Ode to the Human Face Seeing/Molding the Human Face as Meditation |
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| Author:
| Franck, Frederick |
| Photographer:
| Lopez, Luz Piedad |
| ISBN: | 978-1-930337-12-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Publisher: | Codhill Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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""Drawing, modeling faces, I seem to touch my model's ancestral, even its pre-human, hominid past, that first hint of human Existence--of just being here, that Mystery of mysteries. Buddhism speaks in a minor key of Sunyata, Absolute Nothingness, an Emptiness, however, replete with potentialities, referred to in more positive terms as Tathata, Suchness. "Behind each personality, each mask, there is the irreducible Reality of Sunyata, of that all-transcending Emptiness or Nothingness...
More Description""Drawing, modeling faces, I seem to touch my model's ancestral, even its pre-human, hominid past, that first hint of human Existence--of just being here, that Mystery of mysteries. Buddhism speaks in a minor key of Sunyata, Absolute Nothingness, an Emptiness, however, replete with potentialities, referred to in more positive terms as Tathata, Suchness. "Behind each personality, each mask, there is the irreducible Reality of Sunyata, of that all-transcending Emptiness or Nothingness from which all that is emerges in its Being/Non-Being." - from Ode to the Human Face "