Tom Nakashima
- Tom Nakashima
- A year or so ago I ran across a podcast of a course by Hubert Dreyfus on Existentialism in Literature and Art . I had always been interested in existential philosophy, but I just could not understand what it was all about. In short - my logical thinking was in the way. Through Kierkegaard I learned about the leap of faith, and the knight of faith and I was hooked. From there I went to Dostoyevsky and the novel I could never get through — The Brothers Karamazov . It took me almost a year! My 30 foot painting Brothers Karamazov chronicles my reading. Logic is no longer on my list of necessities for good painting. I now have faith — but not in a God.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Morgantown, W.V. 1975
Lindsay Nakashima: I remember going up (to the attic studio) and smelling the turpentine and picking the oil blobs off dad's paintings. No ghosts, just party attendees who stayed over night and I found them in the morning.
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