and so...how to express this self that sees?

I began to see everything as a potential for making art. Sticks used by water pump repairmen, copper wire and bamboo pieces from an electric motor shop, waste wood from the workshop where carved window frames are cut. Paint from the hardware store. In the shapes from ordinary life I see the possibility of expressing the energies in my inner world. If I listen, the pieces talk to me. If I look they are looking at me... and the materials themselves seem to dictate what they should become.

It turns out that growing as an aritst and growing as a person are the same thing. Art is a spiritual practice and a very effective one. I learn to listen more deeply to the inner voice, letting creation happen by itself with less interference from 'me'.

For me "that which looks" is much more interesting than what we are looking at. If I can make art that reminds us of what, or who, is looking, inspired and informed by the nature of our own being, then I have done something useful, both for me and for whoever buys my work. In the end the secret of art is that art looks at us, from the inside out. We are both the eye that sees, and the I that is seen.