If you are big,Nothing can stop you.The difficulty of life, the pain and tears, everything would enrich you.If you are big,the sky above, the earth you stand on, the water below – they will support you.You will open your senses:The vast mind, the big heart,Will hear the cries and laughters,Will see all the colors and … Read More
Winter Joy – Solo Show
I love Mary Oliver’s poems. I love to walk with her scenery through those magical, simple words. Like the one pagraph I read this morning: I often think of Beethovenrising, when he couldn’t sleep,stumbling through the dust and crumpled papers,yawning, settling at the piano,inking in rapidly note after note after note.~Mary Oliver, 1935, Dream WorkIn … Read More
Solo Show – The Musicality and Mysticism of the Mundane
– Yeachin Tsai’s ‘Winter Joy’ Exhibition, Troy, NY Robert R. Shane The cold, bleak season of winter has long stood as a metaphor for loss and death, but not so in Yeachin Tsai’s exhibition ‘Winter Joy.’ Her exuberant representational and abstract compositions sing with vitality. The exhibition’s title painting, on 12 x 12 inch panel, resounds with … Read More
Space Is Wealth – Wild Orchid
Space is wealth. Like a wild orchid enjoys the mountain fresh air: clear the clutter clear the mind. Sumi ink on paper. Auspicious Ink
Timely Rain
Again and again, I remember this poem from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s “Timely Rain”: In the jungles of flaming ego, May there be cool iceburg of bodhicitta. On the racetrack of bureaucracy, May there be the walk of the elephant. May the sumptuous castle of arrogance Be destroyed by vajra confidence. In the garden of gentle … Read More
Waterfall
Remembering the sound, smell, light, and magic of waterfalls. Everything changes constantly, drastically. Standing by the waterfalls: just be, here and now. Be still in all the movements. Aware of the energy flowing. It’s like having a good conversation with the universe. The present moment contains everything. Bathing in the moment of complete fullness… The … Read More
Autumn Storm
The autumn storm swept away all the remaining leaves on the trees. The snow is falling and the winter is coming. Appreciating the changes of seasons and changes of life. It is not a bad thing; it is powerful and fulfilling.Acrylic on canvas. 40 x 40 in. See this piece on Saatchi
Abstract Waves
I am not a mystic. However, taking a walk in the woods in autumn, we can truly connect to the elements in the nature world: the leaves are changing colors and falling; the clouds moving dramatically, sometimes reveal some patches of clear blue sky; the smell and touch sensations of a pine tree forest. The … Read More
A Hundred Dragons
Dragons are inscrutable, playful, powerful and mysterious. They are beyond all boundaries, moving in all spaces with tremendous freedom and clear seeing. They are the energy, the force itself. When the mind is truly genuine and free, there is no limit to its possibilities.Acrylic on canvas. 26 x 26 in.
The Sea at Dawn
Remembering the fanatic view that lasts lifetime? The sea at dawn: when heaven and horizon, the air and sea waves, all mixed together. There is no boundary in the great mystic atmosphere.Acrylic on canvas, mounted on wood panel. 28 x 20 in.