December 8, 2025
talks about Taoist and Zen inspired painters.
They view humans as an integral part of nature:
“Something in it just as anything else is in it–flowers and birds–
and not sent into this world, commissioned by some sort of supernatural being
to come into this world and farm it and dominate it.”
So their traditional landscape art will often show the human
blending into (rather than dominating) the landscape.
See: “Poet drinking by moonlight” as one example.
It made me think of this photo.