Keinyo White There are some things that are so worthwhile that even doing them imperfectly is of great value. -Gobunsho keinyo@keinyowhite.com
Personal Work
Click here and then on the tab below to see a selection of my personal work. At the present time I only have up the section on watercolors. I’ll have tabs up for Oils as well as Collage evetually. Gotta crawl before you can walk and all that. Watercolors
Choe me the Money
‘Show me the money!’ -Jerry Maguire So in case you’ve been under a rock lately, the financial world has turned its myopic eye and news on Facebook’s IPO. Obviously a lot of people besides Zuckerberg are going to make a lot of money. One of those is the graffitti artist-turned gallery superstar David Choe. If [...]
Degas at The Phillips
‘All critics should be assassinated.’- Man Ray ‘The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.’ -Edward Albee Generally, I hate art reviews. You know why? It’s because the majority of art reviews seem like they’re written by people with little talent of their own putting [...]
Run For Your Life
‘A man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.’-Camus ‘Honestly? I don’t need the commentary. Eyes on your path. Play your position. I’m gonna [...]
When You Meet The Buddha, Kill Him
‘When you meet the Buddha, kill him” -Zen proverb This koan used to confound me when I was a younger man. Which is, of course the very point of any koan: To stop ones thinking, wandering mind. I used to think “Where would you meet the Buddha? Why would you kill him? How? Why kill [...]
Excerpts from the Hagakure
‘Everything in this world is but a marionette show.’ Men who did well at the time of their death were men of real bravery. There are many examples of such: Among Takeda Shingen’s retainers there were men of matchless courage, but when Katsuyori was killed in the fight at Tenmokuzan, they all fled. Tsuchiya Sozo, [...]