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“I watched all in that garden and I spent a beautiful moment
because I wanted to know what was hidden behind all this. Is the Zen
no more or less than a vibration of something inner? When you utter
the word Zen, it resounds Z, there is the zzze and the nnne. The word
begins by a resonance and ends by a resonance, it is really the sense
of the Buddhism, of this Oriental culture where someone beats
something and we hear the harmonics. I asked myself about the
harmonic. Isn't that sound that we propagate, that is spreading and
that we repeat, a confined vision, a vision purely physical of the
harmonics, a periodic phenomenon? It is as if ourselves we need to go
to and fro, to turn and return to find again the road, to know the way
by heart, in order not to get lost. This periodicity of the memory, this
periodicity of the soul, this periodicity even of the concept and of the
feelings... And what I experienced... I spent moments in this Zen
garden looking at the visitors coming and going and I often asked
myself the question Can I have the courage to take pictures? but
in that case, my harmonics are breaking down! What a dilemma! I
was looking at the visitors and I was looking at myself. It was no
more no less than a form of Zen, of a turn and return between two
worlds, a means to find oneself again.”
A Japanese traditional penmanship.
It appears very similar in shape to an Arabic calligraphy.
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For further research, see:
Kouichi Honda, international Arabic calligraphy artist since 30
years (article CNN: August 24, 2000)
In traditional works, lines from a poem or the Koran are
surrounded by colorful, arabesque designs.
But Honda's works have little decoration, much like Japanese
calligraphy, and focus more on the swooshes and swirls of the Arabic
letters themselves. Honda's works are often large enough to cover
entire walls while traditional works are smaller wall-hangings.
Unlike classical Japanese calligraphy, which is written on a
plain or pastel background, Honda's work is often set on vivid
backgrounds.
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