The sound of a hand
"The sound of one hand"
Conceived as a meeting space for practicing brushstrokes, a way of experimenting with ink and brush in the fields of Japanese painting and calligraphy. We work on the different ways of making the "single stroke", a straight line that crosses the paper and allows the body to be consciously involved in its execution. This proposal is designed not only to enjoy work in medium and large formats, but also to use the different parts of our body as another tool in drawing the line.
Hakuin Ekaku (Japan, 1686 – 1769) was a Zen monk who used painting and calligraphy as tools to deepen this branch of Buddhism. His school is based primarily on the use of koans for his teaching. "The Sound of One Hand" is perhaps the most widely spread of all his koans and we talked about it during a projection of images, while in practice we delved into naka 中 calligraphy, a kanji that goes beyond its literal translation of "center".
