Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche: "Dharma art is the principal way we are trying to create enlightened society, which is a society where there is no aggression, and where people could discover their innate basic goodness and enlightened existence, whether it is in a domestic or political or social situation. I suppose at the beginning, when someone enters the environment of the exhibit, there might be some sense of confusion and awe and bewilderment. But at the same time, people begin to find that they are in a world which is very soft and elegant and workable. They begin to enjoy the beauty of the things that we have displayed here." I started as a writer--film critic, journalist, novelist...But when visiting Europe with my then girlfriend, we took in the museums--Vienna (a Klimt exhibit, especially), the Rijks and Van Gogh Museums in Amsterdam...cathedral art, too...My art education has been enhanced, as well, by the MOMA in Manhattan and Cal's University Art Museum--saw a great doc of Jackson Pollock, "action painting," there...top curators. Mentors include: Peter Freund (video) and Joe Doyle (Giclee) at BCC, Berkeley; John Gardner ("The Art of Fiction," i.e., do you want to write puffery like a popinjay for inflight magazines or do you want to be a real writer...) I like to abstract color and form in search of conflict, tension, dynamics.... Famous Tibetan Buddhist saying: "If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear." So, when the "misery pimps" of the world--whose agenda is to make others as "miserable" as they be, disturb, offend, irritate, abuse, get "vajra" upset, and, as in after a summer thunderstorm, the air breaking clear is pure and sweet...