Onement VI

What sort of person would want to own a Barnett Newman "Zip" painting?

What sort of person would paint it?

Not the same sort of person.

The way we look at the world is different when we think the world is dying.

We need to protect our minds as much as we need to protect the environment.

The issues are not out there, they're in here in each of us.

If you look at a Barnett Newman painting long enough you'll see the two sides of art--representation and abstraction--begin to come together, to unseparate their separateness.

It's like looking at a mind that's decided to do something about duality, and is finally seeing that duality is the arbitrary division about what's inside one and what's outside, and that each is actually one.