafayette (5260 feet) in New Hampshire via Little Haystack (4760 feet) and Mount Lincoln (5089 feet) along the Franconia Ridge. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 1: WIND SWEEPS MIND On Monday, September 16, 2013, I set off with 2 companions for Mount Katahdin in Baxter state Park in Maine. My traveling companions were Robert Lidstone, of Lancaster, MA and his high school friend, Marc Ayotte, from Auburn, Maine. WALKING IS DRAWING: REALIZING GENJO-KOAN When I walked on North Pack Monadnock I came upon this hollow tree whose "gate" was about my size. At the very moment I saw it this thought, although I hesitate to call it a thought, came up, "It can see and step right through me." WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT MONADNOCK #3: WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES? November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: MONADNOCK 2: LOOKING AT IT On September 23, 2013, three days after my return from Maine and the excursion to Mt. Katahdin, I climbed Mount Monadnock for the secondtime.
WALKING IS DRAWING: WALKING/DRAWING: NORTH PACK MONADNOCK On Thursday, July 25, 2013 I walked up North Pack Monadnock, a 2278 foot mountain in Greenfield, NH. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot,bu
WALKING IS DRAWING: SEPTEMBER 2013 On September 9, 2013 I set off for the first of 4 hikes up Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey (and Dublin), NH. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, t he word m onadnock is an Abenaki-derived word loosely translated as "mountain that stands alone," although the exact meaning of the word (what kind of mountain) is uncertain. The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT WACHUSETT: THE SECOND TIME On August 14, 2013 I headed off for Mount Wachusett for the second time (GPS drawings appear at the end of this post). Thoreau made 2 trips to Wachusett, his second being in October of 1854.WALKING IS DRAWING
Hair or Needle Ice. Enso: In zen buddhism, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited. brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe. It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 2: SADDLE AND SUMMIT On Wednesday, September 18, Robert, Marc, and I set off for the summit using the Saddle Trail. While only 2.2 miles to the summit from Chimney Pond, this trail is mostly uphill and a good deal of it is over exposed rock above the treeline. WALKING IS DRAWING: MT. LAFAYETTE: THE WAY OF MOUNTAINS On October 16, 2013, I "walked" up Mount Lafayette (5260 feet) in New Hampshire via Little Haystack (4760 feet) and Mount Lincoln (5089 feet) along the Franconia Ridge. WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT KATAHDIN 1: WIND SWEEPS MIND On Monday, September 16, 2013, I set off with 2 companions for Mount Katahdin in Baxter state Park in Maine. My traveling companions were Robert Lidstone, of Lancaster, MA and his high school friend, Marc Ayotte, from Auburn, Maine. WALKING IS DRAWING: REALIZING GENJO-KOAN When I walked on North Pack Monadnock I came upon this hollow tree whose "gate" was about my size. At the very moment I saw it this thought, although I hesitate to call it a thought, came up, "It can see and step right through me." WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT MONADNOCK #3: WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES? November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: MONADNOCK 2: LOOKING AT IT On September 23, 2013, three days after my return from Maine and the excursion to Mt. Katahdin, I climbed Mount Monadnock for the secondtime.
WALKING IS DRAWING: WALKING/DRAWING: NORTH PACK MONADNOCK On Thursday, July 25, 2013 I walked up North Pack Monadnock, a 2278 foot mountain in Greenfield, NH. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot,bu
WALKING IS DRAWING: SEPTEMBER 2013 On September 9, 2013 I set off for the first of 4 hikes up Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey (and Dublin), NH. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, t he word m onadnock is an Abenaki-derived word loosely translated as "mountain that stands alone," although the exact meaning of the word (what kind of mountain) is uncertain. The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later WALKING IS DRAWING: MOUNT WACHUSETT: THE SECOND TIME On August 14, 2013 I headed off for Mount Wachusett for the second time (GPS drawings appear at the end of this post). Thoreau made 2 trips to Wachusett, his second being in October of 1854.WALKING IS DRAWING
Hair or Needle Ice. Enso: In zen buddhism, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited. brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe. It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics. WALKING IS DRAWING: JUNE 2013 Thursday, June 27, 2013. I've kicked off this project with a workshop at Crown Point Press in San Francisco. I thought that a series of prints or a book of prints could possibly be the form that the work generated by the mights might take. However, seeing as I knew nothing about printmaking (or rather remember nothing about printmaking from WALKING IS DRAWING: SEPTEMBER 2013 On September 9, 2013 I set off for the first of 4 hikes up Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey (and Dublin), NH. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, t he word m onadnock is an Abenaki-derived word loosely translated as "mountain that stands alone," although the exact meaning of the word (what kind of mountain) is uncertain. The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later WALKING IS DRAWING: 2013 November 21st was a day just like this cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. WALKING IS DRAWING: AUGUST 2013 I took the long way round coming down, deciding to visit Balance Rock. Balance Rock is a glacial remnant, totaling about 20 feet in height. The rocks may have been "stacked" as the glacier melted or, more likely, are the only two remaining of a boulder field shifted or scattered by the glacier.WALKING IS DRAWING
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2014 SOME WORK ALONG THE WAY It has been several weeks since my last post. Three holidays (five when you include Hanukkah and Kwanzaa) have come and gone. And I have not hiked since the last posting. I thought I would try to restart the momentum in this new year by posting some work I have done along the way. These ink paintings/drawings may or may not be the "official" work for this project, but I as these develop and change, I am beginning to see the shape of some work to come.So:
_Cirque_
Ink and gesso on paper30 x 41 inches
2013
_When You See Me Again, It Will Be In Mountains_ Ink and gesso on paper41 x 30 inches
2013
_Opening the Mountain_ Ink and gesso on paper41 x 30 inches
2013
_Monadnock Ice 1_
Ink and gesso on paper30 x 41 inches
2013
_Monadnock Ice 2_
Ink and gesso on paper41 x 30 inches
2013
_What Is It That Moves?_ Ink and gesso on paper41 x 30 inches
2014
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2013 MOUNT MONADNOCK #3: WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES? Watching the snow fall gently on the cypress trees outside my kitchen window, I am reminded that I have yet to post my latest hiking experience. Early on a frigid Thursday morning, November 21, 2013, I headed up Mount Monadnock for the third time, third, that is, in relation to this project. I have retired the home-made GPS drawing device. It was a great experiment, but for whatever reason proved an unreliable tool. In the spirit of the project this is an acceptable outcome. So from now on, I am the device. I am (as always) a pointmoving in space.
November 21st was a day just like this... cold, cold, cold and clear, clear, clear; reminding me of something I had heard from the venerable zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, that the true nature of mind is always clear, like the bluest of skies. With this thought I decided to take the trail up the mountain that I had on my first time up for this project: White dot to Red Spot using the Cascade Link, then Pumpelly Trail to the summit. I was curious as to how this hike might be the same or different from it's predecessor. As I set off from the parking area I was relieved that this was a fairly calm day. The wind was at a minimum. Fortunate, as the temperature was well below freezing. Hat and gloves, multiple layers, hot coffee and spare socks, walking stick--check, check, check, and check. The air was crisp and it felt quite refreshing to step off on a brisk morning into the forest. Within the first hundred yards I encountered a fundamental difference from my previous time up thistrail... ice.
Frozen puddles and icicles were ubiquitous. It was not long before I began to see that a good deal of the trail was going to be like this:And this:
And this:
And this:
So what I was seeing and feeling was the mountain passing through the season. Or was it the season passing through the mountain? Does this amount to the same thing? Can a mountain move? According to Dogen, in his _Mountains and Waters Sutra_, mountains walk. One may think he was writing metaphorically, but I think not... there is _not_ a lot of metaphor in zen (and there _is_ a lot of metaphor in zen). Or is it that the seasons are always there and the Earth turns into them? What is it that moves? I am a point moving in space. Or is the mountain the space that is moving through me? Same or Different? These were the questions that arose and subsided with each step until they were just kind of hovering there with me, companions along the way. As Rilke wrote in Letters to a Young Poet,_ "Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."_ I began to feel myself occupying the space between dualities, not the same or different, not outside or inside, not water, not ice; like a brook that is still moving, still water, but on the verge of being ice. The liminal or _between_ space. A threshold. In this space there is only hearing, seeing, walking, a heart that beats. It is not that _I_ see, _I_ hear, _I_ walk, _my_ heart that beats... the experience is outside that kind of dualistic thinking that separates, divides, categorizes. It is the mind that holds, _"What is it that moves?"_ without trying to answer it. But the mind's function is to think and, so, then comes perception, formations, attachments, etc. I quite naturally and somewhat without noticing the difference in mindset began to aestheticize my experience and think of it in terms of art. As I photographed frozen pools and hair/needle ice (see image below) I thought of William Henry Fox Talbot's _The Pencil of Nature_, not so much the book, which was an important and influential work in the history of photography, but the phrase, the _pencil of nature_ or nature's pencil._ _Talbot's metaphor, to me, rings false, as wild nature does not make art or, more specifically, does not draw. Conditions are such that certain phenomena happen. We, the perceivers, aestheticize them but, beautiful and wondrous as they are, they are still, simply, instances of wild nature. Perhaps our need to call them art or art-like is a need to reconnect to our own wild mind (what I think we do when we draw). That being said, as I photographed the following images, I thought immediately, "these are like... drawings."Hair or Needle Ice
Enso: In zen buddhism, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The _ensō_ symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe. It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics. So what is it that moves? Is it the seasons? Is it the mountain? Is it the body (the point) that passes through space? I brought the question to _dokusan_ (an interview with a zen teacher) at the Worcester Zen Center. His response, notice I did not say answer, was, "Yes. That is a wonderful question. Good for you."_Monadnock Ice _
ink and gesso on paper30 x 41 inches
2013
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013 MT. LAFAYETTE: THE WAY OF MOUNTAINS _Amid ten thousand streams up among_ _thousands of clouds, a man all idleness__
_ _wanders blue mountains all day long,_ _returns at night to sleep below cliffs.__
_ _In the whirl of springs and autumns,_ _to inhabit this calm, no tangles of dust:__
_ _it's sheer joy depending on nothing,_ _still as an autumn river's quiet water.__
_ --Han Shan (Cold Mountain) translated by David Hinton On October 16, 2013, I "walked" up Mount Lafayette (5260 feet) in New Hampshire via Little Haystack (4760 feet) and Mount Lincoln (5089 feet) along the Franconia Ridge. I reached the ridge by ascending up the Falling Waters Trail. The descent took me down the Greenleaf Trail to the Old Bridle Path (Thoreau's way up). It was a nearly 9 mile loop through mist, clouds, bright sun, and wind. It was an arduous hike; steep ascents on slick rock and crossing Falls Brook several times on the way up. While Mount Katahdin was a strenuous climb and the mountain's being, bearing, and views were spectacular, my time with Mount Lafayette and its companion peaks has proved, so far, to be my most aesthetically stimulating and spiritually movingexperience.
For all that this project will eventually result in artworks, this hike is the first in which I actually thought about art. From the outset, as mist rose off the cascading Falls Brook into the tree tops diminishing visibility to about 25 yards, I felt that I was walking through a Sung (or Yuan or Tang or...) Dynasty landscape painting. I have often felt kinship with the "mountains and waters" painters and poets and the aesthetics that underpin their work. Taoism and later Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism very often informs their choices both formally and in terms of content. In his book _Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China_, David Hinton, outlines the philosophy behind, not only the poems (and, by extension, paintings), but more significantly the lives of the makers. What one finds is no separation between poet/subject and form and content/object. The human is melded with the wild: one cosmology. This point of view elides with my own which despite its ancient roots, I believe, to be intrinsically relevant to today's aesthetic discourse and notions of the marriage of process and content. Hinton writes, "... the importance of the rivers and mountains poetic tradition is not by any means limited to Chinese culture, for it is a poetry suffused with a worldview that is, however foreign _(to Western sensibilities)_, remarkably contemporary and kindred: it is secular, and yet profoundly spiritual; it is thoroughly empirical and basically accords with modern scientific understanding; it is deeply ecological, weaving the human into the "natural world" in the most profound way; and it is radically feminist--a primal cosmology deriving in some sense from Paleolithic spiritual practices centered around a Great Mother who continously gives birth to all things in the unending cycle of life, death, and rebirth." The animating principle of this paradigm is _tzu-jan. _Again, Hinton, "The literal meaning of _tzu-jan_ is _self-ablaze_... But a more revealing translation of _tzu-jan_ might be _occurrence appearing of itself_, for it is meant to describe the ten thousand things (or the stuff of the universe) emerging spontaneously from the generative source, each according to its own nature, independent and self-sufficient, each dying and returning into the process of change, only to reappear in another self-generating form." From Hsieh Ling-yun (385-433 C.E.)As for my
homes perched north and south inaccessible except across water: gaze deep into wind and cloud and you know this realm utterly. And to add a contemporary "voice": Pat Steir The ascent took me over boulders, roots, and watercourses and often I found myself climbing straight up. I was more tired out (though exhilarated) after only about 3 miles than at any time on any previous hike, including Katahdin. At times there were only the stones in front of me. Great stone upon great stone. Moss and stone. Water and stone.Root and stone.
And then I turned around. As I approached the tree line I found myself above a cloud forest...like Han Shan:
_If you're climbing Cold Mountain Way,_ _Cold Mountain Road grows inexhaustible:__
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_long canyons opening across fields of talus,_ _broad creeks tumbling down mists of grass.__
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_Moss is impossibly slick even without rain,_ _but this far up, pines need no wind to sing.__
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_Who can leave the world's tangles behind_ _and sit with me among these white clouds.__
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(...like Georgia O'Keeffe. Her view was from an airplane, but I did think of this painting briefly) Coming out on Little Haystack I was afforded a view of the Franconia Ridge and the trail leading over Mt. Lincoln to Lafayette. A flock of about a dozen ravens soared up and down the face of the mountain. Great shaggy birds gliding through a curtain of cloud. Clouds were pouring into the valley and onto the peaks sometimes obscuring the trail. But a gust of wind would raise the curtain and reveal views of the surrounding peaks... like Washington and Mount Liberty. I'd met a few hikers along the way, those going up and coming down. And I was put in mind of how there is always a human presence in those ancient paintings, whether it be a figure, a boat, a hut, pagoda, or temple. We often tend to think of nature in its so-called pristine state as being devoid of human presence, but we occupy this planet and live all over it. It's just that we have lost the way of living lightly upon it. If we can remember that we belong to this place, not vice versa, then perhaps we can re-inhabit it, or rather join with it again... seeing it and being seen by it as mutual embodiments of each other. Or as American poet Gary Snyder wrote in his essay _Opening the Mountain_, “Nature, not in the abstract, but (like anybody) a kind of being, actually there to respond to being seen in themoment.”
Coming over Mt. Lincoln I came upon the most unusual flora I'd yet to encounter on any hike; a spongy purple moss that I've yet to identify, but believe to be a type of sphagnum or peat moss. The Franconia Ridge is an alpine tundra zone and is home to a variety of flora, including the same phosphorescent green lichen that I found on Katahdin. In fact, all along the trail I encountered mosses growing on everythingand fungi aplenty.
I ate lunch on Lafayette peak in the company of ravens, wind, and four lichen coated angular stones that I dubbed the Four Immortals. Hot tea, apples, PB&J. Mount Lafayette as seen from Mount LincolnFour Immortals
I made my way down through clouds, cairns, and scree. I looked back a few times at where I'd been and noticed I still carried the feeling I'd had at the outset. It wasn't a grasping or trying to hold on to something intangible, but rather a kind of continuous flow... like falling water, like wind-bourne clouds, like seeing and being seen. Posted by Tim McDonaldat 11:52 AM
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