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When Art Encourages Accidents
When Art Encourages Accidents. . . This is a very strange topic, one that I’d rather not discuss, especially since it strikes so close to
The Art of Collaboration
The Art of Collaboration . . . For details of the Art of Collaboration scheduled in Tokyo for Sunday March 3rd see: https://www.facebook.com/events/159716720847781/ His question
Genesis Art Workshops travel to Tsunami-hit Oshiki
A proposal to offer a Genesis collage workshop in one of the hardhit tsunami-destroyed towns in Miyage prefecture (Oshiki) has been accepted! The theme will
The Art of Taking a Weekly Rest
I’ve begun celebrating the Sabbath here in Tokyo as a complete day of rest. No television. No phone calls. No computers, no Kindle or iphones
Inner Peace
What is the world coming to? Lego Corporation has jumped on the card-production band wagon and created its own ‘spiritual’ line of cards. They arrived
The Money Crunch
I’m writing this post in response to reading a post by a writer who is deeply upset that she can no longer pay the rent
Signposts on the Journey of Life
The art on this Lesley College application form stunned me — as I opened up this page just hours after Shoko Yatabe painted this beautiful
When the Drums Beat On
During a peaceful day of painting with Shoko Yatabe, we were so focused on making these abstract mandalalike patterns that it never occurred to us
Montana’s Way of Drumming
Montana King Ramsey–my son’s drumming teacher here in Tokyo, was telling us today how he taught himself the drums. He was playing bongos in Philadelphia
The front and the back of the creative process
In front of our eyes the world stretches out as much as we allow it in. When we are leading myopic lives, attached to our
The First Human Genesis Cards
Meet Melisa Eugenio, the first human Genesis Card. Melisa and I go back to 1994, when we both were teaching at Gakushuin, the elite high
In praise of photography
How cheap has photography become? So cheap that we don’t even have to pause and breath before snapping. We don’t have to frame, compose, breath
The Art of Self-Introduction
When meeting people for the first time do you get nervous? Do you feel like your whole life is being reduced to a location, a
Five years go by in a flash
Five years ago, the first week of November, I opened Genesis art Lounge on Nodai Dori, the busy shopping street near our home in the
The Outward Form of the Inward Search
In 1987 I traveled to my mother’s country, England, to visit family in London. After kissing my grandparents goodbye, I traveled southwest to Devon and
Smile and the world smiles with you!
When Mirai drew herself smiling, the confidence she saw in the pretty young woman smiling back at her gave her confidence to draw wonderfully. This