2013 • 33″ x 42.5″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets
This is a second attempt at portraying the Buddha bottling up the extremes of good and evil, maintaining The Middle Way:
The Middle Way…implies a balanced approach to life and the regulation of one’s impulses and behavior, close to Aristotle’s idea of the “golden mean” whereby “every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
I added alliteration and food reference to make it even more fun. Incorporating the pepper imagery with the Buddha allow me to make this piece look like a product label or old sign graphic. Medium strength peppers reference the spicing up life with just a little kick but not enough to make your scalp sweat.
Next up perhaps is a piece about Aristotle and The Golden Mean:
In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. For example courage, a virtue, if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness and if deficient as cowardice.
Socrates teaches that a man “must know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible”.
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lovely y gently funny … would non-GMO apply to this image?
I’d love to Share some non-GMO images on our local San Antonio March Against Monsanto
https://www.facebook.com/events/217805418417262/
also see (which I just saw today for first time)
https://www.facebook.com/ArtistsAgainstMonsanto
This really has nothing to do with GMOs. You can use however you want though 🙂 Just send the people back this way please.