Autumnal Rhythms

21•27•21•27

玄德

(3x7)，(3x9)

Reason 🢥 Charriot 🢥 World，Hermit 🢥 Moon/Fatherhood

Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950 by Jackson Pollock

21 🢥 Majority (1981/Banque de France Resignation/Lyon🢥Paris/69[XV]🢥75[XII])

27 🢥 Maturity (1982/Shadow Management/Paris🢥Taipei/22🢥49)

21 🢥 Retirement (1999/Saint-Germain-en-Laye🢥Fontainebleau🢥Noisy-le-sec/78[XV]🢥77[XIV]🢥93[XII])

27 🢥 Seniority (2022/Squire)

Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950 by Jackson Pollock

With Autumn Rhythm, made in October of 1950, the artist is at the height of his powers. In this nonrepresentational picture, thinned paint was applied to an unprimed, unstretched canvas that lay flat on the floor rather than propped on an easel. Poured, dripped, dribbled, scumbled, flicked, and splattered, the pigment was applied in the most unorthodox means. The artist also used sticks, trowels, knives, in short, anything but the traditional painter's implement to build up dense, lyrical compositions comprised of intricate skeins of line. There is no central point of focus, no hierarchy of elements in this allover composition in which every bit of the surface is equally significant. The artist worked with the canvas flat on the floor, constantly moving all around it while applying the paint and working from all four sides.

"I'm very representational some of the time and a little all of the time. But when you're working out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge. Painting is a state of being. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is." — Jackson Pollock

《道德經第十章》

載營魄抱一，能無離乎？

專氣致柔，能嬰兒乎？

滌除玄覽，能無疵乎？

愛民治國，能無知乎？

天門開闔，能為雌乎？

明白四達，能無知乎？

生之、畜之，生而不有，為而不恃，長而不宰，是謂玄德。

Dao De jing Chapter Ten — Alan B. Taplow 10 CHARACTER OF DE

    Can you:

    Embrace oneness - Maintaining the unity of mind, body and spirit?

    Control the Qi —

    By concentration, cause it to be soft, as a little child?

    Clear and purify inner mystic vision —

    Spotless and without blur, creating perfection?

    Govern and lead — openly, honestly and simply

    The governed barely sensing your effect?

    Handle "life's-gate" experiences of birth and death —

    Maintaining the receptive principle of Yin?

    Be open to All Things — with a true understanding

    Remaining detached, taking no action, not interfering?

    Give birth and nourish All Things —

    Seeking neither to lay claim nor possess?

    Act and work —

    Seeking neither credit nor reward?

    Lead and assist —

    Seeking neither to master nor dominate?

    To do this is the primal virtue —

    The profound and mysterious De.

Dao De jing Chapter Ten — James Legge (Possibilities through the Dao)

When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating. When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become a (tender) babe. When he has cleansed away the most mysterious sights (of his imagination), he can become without a flaw. In loving the people and ruling the state, cannot he proceed without any (purpose of) action? In the opening and shutting of his gates of heaven, cannot he do so as a female bird? While his intelligence reaches in every direction, cannot he (appear to) be without knowledge? (The Dao) produces (all things) and nourishes them; it produces them and does not claim them as its own; it does all, and yet does not boast of it; it presides over all, and yet does not control them. This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Dao).

Dao De jing Chapter Ten — Arthur Waley 10

Can you keep the unquiet physical-soul from straying,

Hold fast to the Unity, and never quit it?

Can you, when concentrating your breath,

Make it soft like that of a little child?

Can you wipe and cleanse your vision of the Mystery till all is without blur?

Can you love the people and rule the land,

Yet remain unknown?

Can you in opening and shutting the heavenly gates play always the female part?

Can your mind penetrate every corner of the land,

But you yourself never interfere?

Rear them, then, feed them,

Rear them, but do not lay claim to them.

Control them, but never lean upon them;

Be chief among them, but do not manage them.

This is called the Mysterious Power.