Dojo-Studio

'..Your experience with creatitivity should serve you well as far as this discussion goes. When you paint a picture …you are dealing with transformation of energy and a transformation of camouflage pattern. There is a moment, a brief but vital moment in such an act of creation, when you are dealing with the underlying vitality of which I have spoken. You are forced because of your earthly physical situation to transform this creative energy into another camouflage pattern. There is nothing else you can do. But for the moment you pluck this vitality from the inner senses, you grab a hold of this fuel with both hands. You have it. You transform it into a somewhat different and more evocative new camouflage pattern, which is nevertheless, more fluent, more fluid, than the usual pattern and which gives greater freedom and mobility to the basic fuel or vitality itself. You approach a transmigration of planes.

A certain distortion must be expected …The painting in other words achieves a certain freedom from camouflage, while it cannot escape it and it actually hovers between planes in a way that no completely camouflaged object could do. That is, something that exists completely in your plane cannot be evocative in the manner that a painting...can be...' Session 19