Comments on: The Ink Panthers Show! Episode 7 http://www.mikedawsoncomics.com/the-ink-panthers-show-episode-7/ Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:50:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: corey http://www.mikedawsoncomics.com/the-ink-panthers-show-episode-7/comment-page-1/#comment-430 corey Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:12:59 +0000 http://www.mikedawsoncomics.com/?p=1259#comment-430 Great episode. The "perfection" discussion reminded me of something one of my teachers said in one of my Asian (I think it was Chinese painting) art history classes, that being that there used to be painters who would intentionally make a substandard brushstroke in their paintings because only Buddha was perfect and it was a sort of "sacrilege" to produce a perfect painting. Tangentially, this also reminded me of a Native American custom (I think it was Navaho) of always leaving something unfinished in your work (or dinner plate) as a kind of warding off of death. This would be because you let the "spirits" know by your act that you intend to return it. You have something unresolved that needs to be completed before you die. (keep in mind that both of these concepts were word of mouth, I never read about these ideas in a book) The Navaho concept was told to me by the wife of a full-blooded Navaho Native American. Anyway, can't wait to hear Tony and John's "chair" story. Cheers guys. Great episode. The “perfection” discussion reminded me of something one of my teachers said in one of my Asian (I think it was Chinese painting) art history classes, that being that there used to be painters who would intentionally make a substandard brushstroke in their paintings because only Buddha was perfect and it was a sort of “sacrilege” to produce a perfect painting. Tangentially, this also reminded me of a Native American custom (I think it was Navaho) of always leaving something unfinished in your work (or dinner plate) as a kind of warding off of death. This would be because you let the “spirits” know by your act that you intend to return it. You have something unresolved that needs to be completed before you die.
(keep in mind that both of these concepts were word of mouth, I never read about these ideas in a book) The Navaho concept was told to me by the wife of a full-blooded Navaho Native American.

Anyway, can’t wait to hear Tony and John’s “chair” story.
Cheers guys.

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