Riding slow, drunk junk through the northeast

Maurice Estève - Fourchin, 1969, pencil, walnut stain and charcoal on paper, 42 x 30.3 cm

ཧཱུྃ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔པདྨ་གེ་སར་སྡོང་པོ་ལ༔ཡ་མཚན་མཆོག་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྙེས༔པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞེས་སུ་གྲགས༔འཁོར་དུ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མང་པོས་བསྐོར༔ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་བདག་བསྒྲུབ་ཀྱི༔བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཕྱིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ༔གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔ Hūṃ! In the north-west of the land of Oḍḍiyāna In the heart of a lotus flower, Endowed with the most marvellous attainments, You are renowned as the ‘Lotus-born’, Surrounded by many hosts of ḍākinīs Following in your footsteps, I pray to you: Come, inspire me with your blessing! guru padma siddhi hūṃ.

Hobo Hopping a Train. 1935

“When the Iron Birds are flying in the sky and the Iron Horses are running on the roads, we know that dharma-ending age has arrived. At this time, Tibetan Buddhism shall flourish globally. When the iron bird flies and the horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the world, and the Dharma will come to the land of the red men. In this Dharma-ending age, “Rulers do not act like Rulers, Subjects do not act like Subjects, Fathers do no act like Fathers, Sons do not act like Sons”, the relationships between Fathers and Sons are more like Playmates. Women do not honor and uphold chastity; men indulge in lust and unrestrained sexual misconducts.”

— Prophecies of Padmasambhava (also known as Guru Rinpoche), the founder of Tibetan Buddhism with regard to the end of Tibet’s theocracy more than a thousand years ago.

Bruce Lee is the co-conspirator and co- creator of Webb Gallery here in downtown Waxahachie. He loves hobo lore and train car graffiti. He is a researcher and collector by nature and co-authored the book As Above So Below -Art of the Fraternal Lodge with Lynne Adele and published by University of Texas Press.

Webb Gallery

Process Video:

Time Jump

The biggest painting I’ve ever done at around 29m (95ft) tall, and on the outside of an old train depot in Logansport, IN USA. 

Kneedler

This train I ride, dir. Arno Bitschy (2019)

paul bonner

Night Owls Rejoice: A Neon-Lit Time Capsule in Albuquerque, 1986 ฆ‰ŒŒ

Source details and larger version.

If you like fairies or are one, here’s my current collection of vintage fairy imagery.

Hávamál 5 (Gestaþáttr)

ᚢᛁᛏᛋ ᛁᛋ ᚦᛅᚱᚠ ᚦᛅᛁᛘ ᛁᛋ ᚢᛁᚦᛅ ᚱᛅᛏᛅᛦ ᛏᛅᛚᛏ ᛁᛋ ᚼᛅᛁᛘᛅ ᚼᚢᛅᛏ ᛅᛏ ᛅᚢᚴᛅᛒᚱᛅᚴᚦᛁ ᚢᛁᚱᚦᛦ ᛋᛅ ᛁᛋ ᛁᚴᛁ ᚴᛅᚾ ᛅᚢᚴ ᛘᛁᚦ ᛋᚾᚢᛏᚱᚢᛘ ᛋᛁᛏᛦ

Vits er þörf þeim er víða ratar; dælt er heima hvat; at augabragði verðr sá er ekki kann ok með snotrum sitr.

There is need of intelligence/spirit from this one who far travels; it is anyway sweet to be at home; (the wise ones) shall (mockingly) wink at the unlearned one who sits among the wise ones.