zen 

difficult not to

touch the realm of

zen

if one wants to unlearn

in ink that bleeds

naturally

in space

that forms

accidentally

in the wind

the scroll of calligraphy

holds itself not

let it be

even in the way of

a presentation

because what one learns

is to

unlearn

to be kind of -not quite in control

of uncontrollable

situations

even if the

calligraphy

is seen

all of a sudden

in a horizontal manner

the eastern mind

now nutured

with the western sense

a challenge to the innate

sense of space

of form

of notions

of all living experience

of all that one is too accustomed to :

the normal acceptable

visual codes

( works shown on this page were done approximately in 1998-1999, when an Association East West was founded in Florence, Italy)