Judy Parker

It's all good, it'll all be fine

<p>Humans are inherently programmed to be creative far beyond our needs. It&#8217;s our most powerful source of progress as a species. And it holds more delight and satisfaction than anything else we do, no matter the &#8216;artistic&#8217; value &#8211; it&#8217;s all good beyond wanton destruction. If we cannot continually be creative, we will have failed the human experiment.</p>


Amitābha is the central figure of the Pure Land schools of Buddhism. According to these teachings, Amitābha lives in a paradise called the Western Pure Land, in which all believers strive to be reborn. Amitābha’s Pure Land, described in scripture as a place of boundless beauty, provides respite from the cycle of rebirth. Today one of the most widely practiced of the Buddhist faiths in the countries of East Asia, Pure Land Buddhism emerged in India and spread to China in the 100s CE and Japan by the early 800s. This sculpture would have originally served as the principal object of worship at a Japanese Pure Land temple, and would have been flanked by sculptures of his attendant bodhisattvas: Avalokiteshvara (J: Kannon) and Mahāsthāmaprāpta (J: Seishi). 
	
This sculptor used the yosegi-zukuri technique, whereby parts of a sculpture are roughly carved from multiple blocks of wood. Those blocks are pieced together to form a complete sculpture that is then carved in more detail, hollowed out, and often covered in gold foil, as was the case with this Amitābha.

Judy Parker
It's all good, it'll all be fine, Digital photograph

Inspired by:

Amida, the Buddha of Infinite Light, 12th century — Artist: Unknown Japanese — Wood with lacquer and gold

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Judy Parker It's all good, it'll all be fine, Digital photograph

Inspired by:

Amida, the Buddha of Infinite Light, 12th century — Artist: Unknown Japanese — Wood with lacquer and gold

What does inspiration mean to you?

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Judy Parker
It's all good, it'll all be fine, Digital photograph