Peter van Straten Art by Peter van Straten
The lens
I was chatting recently to a young and enthusiastic lay Buddhist about everything being illusion, savouring the memory of how sure I felt about this myself once, and wishing I could pass on the only thing I feel sure of these days: namely how irrelevant all theories are in a world that only rewards action.
Illusion is itself illusion, but the lenses we peer through are real enough, and so one should at least try to get the prescription right.
May 23, 2011 | Share: 
The Kings speech movie springs to mind here, perhaps the use of the lens that is accentuated to look like an old fashioned microphone. The use of the nude female subject is interesting – I am not getting the ideal quality of vision on laptop here, and believe I am missing out on some parts of the painting making up the whole. There are 2 particular lines that I like here and that is reward after action and the last line is brilliant with the lens prescription being right.