Olivier Burckhardt
@obfuchai.bsky.social
OB's Floating Studio 浮齋 (fuchai/fuzhai): gliding through the flotsam & jetsam – a virtual skiff navigating through #Writing, #AsianCalligraphy, & #Photography. Banner calligraphy is adapted from Mi Fu 米芾 (1051-1107)
The perfume of a Buddha's Hand on a Shigaraki daizara 台皿 / platform platter by Takahashi Rakusai III 三代 高橋楽斎 (1898-1976)
Ginko leaves dedicated to our Accidental Gardener @thecrowstoes.bsky.social during this leave-gathering times
For tea the first step is boiling water... at times this is best reminded by listening to the wind-in-pines sound of water when it is heating under the embers of a handful of charcoal
Study of a trinity: wooden table surface; circular ceramic cup; minipulated light modulation (via exposure/angle of view)
Familiar Objects A silver fork, the stem of a glass; set at a slight angle against the wood-grain of the table.
The perfection of imperfection Japanese charred cedar drop lid Yakesugi otoshibuta 焼杉 落としぶた
Thoughts on almost insignificant things: Finally got my father's bicycle lantern working again. He was born in 1901, which made me a late issue ! But back to the familiar 100 odd year old lantern, we live in such a brighter world today, but somehow I doubt it is a better one--perhaps even harsher !
Reading or hearing the words of someone else (or even our former self) allows us to temporarily be in another's mind--not necessarily as an escape from our own--it makes us listen to something other than our own prattle, no matter if we choose to agree or disagree, it is other than our own prattle.
Sunday afternoon... and it's time to listen to Duke Ellington and his Orchestra's Diminuendo in Blue
Tree Dahlia (Dahlia imperialis)... is a winter bloomer in our antipodean garden
Notes for the times… The wise person knows they do not know: They surround themselves with able helpers. The fool firmly believes they know: They surround themselves with other fools. The majority follow the fool out of insecurity: (?) They surround the fool until the lynching (¿)
Can't help but think that the only way to overcome the dark rigid ways of these days is the constant gentle wind that can dispels the dark clouds to reveal the intrigues and machinations that shun the light of day ... Awakening consciousness in the depths can only be through gentle cultural means
作意 yi zuo vs 意作 zuoyi In seals both readings are possible In most ancient times seals were read left to right, only later arose the now common right to left reading
A thought keeps me up, by its sheer weight... A keystone is much like our soul: it bears down upon us to keep up the vault of our being
