Buddhist Art
"WHAT IS REAL?
We are in the midst of reality responding with joy. It is an absolutely satisfying experience but extremely elusive. It is elusive because we must recognize so many other things at the same time.
The memory of past moments of joy leads us on. The responses of happiness and joy are our first concern.
Works of art have successfully represented our responses to reality from the beginning. The artist tries to live in a way that will make greater awareness of the sublimity of reality possible. Reality, the truth about life and the mystery of beauty are all the same and they are the first concern of everyone.
I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth, you will know it. The manipulation of materials in artwork is a result of this state of mind. The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind."
- Agnes Martin
Eloise Larson has lived as an artist nearly since birth. Her life and art have evolved as lives and art will. Recently, her work has become much closer to immediate self-expression than it has in the past. She owes this to her developing devotion to and practice in Buddhism and her great fortune in finding her Spiritual Master, Reverend Master Eko Little.
"The artist does not address his homage to another artist, a master or an influence, but to a holy man, an apostle of tolerance and love, like Saint Francis of Assisi." - Wolfgang Laib
The marks you see in her art are what remain when the self steps back and her religious experience steps forward.
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