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mas nakajima suiseki group for sale 06 monday dec 2021 posted by sam edge in suiskei leave a comment tags mas nakajima sale suiseki i am happy to announce a group of suiseki by mas nakajima are available for purchase the current catalog is available here mas nakajima suiseki sale 269 this catalog of stones for sale will be updated as items are sold and additional stones will be added over time a few suiseki with bases made by others are also included please make note of the following information some of the stones for sale are large and heavy and thus the buyer will need to work with janet to arrange for someone to pick up the stone and if necessary box and ship it to you for smaller stones janet will box and ship them the shipping costs will be included in the payment due payment is by paypal friends and family janet will ship the suiseki to you after payment is received it might take some time for her to get it done depending on circumstances but she promises she will be in regular communication even if the perfect stone for you is not in this list i hope you enjoy viewing them thank you for your consideration and enjoy you can find contact information for janet here https suisekiart com janet roth if you have any questions also feel free to contact me best sam mas nakajima s suiseki for sale 01 thursday apr 2021 posted by sam edge in suiskei leave a comment i m happy to announce another group of mas nakajima s suiseki are available for purchase thirty one stones have been posted representing some of mas finest collecting and daiza making please take note some of these stones are quite large and heavy it is important to take notice that some will require you to work with janet on finding someone to box and ship the stone for smaller stones janet can manage these for you due to the volume of sales and the current covid 19 environment it may take a number of weeks before your purchase can be shipped but i assure you the wait time is less than you going up to the eel river finding a stone letting it develop it s patina and then making a daiza for it many of these fine suiseki are going to go quickly just a warning in the event that the perfect stone for you is not in this list there will be future sales thank you for your consideration and enjoy viewing them on her website click here to go to the sales page edge artworks launches 02 thursday may 2019 posted by sam edge in art bonsai pots bunzan chinese pot chrysanthemem stones diaza doban japan photography suiban suiseki suiskei leave a comment kj and i have discussed for a while if we should sell a part of our collection of stones stand and the like after much discussion a site was built to do just that http www edgeartworks com the commerce website contains some fine suiseki from japan and viewing stones from the united states and china a number of bonsai pots dobans and suibans are available primarily sourced from japan but also elsewhere stands which seem to be hard to find these days are also available in different shapes and sizes most are from japan and were imported many years ago check out the bronze given to us from mr saburo kato s family shortly after his death this would be a wonderful display piece with either a stone or tree bronze temple from the saburo sato collection there are also a number of books primarily bonsai books with a few suiseki catalogs lastly there are about 60 deep sky photos that can be printed from 12 inches to as large as 60 inches if you have interest in the photos just email us and we can discuss sizes and finishes our home as m42 the great orion nebula hanging above our fireplace it was printed 52 inches square on canvas m42 the great nebula in the constellation of orion we attempt to ship within 24 hours of an order international orders can not be competed directly from the website just email us with the sku number and we can make arrangements to ship things to you feel free to browse and we thank you for doing so lastly if you would like for us to help you sell something similar to what we have listed just reach out to us and we can discuss best sam and kj she just needed to be who she really was 12 tuesday feb 2019 posted by sam edge in art bonsai suiskei 1 comment before i begin please take a few minutes to read this true story as documented in the book the element how finding your passion changes everything by sir ken robinson c 2009 the element gillian was only eight years old but her future was already at risk her schoolwork was a disaster at least as far as her teachers were concerned she turned in assignments late her handwriting was terrible and she tested poorly not only that she was a disruption to the entire class one minute fidgeting noisily the next staring out the window forcing the teacher to stop the class to pull gillian s attention back and the next doing something to disturb the other children around her gillian wasn t particularly concerned about any of this she was used to being corrected by authority figures and really didn t see herself as a difficult child but the school was very concerned this came to a head when the school wrote to her parents gillian lynne with her mother barbara in 1932 the school thought that gillian had a learning disorder of some sort and that it might be more appropriate for her to be in a school for children with special needs all of this took place in the 1930s i think now they d say she had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and they d put her on ritalin or something similar but the adhd epidemic hadn t been invented at the time it wasn t an available condition people didn t know they could have that and had to get by without it gillian s parents received the letter from the school with great concern and sprang to action gillian s mother put her daughter in her best dress and shoes tied her hair in ponytails and took her to a psychologist for assessment fearing the worst gillian told me that she remembers being invited into a large oak paneled room with leather bound books on the shelves standing in the room next to a large desk was an imposing man in a tweed jacket he took gillian to the far end of the room and sat her down on a huge leather sofa gillian s feet didn t quite touch the floor and the setting made her wary nervous about the impression she would make she sat on her hands so that she wouldn t fidget the psychologist went back to his desk and for the next twenty minutes he asked gillian s mother about the difficulties gillian was having at school and the problems the school said she was causing while he didn t direct any of his questions at gillian he watched her carefully the entire time this made gillian extremely uneasy and confused even at this tender age she knew that this man would have a significant role in her life she knew what it meant to attend a special school and she didn t want anything to do with that she genuinely didn t feel that she had any real problems but everyone else seemed to believe she did given the way her mother answered the questions it was possible that even she felt this way maybe gillian thought they were right eventually gillian s mother and the psychologist stopped talking the man rose from his desk walked to the sofa and sat next to the little girl gillian you ve been very patient and i thank you for that he said but i m afraid you ll have to be patient for a little longer i need to speak to your mother privately now we re going to go out of the room for a few minutes don t worry we won t be very long gillian nodded apprehensively and the two adults left her sitting there on her own but as he was leaving the room the psychologist leaned across his desk and turned on the radio as soon as they were in the corridor outside the room the doctor said to gillian s mother just stand her for a moment and watch what she does there was a window into the room and they stood to one side of it where gillian couldn t see them nearly immediately gillian was on her feet moving around the room to the music the two adults stood watching quietly for a few minutes transfixed by the girl s grace anyone would have noticed there was something natural event primal about gillian s movements just as they would have surely caught the expression of utter pleasure on her face at last the psychologist turned to gillian s mother and said you know mrs lynne gillian isn t sick she s a dancer take her to a dance school i asked gillian what happened then she said her mother did exactly what the psychologist suggested i can t tell you how wonderful it was she told me i walked into this room and it was full of people like me people who couldn t sit still people who had to move to think she started going to dance school every week and she practiced at home every day eventually she auditioned for the royal ballet school in london and they accepted her she went on to join the royal ballet company itself becoming a soloist and performing all over the world when that part of her career ended she formed her own musical theater company and produced a series of highly successful shows in london and new york eventually she met andrew lloyd webber and created with him some of the most successful musical theater productions in history including cats and the phantom of the opera little gillian the girl with the high risk future became known to the world as gillian lynne one of the most accomplished choreographers of our time someone who has brought pleasure to millions and earned millions of dollars this happened because someone looked deep into her eyes someone who had seen children like her before and knew how to read the signs someone else might have put her on medication and told her to calm down but gillian wasn t a problem child she didn t need to go away to a special school she just needed to be who she really was a few thoughts you might ask what has this to do in a blog focusing on suiseki a good question so let me spend a few moments explaining why i ve been busy at work for more than two years researching how to view suiseki stones it has been a passion that has taken a great deal of my free time i have read hundreds of papers research articles and books on aesthetic with a special focus on japanese aesthetic through this process a discovery was made for me at least that there is no true universal definition of aesthetic between cultures and often even between similar groups of people most aesthetics focus on the concept of beauty however even in this definition beauty can be defined in so many ways what i have discovered is that most aestheticians link beauty with truth rising early to watch the sun break brilliantly across distant mountain tops standing in the late afternoon on the rocky shores of the ocean seeing and hearing the waves break below or watching the inherent beauty in a small child asleep and at peace there is not only beauty but real truth in these scenes at some future point it is my hope that all of this research will be gathered and focused into a book that will help its readers to begin to define their own aesthetic regardless of the artistic outlet be it stones painting or something returning to the story of gillian one can only imagine the loss to the world had the doctor not intervened to declare there was nothing wrong with gillian she is just a dancer how many artist dancers writers photographers comedians have been lost to the world simply because they were viewed as different and tragically so treated as if they were broken let s juxtapose for a moment ourselves into the world of suiseki for a moment how often have we stood before a beautiful stone asking someone what they see and before they can even respond we admonish them in what we see in it if you take note you might see a small frown appear on the other person s face how often do we see people courageously describe what they see in the stone for the expert to immediately bark at them that what they are seeing is wrong that it is not a but their viewpoint b how many new participants in our art form have we driven away because we haven t allowed them to participate and for them to have an opportunity to express what they see it reminds me of when masahiko kimura created this now famous bonsai upon its initial release this was frowned upon by the bonsai world it wasn t bonsai it didn t follow the accepted practices of the time surely there were other forest plantings but they were in a pot or slab that was horizontal to the ground this design broke the conventional rules over time it became recognized as a master work of design expressive beautiful and now often mimicked by others anytime there is a major change in an art style such as realism to impressionism the holders of the standard fight to maintain that hold and thus feel inclined to reject the new i caution each of us to allow others to see what they see attempt to understand what they are expressing through either their display or their interpretations as relayed in the earlier story but gillian wasn t a problem child she didn t need to go away to a special school she just needed to be who she really was in the same way who knows the very person who seems to be breaking the rules today may very well be creating a new form of art tomorrow su shi 蘇軾 chinese poet 11 tuesday dec 2018 posted by sam edge in art auction 4 comments tags chinese scroll su shi introduction su sh i simplified chinese 苏轼 traditional chinese 蘇軾 8 january 1037 24 august 1101 courtesy name zizhan chinese 子瞻 art name dongpo was a chinese writer poet painter calligrapher pharmacologist gastronome and a statesman of the song dynasty portrait of su dongpo by zhao mengfu su shi was born into a literary family in 1037 at the age of 19 he passed the highest level civil service examinations with flying colors and was marked out as a rising star within the world of officialdom his lucid eloquent essays greatly impressed emperor renzong 1010 1063 and by the time the young emperor shenzong 1048 1085 ascended to the throne in 1067 su shi was a respected figure among scholar officials at court during the song dynasty a period of unsurpassed refinement in the arts in china su shi had a brilliant and staggeringly varied career explains art critic alastair sooke a poet politician writer calligrapher painter and aesthetic theorist su shi was the pre eminent scholar of the song dynasty he was so prolific in so many different fields that it is very tempting to think of him as a proto renaissance man says sooke even though he was born four centuries before leonardo su shi was exiled to provincial huangzhou where he lived in relative poverty he built a farm in the foothills of what became known as the eastern slope dongpo and began to call himself master of the eastern slope su dongpo for all the hardships he experienced in exile it was during this period that he produced some of his most well known verses one of 12 leaves from the album stories of su dongpo by zou yig...
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