Girl with fan -idea for sculpture maybe -

Thought of the day

                        Its  taken all my life to get  here , to finally  understand. God what a waste !


                        Its taken me all my life, fooling around   - God what fun that was !

E X I L E

                        The city holds you 

                        In its flagrant dream -

                        Amsterdam  engorged  you

                         Like an anaconda -

                        You became part 

                       Of its murky Venitian

                                Veins ,

                        Its sordid alley-ways -

                        The sixties dream

                      In hippy  hashish

                                          Raga rooms -

                      Seedy tram clanging quarters

                     And half-naked madonnas -

                     Erotic trances

                     In  Eastern cultural facades .

                     The city will not

                    Release you ,

                     Until you say

                    " I am greater than you - 
                       
                    And all those that went
                    
                    Before me -escaping from 

                   Its thrall

                   Spewed back

                    Into the world  that you

                   So much despised !

      .

Exiled dreamer , sketch cafe amsterdam

Thought of the day - in verse

                     The world we know 

                      An illusion -

                      Created by

                      Collective mind .



                     The world we view

                     A collusion 

                     Invented by 

                     The partial blind .

More wood engravings from the 1960''s

wood engraving Londen 1963 entitled Rite

Lyn Chadwick and painting Jan Cremer Zwolle

composition in red Zwolle fundatie musea

small sketches made on holiday in Germany .

Down to Dusseldorf

                     Travelling  light 

                      Down  to Dusseldorf -

                     God - it takes a life-time 

                     To leave all ones  baggage

                          Behind -  !

                     Neither in being  or non - being

                     Travelling light 

                      Down to Dusseldorf-

                      

                    Sailing like the clouds 

                     With all that azure  space beyond  !

                    

                               

                              note - neither in ----- is a quote from Zen flesh zen bones by Paul Reps  One                                         hundred   ways of centering    from Kashmir . ( one of my all -time favourite texts )