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Riding the Bull Home

This is a special collection of prints I created from paintings made during an especially long and cold Buffalo Winter.

What I have attempted to convey in this series of work is my own feeling of what is sometimes joy, sometimes alienation, of living in a city that has the same name as an animal. I am also very interested in the arrangement of objects, or of the representations of objects, within a given space, which is something, I think, like the task of a Japanese rock gardener.

These prints are renditions of a larger group of paintings I made based on a reading of Chogyam Trungpa’s commentary on the Oxherding Pictures. The Oxherding Pictures are a 12th century Chinese series of pictures and words depicting a spiritual journey leading to enlightenment. The translations and commentary by many contemporary teachers have kept them fresh as a guide to spiritual practice. Riding the Bull Home is the 6th or mid-station of the passage from beginning back to beginning. It was where I felt myself to be at the time.
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