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You think you have mean tornadoes in Texas? They are nothing when compared to the high flat lands of my native Persia. I saw one in a prairie one afternoon in the 1960's while visiting Dad's mother, green-gray clouds rolling about 60 feet overhead. We hit the storm cellar. Hail the size of grapefruit fell; denting our old truck a bit. Broke some windows on the north side of Granny's house. The anger of the storm went straight to my soul! I wanted to express it somehow... Art!
I couldnt escape the anger, so right out of high school I was drawn into semi-pro cage fighting. I was fast. I could throw a punch, and I could take one, too. But the violence of the fight did not satiate my hunger for expression. Like the storm, it just hurt.
Then i found tai chi. The rhythm of the movements brought the anger to the tips of my fingers and I could go straight to the studio and the fingers would mindlessly form the sculptures. I could feel the transference of the anger into art. I was fulfilled.
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I couldnt escape the anger, so right out of high school I was drawn into semi-pro cage fighting. I was fast. I could throw a punch, and I could take one, too. But the violence of the fight did not satiate my hunger for expression. Like the storm, it just hurt.
Then i found tai chi. The rhythm of the movements brought the anger to the tips of my fingers and I could go straight to the studio and the fingers would mindlessly form the sculptures. I could feel the transference of the anger into art. I was fulfilled.
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