Did I mention, for you, some reading of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin? In my 'overview' you are among those in 'vanguard' of emerging human consciousness --- consequent upon what Teilhard describes as 'human family now becoming planetized'.
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Venantius J Pinto < venantius.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dan— > > Awesome, to know you’ve have had a glorious and long relationship with/in > Goa. > These things matter in the way ones being materializes into potentiality. I > vaguely > recollect the marine workshop. Perhaps my father would have known them. The > property on both sides of the petrol pump where Nerul begins, is ours, and > hopefully > my brothers have some ideas about it. But I stay in my corner, although the > eldest. > They are both in India. > > I was born, and raised in Bombay; of Nerul, near Betim; and Batim (mother). > The longest I lived in Goa was for three months. But my sensibility in > things as also > nature is very much Goan. But thats just be saying. It encompasses a lived > aesthetic > that has taken in/to a degree one will say, an amalgamation of the/from the > Goan, > the Indian (but distinct) with my American being, and study of Japanese art > and > calligraphy (7th Dan, and other ranks). > > Its a long story, of a simple person who has seen a few things and walked > into > some shadows! Pleased tp say that the path continues getting shaped. > > See: > Levitating Enclosures, Procellous Washes and Shunted Wagons > *Chintlelem ghodlelem zalear mellelim ghora ietelim aslim.* > If our thoughts were to be realized the dead would return home. *—*Konkani > proverb > http://venantiusjpinto.blogspot.com/2009/12/levitating-enclosures- > procellous-washes.html > > Todo es gracia :: All is grace > http://venantiusjpinto.blogspot.com/2016/12/todo-es- > gracia-all-is-grace.html > > Good things still happen. I get to do some good work, and stay in the > running slowly forging. > I know where I stand in the art firmament that is Indian or for that matter > any other place. > > Right now, working on my fourth project for the Kyoto Journal. Small > mercies. > > Thank you. > > —Venantius > > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Dan Driscoll <driscoll....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I see that you have 'big story too'. Were you born/raised in Goa? I > married > > a girl from one of those 'Old Goan Families), so lived on River Mandovi > for > > upwards of thirty years. One of my good friends there was Chirstovo Pinto > > (in Betim, near Marine Workshop). > > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Venantius J Pinto < > > venantius.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Dan— > > > > > > Wow, wow, and awesome. Appreciate you extrapolating and given me the > > segway > > > to share. > > > > > > I have not heard of Namanand Modak, nor of Anjali Ashram, and > appreciate > > > you mentioned both. > > > > > > Years ago, I paid a visit to the National Film Board of Canada, and > bough > > > some VHS tapes. > > > Although we were there for a short while, the impression on my > > sensibility > > > was tremendous. > > > It would be good if Goans had the chance to see Norman McLaren’s films, > > > especially, Neighbors. > > > I believe Ishu Patel is still at the NFBC!? Things changed drastically > > for > > > me; but I cannot forget them. > > > So many of them. > > > > > > I graduated from Pratt Institute, from the CG Dept. My short film, > > Shunyata > > > was realized > > > in mixed-media animation. But things worked differently, and just > > perhaps I > > > may get back > > > someday to animating. Sill, all experiences bolster us. Needless to > say, > > > but animation has > > > come a long way and will keep going on. The first batch of CG animators > > in > > > Canada and > > > the US, all divorced! The work and exploits took their toll. Btw, > > remember > > > the Benson & Hedges > > > commercial, which was computed at the National Center for > Supercomputing > > > Applications! > > > > > > Canada has played a tremendous role in developing programs, having > > Sheridan > > > and other schools, > > > and by assiduously creating outlets for animators. The animators too, > > have > > > played their cards and more. > > > > > > My base has always been traditional. > > > > > > My journey in painting murals is recent and began with the Mexicans, > and > > is > > > now six murals strong. > > > Next month, I head to Candelaria, Misiones, Argentina to paint my first > > > there, at the site of one of the > > > Jesuit missions (reducciones). Paid for! Btw, there were thirty > > stretching > > > from Paraguay. Bolivia, Brazil, > > > and Argentina. > > > > > > Then, from Oct–mid Nov, will be painting six murals in Colombia. And > then > > > teach a course in Poinxedeje, > > > Hidalgo, Mexico. I hope to sketch, and cook some, and get into the 2018 > > > exhausted and burnt out, or > > > rejuvenated and raring to deal with fresher horrors, via generating new > > > projects, including calligraphy > > > and print making. > > > > > > My artistic labor is accessible online. I must also add that it does > not > > > follow a > > > discernible trajectory. :) Search: Venantius Pinto; or Venantius J > Pinto. > > > > > > As I say in my feeble Spanish: Vivivimos tantas vidas, y tantas vidas > > viven > > > en nosotros. > > > (We live many lives, and many lives live within us). > > > > > > More, some other time. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > >