Painting the Dao

63 ak8.91 The Light Ink and watercolour on paper 38 × 17 cm, Sussex, winter 2003 One painted artist seal 石 Shi (Stone) Published The Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat, Beyond the Stage of Time , i: Realised Realms (Hong Kong: Rasti Chinese Art, 2020), 60 inscr iption The light is there deep in our unborn soul, a tiny glimmering of infinite luminescence – the rest is up to us. Inscribed for Richard at the Garden at the Edge of the Universe in the chill winter of 2003. Colophon [Not inscribed on the painting] Which Richard this was painted for has slipped beyond the reach of my memory, along with what I had for breakfast, but I’m rather glad he never got the chance to accept it. I think I hadn’t finished the halo at the time and then we both forgot about it. Must have been pissed.