Advocate of the Unwatched Life

"The practice of painting...I'm very involved in it, and so its natural outcome is this spiritual concern. If you consider it long enough and deeply enough a conversion experience will occur. On the other side of that conversion experience, or transformation, is this understanding of our fragility of being -- that we're just specks. And, really, we're just witnesses. [...] In the simplest way, using paint or using clay...it's dirt, but it converts to something else. It's converted into a life force of its own or a recognition, and when it's really successful there's a leap of faith that the maker and other people make when they view it -- that the thing exists on its own." What follows is an insightful conversation with Squeak Carnwath of the UC Berkeley Art Faculty, on art and the cultivation of the unwatched life within.

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