Collected Works of Jan Haag, Indra's Net, JOCASTA, Poetry, Textile Art, Needlepoint, Music,

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Collected Works of Jan Haag, Indra's Net, JOCASTA, Poetry, Textile Art, Needlepoint, Music,Essays, Travel, Fiction, Gallery den Haag, 21st Century Art, Jan Haag Bio, Introduction/By Jan HaagEveryone who lives owes it to humanity to report on what it's like to bea human being -- in one's own particular body, telling one's ownparticular truth. The Internet now provides the medium, the opportunity-- and the obligation.Here begins my report. It contains works both published and unpublishedand will, eventually, cover the wide range of my experience andstudies. First the studies: Beginning in 1996 as an Access Student at theUniversity of Washington, I have indulged a passion to study everythingunder the sun, the moon, the galaxies, within and beyond the walls andvoids; the earth, its mantle and its core, as well as its inhabitants,their thoughts and writings both Eastern and Western. (It is interestingthat we in the Western World never speak of world knowlege as Northernor Southern.)Recently, on November 28, 2003, I was reading The Future of Lifeby Edward O. Wilson, First Vintage Books Edition, March 2003, (c) 2002and found in the Prologue, written as a letter to Thoreau, thisextraordinary as well as homely, definition of art:"Although Walden is sometimes oracular in tone, I don't read it,the way some do, as an oration to the multitude. Rather it is a work ofart, the testament of a citizen of Concord, in New England, from oneplace, one time, and one writer's personal circumstance that managesnevertheless to reach across five generations to address accurately thegeneral human condition. Can there be a better definition of art?" --Page xiThis expresses with precision my hope for and purpose in creatingjanhaag.com. It is this kind of "art work" that we all owe each other --and can do, now that the NET binds us, like the reflecting* pearls in Indra's Net, each to each.However, I am not Thoreau and the world is no longer Walden Pond. Theworld is the world and in my brief lifetime, via my copious writings, Ihave tired to include as much as possible of what I have seen and what Iunderstand of the Whole World - which I believe is ONE. And only when it is perceived as one,wherein each part is equally valuable and equally affects the whole, willwe be at peace with one another.My most recent studies include Sanskrit, Literature, Grammar andLinguistics, World History, Music, Literature and Architecture, alsoArchaeology throughout the world, Writing Systems, Textiles, Birds,Murder, Indian Art, Bio and Medical Ethics, Genetics, Sex, Mass Media Law,Non-Western Architecture, History of Ancient India, Nanotechnology,Dravidian origins, the history of South India, forms of Biography,Geology, the Biology of Fishes, the breathtakingly improbable history ofthe Internet, the even more unbelievable history of American democracy,all the forms of English and American Poetry, Pattern, Design, a bit ofGardening, Dinosaurs, Physiology, and daily research into the psychologyof Shiva-purna, the cat.An artist, a poet, needs to know everything. Some of the experiences I draw on are briefly noted in my bio.If you want to watch the slow process of study, creation, and the forevertransformational work on a Website, I usually work in the morning, WestCoast time, U.S.A.. The creative process is of profound interest to me;composing directly in cyberspace is a great adventure. If you finderrors, discontinuities or chaos in a particular work, I ask your pardon.For the most part, it simply means that page is still -- or will be again-- under construction.*In the lower left corner under "earlier work" is the reference to Indra's Net. (Updated 03-01-07)looking for ways to suspend elections in the USARevised August 1, 2004, one day beyond the blue moonRevised February 3, 2006August 1, 2004 --I invite you to come on an adventure with me in stitchingmy latest needlepoint THE TENTHATS -- ie. to share step by step the creative process of developingan improvisational piece of needlepoint, indeed doubly improvisational,because it is based on North Indian Classical music -- which, likeneedlepoint, manifests within one of the strictest "grid systems" in the world, both of which,nonetheles, allow for, literally, infinite variation. Indeed theimprovisation is triple as I layout the web page for which I have scanned,over time, the stages in developing the needlepoint, and now, havingalmost finished the piece, I am posting these along with an explantorytext. The page is still very much under construction, but come and enjoythe process. It is hoped that the needlepoint will be completed just onestep sooner than the web page.Under Poetry, The Opinionated Cat has just been posted, a collection of Shiva-purna Poems. Also, a new form of fiction, Cyber Bytes can be seen under Fiction. The Kalachakra and its text, the main philosophical andtechnical documentation of the Needlepoints, is now complete. Anautobiographical Essay tellsabout the founding of the American Film Institute, Directing Workshop for Women. The 2001 Poems, The 2002 Poems, The 2003 Poems The 2004Poems and The 2005 Poemsform an almost, in some instances,daily-added-to foundation for my manyPoetry Collections and Ascesis. As The 2006 Poems are gestating and beingborn, I will continue to add some of my Early Works in bothpoetry and prose. In 2005, I completed many early drafts of a Novel/Memoir entitled Trivium. It will be posted eventually -- maybe after seven more drafts. Under CAUTION on the Poetry,Table of Contents page, there is documentation about the 116 poemsplagiarized from this website -- and poems plagiarized from at least tenother poets -- by AOL Poetry Board users, as well as some advice aboutwhat to do if you, as a poet or Internet user, are singled out for thisdubious form of appreciation.works areadded frequently and noted under Newly Posted.Recent Collections include: The ExultationPoems (2003) Poems Inspired by Nisargadatta(2002), Birds Migrate At Night (1999), the 338poems of the Poetic Forms Used in English, (The Desolation Poems) (1987-2001).ThisForms Collection, contains most of the canon of about 400 American/EnglishPoetry Forms. Along with its scansions and drafts, it is archived inSpecial Collections at the Blagg-Huey Library of Texas Womans University,Denton, Texas.at the Seattle Asian Art Museum.Some of the works are based on North Indian Classical music, others areinspired by both Eastern and Western iconography. Via TEXTILE ART this Website is linked to21ST CENTURY ART, C.E. -- B.C., A Context.Created under the Open Studios Project of the National Endowment for theArts, the Benton Foundation, the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle PublicLibraries and Microsoft's Technology Resource Institute, it exhibits someof the world's finest work in Needlepointing, Weaving, Baskerty,Architecture, Chinese Lattice, Tapestry, Rugs, etc. -- the "grid arts".Under FICTION is NoPalms, a novel, and the short stories: Sheba, Kat Black amystical, Cattipoint-illustrated tale, and HouseHunting, as well as various collections of Cyber Bytes.Under ART & POETRY -ACCUMULATIONS is a collection of three-dimensional collages, made of and accompanied by poetry.

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