Artists

Artist in the Community – Ricky Sued

Then I started to discover playing music. The plays I did were always closely related to music, in fact we did an Rock Opera with friends and great musicians in 1983. But I was always on the other side, directing, staging, or writing. When I turned fifty, my friend Marisa gave me an acoustic guitar and from that moment on I began to study guitar, then sax, then piano and finally the bandoneon [ed. a type of concertino].

Artists in the Dzogchen Community – Oleg Troyanovsky

Artists in the Dzogchen Community – Oleg Troyanovsky

People often have a magical idea of how music is created. Music is remotely reminiscent of language. We pronounce words, express ourselves, we can speak quietly, loudly, softly, sharply. The same applies to music. When some language becomes native to you, it’s easy to compose a poem or begin to write a text, and in the same way you can sit and compose music.

Silvia Nakkach: The Space in Between a Cloud and a Sound

Silvia Nakkach: The Space in Between a Cloud and a Sound

If I tell my story from the present time, I sometimes wonder if I am a musician or a sound artist. I feel more like a sculptor that shapes sound molding time in space. It makes sense, my last name Nakkach means artisan, and if I separate the N-from the akkach, it sounds like akash, meaning ‘clear space’, ‘sky’ in Indian Cosmology.

Letters of the Artist

Letters of the Artist

Giorgio Dallorto and his calligraphy art presented by Christian Correnti. “I may have approached calligraphy as a lazy pupil, which over time has become a precious tool for studying and deepening the Practices. Ultimately it has become a belated but profound homage to the great calligrapher and Master who was “the king of the Dharma jewel of the sky”.

Decorating Tibetan style

Decorating Tibetan style

Migmar Tsering, Merigar’s resident Tibetan craftsman, talks about making the ornaments in Tibetan style for decorating the Museum of Asian Art and Culture in Arcidosso

Evolution Through Art and Being Connected

Evolution Through Art and Being Connected

Ans Swart is a painter and long time practitioner in the Dzogchen Community. We talked with her about her thangka painting and also about how she met Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and the Dzogchen Community

Liberation Through Seeing

Liberation Through Seeing

An international team of experts has been painting a set of beautifully decorated tagdrol mandalas for the newly built cinerary at Merigar West