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DreamMaking
Quest as realization in Dogen's Zen
Free and Easy Wandering
Quest with nonduality in Taoist yoga
Abstract and Figurative
Tantra
Radical Adepts
Books
The Someone in Painting/A 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 from 1973 to 2014, Richard Stodart examines the relationship of self and reality along transcendental/static and realizational/dynamic lines in the painting experience. In the process, differentiation and equality, delusion and enlightenment, thinking and meditation, a picture and painting are mediated in and through a 'someone' on a personal and impersonal level.
DreamMaking: The Intimacy of Picture/Reality
Words by Dr. Hee-Jin Kim • Paintings by Richard Stodart
Fourth Lloyd Productions, 2013
84 pages, paper ISBN: 978-0-9889391-1-0
10" x 7", 22 color plates $39.95
In DreamMaking, human fallibility (amid delusion/dream) and human perfectability (beyond delusion/dream) entwine as foci of the process of calibration and the state of equilibrium. From this nondual perspective, one lives amid/beyond dream by expounding/making a dream within a dream, in and through the deconstructive/reconstructive function of emptiness, without blurring the differences between duality and nonduality.
Free And Easy Wandering: Markings On the Way
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.