What do you think he would think of having his work posted on the internet in this way?
If I was to base my opinion of that on what he had done, I'd say he might enjoy it, because he had posters made of his work. The Love Mandala poster - he had one up in his studio, he gave me one. So that's a reproduction. There are still silk screen t-shirts around that he did.

Dragon Mandala Jack Wise

What do you think he was more passionate about: his brush work or his mandala work?
Jack's passion had many facets. On the one hand, he appeared to be almost sage-like, or very Zen-like. On the other hand, he was very intellectual, very analytical. He had a pretty sharp mind, and I think that's his western side, the critical intellect. His criteria for art became inward, like inner vision, and deeply rooted in Eastern mysticism. So Jack, I think, was attracted to mandala because it was concrete, it had an intellectual construct, epistemological structure: it was strict.

Black and white was the purest form. There's nowhere to hide. It's like an electrocardiogram of your consciousness. I think Jack found in calligraphy a way to be a Dragon, to be this powerful, mythical force, and at the same time to be vulnerable and to be high minded, to be pure in intention and in action. He greatly admired Lin Chien-Shih. Jack said, in essence; that Lin Chien-Shih was his mentor, and he and Chien-Shih shared a dream, that he and Jack would meet in another life in caves in China to do calligraphy. Chien-Shih made Jack a stamp once, and Jack was very proud of this stamp - a chop. Jack only put it on special works, and the chop said the equivalent, in English, "No use to use". This is a useless work. This is a useless object, there is no value in it, other that its aesthetic value or its spiritual value. So if Jack thought you really did something special, calligraphic or otherwise, he'd put this chop on it that said "No use to use".

What is your favourite piece that he did, or one that moves you the most?
There is a painting, that I can't say that I know the name of it - it's a mandala. I observed him over a period of weeks, painting it. So I went through, I talked to him about it, I saw it in progress and he shared with me some of the things he was doing about it, so the reason why it would appeal to me, maybe, the most is that I saw Jack struggling, and going through what we all go through when we make art. We used to share materials, and we traded artwork. I have some original Jack Wise paintings that he gave me, because I liked them. Lin Chien-Shih told Jack and myself, "You should give your best work away."