Tag Archives: change

A Contemplative Life – The Iris Painting on a Folding Screen = Returned

Posted on 12/17/2019 by kunstkitchen

Folding Screen with Dutch Irises

It was our student days,

When he asked me to paint a folding screen with irises. Continue reading →

Posted in Art and Architecture | Tagged a contemplative life, art, change, contemplation, environment, flower drawings, iris painting, life lessons, Oil painting, on dying, poem, rejection, relationships, revival | 6 Comments

Before The Frost = Autumn Poem

Posted on 10/16/2018 by kunstkitchen

Before the frost sets in
the flowers follow the sun defiantly
with no less beauty
next to faded blooms Continue reading →

Posted in Art and Architecture | Tagged autumn, change, environment, Flowers, Frost, houses, life, nature seasons, photography, poetry, trees | 2 Comments

Things Are Changing – About Transformation – The Koi Pond

Posted on 08/16/2018 by kunstkitchen

“Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn’t know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable … Continue reading →

Posted in Art and Architecture, photography | Tagged art, change, Dogen Institute, environment, inspiration, Koi, Koi pond, photography, poetry, Shohaku Okamura, transformation, zen master dogen, zen quotes | 1 Comment

Transformation – The Abandoned Garden

Posted on 12/08/2017 by kunstkitchen

At first look the objects seemed forlorn abandoned as they were along a lazy river each presented a phase of a life now past walked away from? A death in the family of ordered living. Nature moved. All the slow … Continue reading →

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Autumn Scene = Food for thought Friday

Posted on 10/09/2015 by kunstkitchen

First I became invisible, Then I disappeared Who will see me the way you do? Letting me go so slow, I’ll be gone and you won’t know when. Who will love you the way I do.