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July 12, 2009
Looking deeply at the photo chosen to symbolise this group prompted me to start an open discussion - that is, if anybody else feels up to it, which is the point of this group, right?
The photo captures a beautiful juxtaposition of physical nature with extramundane reality that is too commonly overlooked in our day-to-day meanderings, but which can bring us back to source with focus and contemplation...
I see the water and the stone in a kind of tantric embrace. The stone holds the ice, yet the ice holds the stone....the ice grounds the stone and in doing so the stone grounds the ice. However we mix up the order and the terminology, what it comes back to is a portrait of organised transient chaos in one concise visual reference to the expansive concept of omni-meta-creation.
Are the ice crystals growing out from the stone, due to a simple difference in temperature? Or is the stone in some other way attracting the ice? Are the quanta in the stone communicating with the quanta in the water? Is intention playing a role here, or is nature merely taking its predicted course?
And finally, can we see the contents of this photo as somehow representative of synchronicity's drawing force?
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hard light
— Jul 13, 2009
It is fascinating to me that photography (in fact all work that encourages and foments observation), can lead us towards a deeper and more rewarding perceptional and existential insight. Things that would go typically unnoticed by the average passer, become alive with a vital beauty that seems to exist in a fragile trans-active evanescence between the thing observed and the observer. Photographs allow us to capture a part of that experience and share it with others.
Art = Heart
— Jul 15, 2009
You are so right about the fleeting nature of the moment between the observer and the observed. Every moment is a snapshot, but if we go about our daily lives in routine all the snapshots run together into one very long, very boring, very predictable reality show. The art appears if we look at life frame by frame, taking time to differentiate the smell between roses in a rose garden rather than just driving past a blur of colour on our way to our next appointment. Would it were that Time ceased to dictate any part of our lives. I intuitively began moving this direction when I stopped wearing a watch in my 20s, and sleeping with my bedside clock's face covered with a postcard. Still, I've a long way to go to perpetuate the delicate balance between participation and observation in beautiful moments. The mention of reality TV reminds me that my poem "Bowl Full of Stars" is an example of how we can honour art in all things, truly engaging in a dance with the stars in the sky, rather than wasting away in front of the television "Dancing with the Stars."
Stace Tussel
You reminded me of a song I've been listening to:
— Jul 15, 2009
'There's so many things that we miss in our everyday lives
We`re so busy hustling, bustling, chasing far away dreams
We forget the little things
Like blue skies, green eyes and our babies growing
Like rainbows, fresh snow and the smell of summer
We forget to live.
Give us eyes like children so we live each day as others
We`re so sure we know so much, that we forget to listen
Then we ponder fickle things
Like cheap thrills, fast pills and constant consumption
Like TV, CDs and cars that speak our names
We forget to live.'
Lamb - Little Things
the little things
— Jul 15, 2009
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