Painting the Dao

120 ak23.42 Within the Stone Distinction Evaporates Ink and watercolour on cloud-dragon paper 97 × 185 cm, Sussex, August 2023 Six 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) 山外山樵 Shanwai shanqiao (Mountain woodcutter who is not in the mountains) 竹虛老人 Zhuxu laoren (Old man as empty inside as bamboo) 攜杖老人 Xiezhang laoren (Old man who carries the staff ) 石狂 Shikuang (Stone fool) inscr iption Leonardo said that there are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. The same is true of a strange stone: there are those who treat it as a portal and unite with it, those who aspire to doing so, and those who will never understand. Inscribed by the Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat at the Garden at the Edge of the Universe in the summer of 2023.