I stood transfixed

I stood transfixed listening...

and knew what can never be expressed; 

that the natural is supernatural, and that I am the eye 

that hears and the ear that sees, that what is 

outside happens in me, that outside and inside 

are unseparated.

Frederick Franck

The Zen of Seeing 

Photo:  Peter Bowers

seeing/drawing

Seeing/drawing is, beyond words and beyond silence,

the artist's response to being alive.  Insofar as it has 

anything to transmit, it transmits a quality of awareness.

...

And yet I know artists whose medium

is life itself, and who express the inexpressible

without brush, pencil, chisel, or guitar.

They neither paint nor dance.

Their medium is Being.

Whatever their hand touches 

has increased Life.  

They SEE and don't have to draw.  

They are the artists of being alive. 

Frederick Franck

The Zen of Seeing :  Seeing/Drawing as Meditation 

Photo:  Peter Bowers