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A Page from my sketchbook
Today each member of the class gives a presentation of their project work: &#;organics&#;. We each have about minutes to explain to our colleagues and tutors the story of our project work. The sketchbook is the medium here for tracing progress from initial subject idea to the visual research and design development that informs each of the eight swatches most of us have chosen for our final presentation. Many of the class began their preparation well before the Autumn School began. Mark, for example, had focused on walled gardens prior to choosing a corn on the cob from Jane&#;s shopping basket when it was suggested that it would be difficult in the confines of the drawing studio to draw and paint a walled garden &#; from life! That said his restrained, almost minimalist collection of swatches was impressive.
Marina&#;s Presentation
Known as the Group Crit, this exercise was most inspiring and highlighted the very different ways many of us had approac
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May those whose hell it is
To hate and hurt
Be turned into lovers
Bringing flowers.—Shantideva, eighth century
These lines are from chapter 10, stanza 9, of the Bodhicharyavatara (Way of the Bodhisattva), a Mahayana Buddhist text by the eighth-century Indian monk Shantideva. I first encountered this religious classic, originally written in Sanskrit, while working at Shambhala Publications. The excerpt above was adapted by author David Richo from a translation by the Padmakara Translation Group. Here’s in full, as translated by PTG:
May the hail of lava, fiery stones, and weapons
Henceforth become a rain of blossom.
May those whose hell it is to fight and wound
Be turned to lovers offering their flowers. [source]Other translations include those by Stephen Batchelor—
May the rains of lava, blazing stones, and weapons
From now on become a rain of flowers,
And may all battling with weapons
From now on be a playful exchange of flowers. [source]—and Fedor Stracke:
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