klee and merton on making and seeing...

"abstract formal elements are put together like numbers and letters to make concrete beings or abstract things; in the end a formal cosmos is achieved, so much like the creation that a mere breath suffices to transform religion into act."
paul klee

"the perfect act is empty. who can see it? he who forgets form. out of the formed, the unformed, the empty act proceeds with its own form. perfect form is momentary. its perfection vanishes at once. perfection and emptiness work together for they are the same: the coincidence of momentary form and eternal nothingness. forget form, and it suddenly appears, ringed and reverberating with its own light, which is nothing. well, then: stop seeking. let it all happen. let it come and go. what? everyting: i.e. nothing.
thomas merton

2 short poems by paul klee...

my star

my star
rose deep
below
my feet.

where does my fox
go in the winter?
where does my serpent
sleep?

last things last

in the heart's center
the only prayers
are steps
receding.

from voices of german expressionism, 1970

when traffic becomes patterns...

two beautiful 1953 drawings by louis kahn, studying traffic movement patterns in philadelphia. one existing, one proposed. both from the work of louis kahn, la jolla museum of art 1965; and both could certainly be drawings by paul klee.