From the Artist

One can discover one's organic forms through drawing, through the process we call "doodling." 

Doodling is doing with pen, pencil, or any medium, what it is we do, without initially knowing we are even doing it. If we can allow ourselves to express line, shape, form, and color without self-judgment, we are on our way to self-expression, real pleasure and ease.  These are the values available to anyone almost immediately upon drawing without self-judgment.

Much of the ritual of Zen practice entails what Shunryu Suzuki Roshi called the "Spirit of Repetition", which Spirit, in its breadth and depth includes essential artistic method. From Emptiness, the universal realm of Potential, comes infinite form, infinite joy.

Rather than knowing what we want to do, we should be encouraging the not-knowing of searching, playing, seeking, discovering.   When the value of coming upon the unknown form growing by and in ourselves is established, "how good it is" is seen for an extraneous or arbitrary judgment. We can instead simply find what delights us, and discover it often delights others.

The alternative to assessing how good our drawing is, is to color it! We "paint" a face, so to speak, on the drawing, growing new forms for the joy of the eye.

"Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you. There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth."
~ EECummings.

The Artist invites you to draw inspiration from his art and try it for yourself:

TO DISCOVER THE ORGANIC IN THE SEEMINGLY RANDOM

TO TRAVEL RANDOMLY   /TO PUT OUT

WAVES IN MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS  /TO TURN AND

CHANGE IN THE IMPULSE  /TO SEE

THE NEW IN THE CONSTANCY   /GOING FORTH

WITHOUT PLAN   /YET IN EXPERIENCE PERCEIVE

PERCEIVE AGAIN/  STAMP ON THE FLESH/

FEELING IN THE FINGERS   /FORM  IN THE EYE/

THE SOUND OF IMPROVISATION

EMBARKING DISEMBARKING

ALL ABOARD