Music is the only art form I know nothing about, still I see and hear music in all the other arts; rhythm, pattern, movement, balance, silence, emptiness … these are all important qualities also in poetry and visual arts. At the Drawing Room in London the exhibition Everything we do is music is underlining the affinities. You…
Tag: meditation
Awakening to this world
When I, a year ago yesterday, started my simple project AN IMAGE A DAY, I was – amongst other things – inspired by Cynthia Newberry Martin’s wonderful blog 365 TRUE THINGS . But instead of using my daily practice as a way of catching myself, I turned my gaze outwards. What I have discovered this last year, is that…
An empty mind –
Agnes Martin reflects on her work
equanimity
I’m studying mindfulness, that is to say: I’m studying to become more mindful. In theory it’s a piece of cake – – until one suddenly remembers that living is not some kind of theoretical activity, living is praxis; all the time, every day, here & now – – and then the stupid self-assured piece of…
Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire
I’m easily overwhelmed – and the moving process I’m in the middle of is really challenging my peace of mind. Normally I try one of the following two when the world gets noisy: I sit down to write. I meditate. But now I have nowhere to sit!!!! I’m running back and forth between two houses,…
Pema Chödrön says:
– You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather… . .
“no walk, no work”
I’d like to carve out a place for my own writing in-between literature and visual arts. Erasure poetry, which I have posted on lately, is such an in-between art form. Some call it conceptual writing, which might be a good term, but to me it’s also problematic, because today conceptual art is almost drowned in…
sub rosa 