Mary Oliver wrote in her poem ‘The Leaf and the Cloud’, “Everyday – I study the difference between water and stone.”
There are so many different images that presents.
The water lies in still water for a few millenia and in time, at the surface event level does the water assume characteristics of stone, or does the stone assume characteristics of water?
At what point is our art that of stone, unyelding and solid?
At what point is our art that of water, flowing and formless?
Is there a difference, or are they different aspects of the same?
Consider the study of kata, is it the unmoving nature of a technique executed that is the weapon, or is it the movement between techniques, the soft and fluid that is the weapon?
Let us think on this more.
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