A Gross Expression of Zen - 2022

Acrylic paint on 144 unstretched canvas panels

Panels are each ~(20” x 20”)

Zeugma: a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts).

Enso: In Zen, an ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. Once the ensō is drawn, one does not change it. It evidences the character of its creator and the context of its creation in at a moment in time. Drawing ensō is a spiritual practice that one might perform as often as once per day.

Gross: (n) 1) an amount equal to twelve dozen; 144

(Adj) 1) general or large-scale

2) unattractively large or bloated

3) very obvious and unacceptable; blatant

A Gross Expression of Zen is on display at Contemporary Art International in Acton, MA https://contemporaryartsinternational.org/