Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

Illusion is the mantle of the Real

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.