What interests me more are the artists of one tradition that tried to learn from the other. Takemitsu, for instance, arrived at a point where his music sounds as much western as non-western. The painter Zao Wouki is another. It’s not so successful going the other way. Lafcadio Hearn, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts—these have value, but in no way measure up to their models. Maybe the composer Messiaen has done best in that regard. And also, strangely enough, the scifi writer Cordwainer Smith.
"Suction Marks
I watch an octopus
immerse itself in absence,
not hiding,
more a careful reduction
until only suction marks remain,
small sticky moons
left on stone
evidence
that presence briefly lived there."
—@thedevilstuna.bsky.social
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