White Tara, Dharmapala Thangka Centre
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The hands want to see, the eyes want to caress.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The dancer has his ear in his toes.
–Friedrich Nietzsche
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How would the painter or poet express anything other than his encounter with the world?
–Maurice Merleau-Ponty
These quotes are included in The Eyes of the Skin, by Juhani Pallasmaa. And the eye in Tara’s hand has always intrigued me.
Note: I am in New York for a few days. I have queued up a few small-scale directionals, gentle proddings that shift the way to view the familiar.
My only just celebrated his 22nd by having an eye-in-hand with tattooed on his back (joining a raven across his shoulders and three columns in Chinese of a poem). Quite something to see.
Have a good time in New York. J. will be in Boston in mid-September; am thinking of coming along.
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