A Choir of Stones
by Nick Payne
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18.000 x 23.000 inches
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Title
A Choir of Stones
Artist
Nick Payne
Medium
Painting - Pastel Painting
Description
An appreciation for rocks has a long history. Historians, for example, say that at least two millenia back, the Chinese collected special rocks for aesthetic purposes. For Taoist monks certain stones represented the Tao. They used "scholar's stones" for contemplation and meditation in preparation for writing and painting.
Gongshi is the Chinese term for special stones that meet the above criteria and evoke something from the viewer. The transliterated word gong means "spirit" and shi equals "stone".
I share the Taoist appreciation for stones. Although beach rocks are too ordinary to be scholar's stones, I regard my paintings of rocks as representing the Creative Forces in the earth, and in that sense they are gongshi.
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June 22nd, 2012
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