picture is reality
reality is picture

Fourth Lloyd Productions, 2016
268 pages, paper ISBN 978-0-9889391-2-7
8.5" x 10.5",199 color plates; 15 b/w plates $38.00

In this comprehensive retrospective of figurative and abstract paintings and drawings by Richard Stodart from 1973 to 2014, the artist pursues a line of inquiry with figure and ground as a nonduality, in and through 'someone' that mediates the relationship. In the process, the artist moves beyond the instrumental  view that dichotomizes self and reality, and encounters the realizational/dynamic view in which emptiness immerses itself in thinking and meditation,  differentiation and equality, delusion and enlightenment, as foci that conjoin in and through emptiness and are penetrated by emptiness. 

Fourth Lloyd Productions, 2007
84 page, paper ISBN: 978-0-9717806-3-7
8.5" x 11", 17 color plates $29.00

From ancient times to the present, from Homer's Odyssey to Dereck Walcott's epic poem, Omeros, the hero journeys to faraway places in search of adventure, freedom,  and wisdom, and returns home with humility to share the passion and advocacy of his quest with others.  

Inspired by Dragon's Play, a Taoist transmission of nonduality by Charles Belyea and Steven Tainer,  Free and Easy Wandering: Markings on the Way  tells the story of a journey that begins in isolation and ends in nonduality.   Twelve abstract paintings, called Markings, explore a deconstructive dynamic of autonomy, aloneness, and  detachment, in and through the transformative power of emptiness.