Newsletter
This “Newsletter” contains a record of Gallery shows and works in progress since the formation of this website. The newsletter may also evolve into something more than just news. It may also be my sometime journal. I think I will permit myself to do some free brainstorming here.
For the most part the newsletter entries below are composed of links to MSWord documents instead of directly posted text. Some of the most recent information is posted first and directly as text. After that the other entries are chronological links with the later postings at the bottom.
The titles of the documents indicate the nature of the content so readers may seek out what they are interested in and forgo the kind of material that may not concern them.
The page of “Writings” will continue to be for more organized essays. If an idea seems to have acquired a sufficiently well organized shape here and is worthwhile the content may migrate to the page of writings, so don’t be surprised if things disappear from the newsletter page now and then.
Kenji
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4/16/2010
I have not made an entry here in a long time. This is probably because I have never been all the way sure how I want to use this, quote, newsletter. Do I want to use it simply as a location for progress reports on the various projects, or do I want to use it to bare my soul? To be too revealing often proves to be a mistake. Tell people the truth too often and eventually somebody will use it against you. At minimum someone will think small of you for being so foolishly honest.
Many friends are running blogs these days. I don’t want to put up a blog. I am not interested in commentary on either my art or my theological ideas, not here. I have been through that experiment with the several yahoo lists that I have either owned or posted to in the past. In the end it seems those conversations almost always end up dominated by obsessive personalities that are really just seeking their own personal affirmations. The real truth-seekers are out in the world making genuine discoveries.
However, since I steadfastly refuse to satisfy people with detailed explanations of my admittedly cryptic artwork, and since only a very few people will read these words in the near term, I believe I will go with revealing my soul from time to time. I think I would like to have that content in the record for the years to come, years when I may no longer be around to explain myself. And, well, if you are a business associate, a gallery owner simply wanting to find out when the next crop is coming in, then there is nothing to force you to read my self-indulgences.
This little corner of the net has the advantage of being quiet for the moment. I could probably put real dynamite here and it would not blow up for years. Not to worry. I am not lighting any fuses just yet. Too many fires are already burning.
For tonight I think I just wanted to say that I can feel it coming on that I may soon choose to express controversial views here, views on art, on the Baha’i Faith, and perhaps on the world in general. I will not be dumping on individuals. That really would be too self-indulgent. I will not be going into my political views. I have them, but that is just too common and too local time-wise in its concerns. I want to write about things that are timeless.
So, if some "dear reader" does indeed come upon these words, consider yourself to be forewarned. What follows may or may not be to your liking. I don’t really care anymore. I am not going to be changing my art to please my contemporaries. Neither am I going to be changing my theological views to please dogmatic personalities no matter how well-intentioned they may be.
If my Baha’i friends do not like my art or my art friends do not like my religious orientation that is fine with me. I am as I am, take it or leave it. Patrons of the arts don’t need to like me to enjoy my paintings. Baha’is don’t need to understand my concept of eternity to accept me as a comrade in the recognition of the station of Baha’u’llah.
If you think I am just crazy that is ok with me too. It is probably good for sales. And yes, the paintings will be worth a lot more when I am dead. And with this heart and all my bad habits that may be any time now.
*** *** ***8/9/08 Notes re website launch
8/12/08 Info on newly posted images
8/14/08 AM Notes on website development, other writings and the universal “I am", Pirsig
8/22/08 First sale via website. “Seal of Solomon,” Tetragrammaton, praNava/aum.
4/16/2010 Development of newsletter to include personal journal.
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