David,
Somehow this last post of yours helped clarify for me what you are doing with your painting, and how it relates to TSK. To paraphrase (and probably not quite get it right):
There is the past image and future imagining, and you describe the self as the consolidating tendency that moves back and forth between the two, in effect creating linear time as the mode of experiencing time. And your suggestion is that the self can get out of the way, in which time presents experience differently, and painting becomes a transcending of pointings.
As you suggest, this does not have to be a complete transformation. For the self to grow more inclusive is for time to be available in a more satisfying way.
It is probably helpful for people just to be sensitive to when they are feeling positive and when they are feeling negative, and to see what is going on with time in each case. We don’t need to get too subtle or fancy when it comes to time; we just need to be more sensitive to the temporal dimension.
Jack
That old saying, “I couldn’t have said it better myself” seems to be true in spite of my struggling with the words to do so! :>)
David