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MajioMonk Series II Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas2025
2025
$600
£453.38
€524.75
CA$841.77
A$936.29
CHF 491.18
MX$11,424.87
NOK 6,164.89
SEK 5,809.66
DKK 3,917.07
About the Item
Layers of Reality: Monk Series began with flashes of mendicant monks in Japan, South Korea and Hare Krishna monks prevalent in coastal cities of California since the 60’s. The practice of these mendicant monks is to take what is offered with no preference. The message for me in this time of global upheaval to stay centered with focused awareness of the moment is to trust that the right action will be known.
Layers of Reality Series acknowledges the layers of reality created by our perceptions in the practice of dropping down beneath what we perceive as the reality into another stream of information. It is a simple inquiry to invite a new perspective as feeling tones and images to seek other meaning and insight. The approach and use of materials is a way to invite in this shift. Layers of tissue paper laminated with cold wax give a sense of seeing into layers. There is pattern paper, rubbings, stencil markings and monoprints which have a freedom of spontaneity that invites in chance and random accidents. This Layers of Reality Series began with the Monk and Plumbline paintings arising from synchronistic events suggesting how the monastic practice can be experienced everywhere. The six large stand paintings bared the fruit of the early experimentation each opening to distinct ways of sensing into another layer of reality.
- Creator:Majio (1945, American)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:nonePrice: $600
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- Gallery Location:Santa Cruz, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2783216834942
Majio has training in the United State, several years in Europe with a Master’s degree from the Buddhist University of Naropa in Creation Spirituality. Her most influential training however was in Japan over a twelve year period. Her initial trip to Japan was to study Buddhist Art, but it quickly narrowed to the traditional arts of Zen and masters if that orientation in other cultural arts. It was not so much what was learned in a papermaking village, kimono dyeing studio or the making, filling and firing woodburning kilns but how to learn or, better said, how to practice. There are many words in Japanese for practice, the one here is the polishing of being. In painting, Majio has always flowed back and forth between figurative and abstract expression. The aesthetics and Cultural Arts--- like calligraphy and tea ceremony---- garnered during her apprenticeships in Japan, along with Zen practices and concepts weave many textures into her work. Majio’s pieces are created with the overarching concept that art is not a polarity between object and subject but rather, complementary, where each part works to define each other. Working from a collaborative process-with materials, with subject and with times, Majio releases herself as sole agent, even when hers are the only hands that touch the piece. This carries out to the viewer, opening a sense of participation, evoking involvement and discussion. Inviting a realization of recognizing and choosing to acknowledge a reality beyond what we have inherited provides a platform for evoking possibilities, innate joy and new vision.
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