RONALD STECKEL about SAX

Kyoto 1984

Since we are exiled from the paradise of blissful One-ness, roaming the streets of the universe (which seems to be just the two-and-manyness aspect of paradise) we are naturally enchanted by all & everything which guides us to the joyous experience of One-ness again.

So here you have eros and agape, space, light, colour, good food, real music and whatever you can imagine as doing some good to the mind of MAN in his exile among mortals, sharing the life of grass, trees, birds, sunsets and other creatures, being born with them, dying with them, drinking the brotherly cup of sorrow, weakness, grievance and pain.

So that’s why we love to sing, dance, melt in the embraces of love, paint pictures in the sand, contemplate symbols: spirit wants to live spirit life, and MAN is spirit incarnated.

SAX, whom I know as a friend for over a decade, has always taken great delight in living the life of spirit: loving women, children, trees and colours, singing praise in the morning and when the evening comes, studying the ancient symbols of form-and-name, playing the flute – and he has always been a lion-child in his sheer happiness: a warm-hearted son of the Sun.

So in his paintings, which show his exuberant feeling and the devotion to the masters he chose as teachers, he tries to give that happiness, that loving feeling, that memory of the blissful state of innocence.

May he live forever!

Ronald Steckel, Berlin
(Pamphlet Institut Franco-Japonais du Kansai, Kyoto, 1984)