thurscby,2pril22, 1970
daily ncbran
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Artist: Meaning of life is 'seeing'
By Anita Stork
"The meaning of life is to see, really see " according to
Frederick Franck, speaking oa the "Zen of Seeing."
Appearing to the Nebraska Union Ballroom Wednes
day, Franck'i talk was part of the Symposium on the
Wisdom of the West, sponsored by Union Program Coun
cil's Human Potentials Committee.
"Hurnans are starved of seeing," Franck said. Te rush
around looking at familiar objects but we never experi'
ence seeing or life."
Franck, whose drawings and paintings are dbphyed in
permanent collections of mvseuzit throughout the United
States and abroad, said painting was his way of "seing,"
He said he realized this talent several years ago while
conducting a drawing workshop in Australia.
TO it locks back
I threw away the formal text of what I was going to
tell the class," Franck said. "Instead I had them walk
through the college grounds and draw a bush or dande
lion. I told them to look at the object till it looked back
at them.
"When this happens, he said, "you are seeing."
Author of 18 books, the Dutch-born artist moved into
a refurbished gin mill near Varwick, New York about 16
years ago. Across the river from the gin mill he built a
chapel named Tacem in Terns, and with the help of a
$2,500 grant from America the Beautiful Fund, it became
a year-round arts center in 1973.
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Franck said there is an artist within everyone that
is not killed by schooling but "merely shrivels up. He
said someone can spend years looking at the world, but
not seeing.
"Then suddenly you become immersed with what you
see, Franck said. "You become one with the world and
the artist within is resuscitated.
The tint step to "seeing, Franck said, is to take a
walk in the country.
"You should walk alone or with someone you love if
you make a pact not to talk, Franck explained. "Ban all
thoughts and be all eyes. Otherwise, images will come up
in the television screen in your mtod. Those thoughts keep
you from the here and now and from seeing.
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The International Club
luncheon is today at 1 1:45
am. in the Lutheran
Chapel, 1510 Q St. Cost is
75 cents for students.
The Gay Action Group is
sponsoring a Gay Coffee
house Dance Sunday at
UMHE Commonplace, 333
N. 14th St., from 9 pjn.
.to midnight.
The Undergraduate
Psychology Organization's
last meeting of the semester
is tonight at 7 in the Union.
Election of new officers is
scheduled. "
Because of conflicts,
Lambda Tan, the Pre
Medical Technology honor
ary society, is cancelling its
annual tour of three Omaha
hospitals.
A make-up initiation for
invited members of the
Alpha Lamda Delta fresh
man honorary society is
today at 5 pan. in Union
216.
The Union Program
Council will interview
applicants for the Black
Activities chairperson post.
Application forms and an
interview sign-up sheet are
in Union 115.
J 3. Kin singer, head of
the chemistry division of
the National Science
Foundation in Washington,
D.C., will speak today at 3
pjn. on the relationship
between basic research and
the economic health of the
nation. The session, in
Hamilton 104, is open to
the public.
The ASUN Environ
mental Task Force meeting
is tonight at 7 in Union 337.
UNL Marketing Gub is
sponsoring a talk by Bob
Godfrey, .chairman of the
Marketing Dept. at the
Union Pacific Railroad,
today at 3 pjn. in the
College of Business Admin
istration auditorium. A
"Think Drink" at Duffy's
Tavern follows the presentation.
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