Given the chance, an inner voice answers the hurlyburly of the world.
Observation of a different kind, a dialogue with the spirit.
The word monk derives from the Old English munuc, before that from the Latin monachus, and before that from the Greek monos, meaning ‘alone’ and monakhos, meaning ‘solitary’.
In ancient Greece, both women and men could be considered monks.
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All images ©Kathryn Chorney.
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- Three thoughts about layers, fissures, geologic time.
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- Compositions and passages.
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- A mashup of two different book pages. On the left, a page devoted to the “don’t wait – meditate” philosophy in the few minutes before a meeting starts. On the right: part jewel, part eyeball, part manta ray.
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- Elements and linkages, strong and weak forces, animal faces.
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- Noiseless.
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- Plant and bug faces. I seldom draw faces, but knowing how much most people like them, I do try.
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- Leaning forms.
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- Thinking about integration, and jewel-like forms.
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- I often try to spare moments to draw trees; I’m most attracted to maples, whose trunks, twisting and turning, reflect their slow timelines of growth. Later when I’m thinking about them, they look like this.
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- Dividing forms. Pattern produced by a simple formula.
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- Playing with mirrored forms, plant-like, and animal faces.
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