Painting the Dao

116 ak23.35 The Homunculi of Consciousness Ink and watercolour on Arches paper and wood, with passport photograph of my father 115.5 × 103.5 cm, Sussex, 2021–22, finished July 2023 Five artist seals 水松石山房 Shuisongshi shanfang (Water, Pine and Stone Retreat) 如如居士 Ruru Jushi (Retired scholar who believes all doctrines equal) 石狂 Shikuang (Stone fool) Flying cranes [pictorial] 石 Shi (Stone) [painted] inscr iption The Homunculi of Consciousness Artists create homunculi of the self but are in turn homunculi of Nature which is a homunculus of infinite potential that can only be experienced directly beyond transmissible languages. What the artist’s homunculus produces is a homunculus of the audience which proliferates homunculi for as long as anyone is paying [attention]. Meaning is homunculi from edge to edge. Inscribed by the Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat chatting with an ancient tree in the Garden at the Edge of the Universe while expressing what lies beyond.