Pipe Dream and Transmutation

Last week saw 

Pipe Dream 

installed 

at the Wimpfheimer Sculpture Park 

(thanks to the good graces of Doug Rice

and  Brian Wendler  and Bill Bendig

of the Hollycroft Foundation)

shortly after

Marya gave a beautiful welcoming 

for

a successful homecoming of Odysseus to the Egg 

(see clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik8knbzP9lo&t=62s)

And, 

I hope next week

you can come and enjoy

our next edition of Ripostes

as Alice and I exchange

a brief volley of poems 

from this Spring

bookended by her flute music

playing

Ferroud’s Bergere Captive 

 

and ending with Jade

love and hugs

d

Dan Potter
8 Hancox Street 
Stonington, CT 06378

Cell:  860 961 9439

google dan’s sculpture
to find dan’s website

http://home.earthlink.net/~danpottervia/id4.html 

and to connect with
Mystic Paper Beasts and
Dragon’s Egg Studio

Framed and Delivered

Peter Campos came to my studio two days ago

to choose a painting for his apartment

with a lively group of friends

 He selected this one:

Shamanic Trio

Oil on Canvas April 2019, Hanoi, Vietnam

Painter’s Note

Shamanic Trio shows Leonor Fini, Max Ernst and an unknown third artist who looks to me like a young Robert Rauschenberg.  An adolescent eye disease forced Leonor to wear bandages on both eyes.  When she recovered at 17 she decided to become an artist and she joined theParis art scene in 1924.  Posing with Max Ernst for a surrealist moment with feathers and the Virgin Mary, she looks ready for a parade I want to join with this painting.

It was painted in my studio on the corner of Lạc Chinh and Trần Tế Xương streets on Trúc Bạch island, Hanoi, Vietnam..

Today, on a bike ride, Faye and I discovered 

the painting already framed 

ready to be delivered 

as follows:

with love 

and hugs

d

Dan Potter

8 Hancox Street
Stonington, CT 06378

Cell:  860 961 9439

google dan’s sculpture
to find dan’s website

http://home.earthlink.net/~danpottervia/id4.html 

and to connect with
Mystic Paper Beasts and
Dragon’s Egg Studio

The Long Necklace of Buddha


Like a young Noguchi



Tiep is a sculptor and architect
living beauty


I met him through my dear friend, Lan Tue
who is creating yet a new Zen Spa
in a quiet and chic part
of the Hoy Tay Lake District of Ha Noi.



One morning she asked me to meet her at Tet Deco
his restaurant next door to her new house



and when he offered
to take us all



to his country place



very close to the airport
we fell in love


He discovered this place
in Dai Lai twelve years ago
with a xe om driver
who could not believe
he was interested in buying this muddy hill
so far from the city
(at that time before
today's new highways
and the Top Ten Resort
which borders it).





Now Tiep has a beautiful farm and tea plantation



plentiful with pampelmo,
wild potato, flower, and pig



seven little houses he has designed
for visiting friends



thinking of old ways and new
to love the land.


He offers you to come
and live simply for a week
or a month or two
in his paradise..



Bring meditative
creative friends



to enjoy his loving artful style together





in an ever growing
new landscape architecture.



You can be part of



his visionary sculpture.



as he gently welcomes all of us
to enter his dream



of "the real Viet Nam and new  ancient spaces



still unfolding from many hard working ancestors



where Tet happens every day"



You can make his heart sing



with Lan Tue



Huong



Son




and his dream of Buddha


by emailing:

tiephaiphong@yahoo.com


with love
and hugs
d



Dan Potter

40 Lac Chinh
Truc Bach,  Ha Noi
cell tel. 01263020497

google:  dan's sculpture
to find this site:
http://home.earthlink.net/~danpottervia/id4.html

Mailings to the U.S. after April 23
should go to 8 Hancox Street
Stonington, CT  06378

Mystic Paper Beasts and
dragonseggstudio.org

Tet Tuyet

Tet is coming, bringing ever warmer weather

to Tuyet greeting baby blossoms bicycling on trees.  

Quiet drones

make Spring landings

in Hanoian parks

and Suzanne springs to life

in her new ArtVietnam gallery

 wearing Maritta's colors

with experimental youth 

on Ly Quoc Su.

Mark's found quiet in a Gallant part of town

while Duy and I discover ourselves

reflected with the self portrait of a new artist 

at the Korean Cultural Center

Kim Jung Hyun_Khoang.

Meantime Len checks out

Truc Bach

with his old iphone

in my studio

with love and hugs

to all

d

Dan Potter

40 Lac Chinh
Truc Bac,  Ha No
cell tel. 01263020497

google:  dan's sculpture
to find this site:
http://home.earthlink.net/~danpottervia/id4.html

Mailings to the U.S. after April 23
should go to 8 Hancox Street
Stonington, CT  06378

Mystic Paper Beasts and
dragonseggstudio.org

Loving Bodhisatvas

Miracles continue to unfold

thanks to my friend, Zen Lam;

 

For Buddha's birthday
she invited me for a three day voyage
to visit three temples with her teacher, Thay
staying overnight in monasteries.

 

Deeply compassionate as a listener

and irresistibly loving,
Thay is also very playful and funny;
I love him.

Although wonderful surprises abounded in all three temple complexes

              
                   such as Arjuna as an early Buddha being guided out of the woods at Tay Tien

                                        
       and dawn fog lifting around a very high mountaintop Buddha on his birthday, at Yen Tu,

             my favorite monastery is Ha Long


                                     

         overlooking the famously endless bay
                                full of spirit rock islands:
                                       

          This is the view from the living room
                      for fortunate guests
                                above the monastery
 

                                      where Thay likes to visit
                                              talk to the abbess and do his email..

                                        
                                     
                                         

                                          Painting visitors
                                             together with the view from there



                                  
                                                                              
                                          I made a panoramic scroll of the view.



           
           
                                          Thay painted the lotus bud on the temple roof below

                                        opening

which is interesting

because
back in his monastery in HaNoi
       set in the center
             of the floor of zen mats

                                            


                                         
                                             up above the hall of Buddhist teachings

                                           

                                               right in the middle of the upper room

                                         

                                           where the original teachers of Viet Nam reside



       
                                                           
                                           is a case of aspirations:



                                      
                                         

Long before Franklin, Leyden,
Edison, Tesla and Reich,
the study of lightning rods
and enlightening energies
were viewed as closer together
than they are now:



 

 

Could proof of this
be in blinking, illuminated
past finials?

Come investigate.

In the meantime
here's a link
for a two minute film
of the long weekend
on You Tube:

http://youtu.be/wesgdFqduvI

 

with love
and hugs
to all
d