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> Camaldoli, Tuscany Mapped Introduction to Tuscany Mapped Slideshow. This is a carrot to get you to go exploring using Google Earth in this Tuscany gallery. You can go to 'Map This', and then zoom in and out and flick to other sites (apart from this one) to learn more about Tuscany as it would appear in the Michelin guide where I copied my paintings from their excellent photographs. I hope they don't mind at Michelin - I buy their tyres for Vernon the Vauxhall. Now his battery is flat. As James Blunt reminds me 'Is there no justice in the world'. Ms P, of Italian extraction, likes this. She was a nanny in Firenze - we Googled the house she worked at in the Florence Hills. You lucky people there in paradise. inanga
> Te Tumu Korero detail from 'Te Tumu Korero' Ngakaitiaki: MoTriple M and Susannah (the Samoan Dolphin Princess) inanga
> Phi-Spiral in Garden Photo of whanau (family) garden in Pa Roa, last resting place of the Windeater, Rakaihautu more later
> Swirling Cloud detail from 'were you? [Where you?] see the full original with poem 'True Love' in Faces of Earth gallery
> Swirl Sunset detail from 'Tiahuanaco on Lake Titikaka' The black at the base of this reminded me of a poem by Ms P's daughter B who turns 12 on Boxing Day: 'What is black? Black is dark, Like the midnight sky. Black is the darkness you see When you are angry. Black is the colour Of the dark stern sea. Black is the colour, When your mind goes blank. Black is the witches cat, Prowling in the night. Black is the colour Where your monsters hide. Black is the colour, Of your shadow, Not leaving your side. Black is the colour, Of a lion's eyes Black is the opposite Of the white Of the wise Can you imagine life And in it A lack Of the colour black'. B acrylic on canvas 2007 Kaitiaki: Ken, Newlands, Aotearoa
> Tuscan Landscape I wrote this piece, about a simple piece, some time ago. I think my lines then bear repeating: 'This pic was executed with remarkable speed in the early hours of the night in almost complete darkness. Well, one candlepower if they still use that measure. Now here is the rub: the colours were selected at random and yet they match the places where one would traditionally see them – blue sky, white cloud, orange-sienna soil and green furrowed foreground. Explain that one! The trees, also green as they should be, were added to the canvas at the last moment. Painting stopped at the moment the candle burnt down. Ms P awoke in the morning and commented that she had watched me on the floor painting in virtual darkness. She designated the painting to be given to her sister Cat. She tired of it and soon passed it on. It is not one of my best pieces but unusual given the circumstances in which it was painted.' You know that this statement is about twenty rungs of the ladder of understanding from what I meant to say. I have chosen to tell the truth about how paintings appear out of darkness as fairly good examples of what they would be in most objective realities. What we have here is a situation! In this situation we must look towards the Master of the Work. In 'Synthesis of Yoga' Sri Aurobindo gives a much clearer explanation: ‘The individual ego must cease to strive, the mind fall silent, the desire-will learn not to initiate. Our personality must join its source and all thought and initiation come from above.’ At 4 am in the darkness of a Jville council flat, while Ms P was mainly sleeping, I had realized that an action – a painting – was to happen. I was at the point of looking at my feet as I had been taught by the Sufi in the tariqyya. The five essential elements were coming together – the action, the tools necessary to perform the action, the essential force – the oomph needed to get things going, the presence of God and then the total surrender of the artist’s hand to the will of God. In the darkness of this moment the hand is invisibly directed to the right tubes of paint and the picture takes shape with the hand surrendered. The light from the single candle illuminates my heart charka and the light within, the essence of God, does all the work. Ego gone, God will provide the correct paints in darkness. Even the afterthought of green for the trees is a gift of God. Kaitiaki: Unknown Acrylic, oil, gouache on canvas, 2007 450mm x 360mm inanga
> Tuscany Painting Tour photo
> Adam on the skimboard
> Tuscany Painting Tour photo
Camaldoli, Tuscany Mapped

Introduction to Tuscany Mapped Slideshow.

This is a carrot to get you to go exploring using Google Earth in this Tuscany gallery. You can go to 'Map This', and then zoom in and out and flick to other sites (apart from this one) to learn more about Tuscany as it would appear in the Michelin guide where I copied my paintings from their excellent photographs. I hope they don't mind at Michelin - I buy their tyres for Vernon the Vauxhall. Now his battery is flat. As James Blunt reminds me 'Is there no justice in the world'.

Ms P, of Italian extraction, likes this. She was a nanny in Firenze - we Googled the house she worked at in the Florence Hills. You lucky people there in paradise.

inanga
> Camaldoli, Tuscany Mapped Introduction to Tuscany Mapped Slideshow. This is a carrot to get you to go exploring using Google Earth in this Tuscany gallery. You can go to 'Map This', and then zoom in and out and flick to other sites (apart from this one) to learn more about Tuscany as it would appear in the Michelin guide where I copied my paintings from their excellent photographs. I hope they don't mind at Michelin - I buy their tyres for Vernon the Vauxhall. Now his battery is flat. As James Blunt reminds me 'Is there no justice in the world'. Ms P, of Italian extraction, likes this. She was a nanny in Firenze - we Googled the house she worked at in the Florence Hills. You lucky people there in paradise. inanga
Camaldoli, Tuscany Mapped

Introduction to Tuscany Mapped Slideshow.

This is a carrot to get you to go exploring using Google Earth in this Tuscany gallery. You can go to 'Map This', and then zoom in and out and flick to other sites (apart from this one) to learn more about Tuscany as it would appear in the Michelin guide where I copied my paintings from their excellent photographs. I hope they don't mind at Michelin - I buy their tyres for Vernon the Vauxhall. Now his battery is flat. As James Blunt reminds me 'Is there no justice in the world'.

Ms P, of Italian extraction, likes this. She was a nanny in Firenze - we Googled the house she worked at in the Florence Hills. You lucky people there in paradise.

inanga
Photo by: inanga • see photo in gallery
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