“Rather than reaching out, and pulling in, we should be reaching in, and pushing forward.”
Untitled Painting | Carl Barnett Design/Studio
“After digging deep into ourselves and cracking open the stone that holds identity, the obvious step is to move outward.”
It is not enough that we have paused, it is imperative that we move forward in a different manner, see in a different light, and create with a clearer intention. After digging deep into ourselves and cracking open the stone that holds identity, the obvious step is to move outward. Rather than reaching out, and pulling in, we should be reaching in, and pushing forward. Seeing who we are and offering that as solace and solution. We each have the capacity for change, each has a role in that bigger picture, to cause the affect or merely to feel the effect. Our choice, our doing, each. To pause and reflect has a circular action, from me to you, to we and back: a ripple, sonic sound, voice on the wings of wind.
“There is a connection that has been severed, pulled apart by the machine we’ve created, only to find, the machine is breaking down.”
To pause in silence is the deepest sound that resonates in the body and mind. Here, we see ourselves in the context of time, place and the bigger picture of alignment, both living and non living: this planet, the stars and the black holes beyond. There is a connection that has been severed, pulled apart by the machine we’ve created, only to find, the machine is breaking down. To pause in place and rethink the direction forward is to fill the cracks with gold, building new from that we’ve learned. This is an alchemy of mind and doing, action and creation. It is not a matter of big steps or small, it is of intention, to create a ripple that creates a wave, a momentum amongst fear and stall. To say change and then make change. To move the mirror, ever so slightly, outward.
“Shut Up, The Painting” | Jamian Juliano-Villani
“To pause is to find our place, re-coordinate and step out into the great expanse of being human, of being fallible, willful and full of hope.”
Where we are in place and time, always demands our attention and questioning, whether we listen and see or not, nudges our pliable destiny, building what we desire, or what we fear. This is in our choices, how we pause and pivot or perpetuate the turning wheel. What is in our control is how we react, how we see ourselves in the totality of others, nature and our place within the future. To pause is to find our place, re-coordinate and step out into the great expanse of being human, of being fallible, willful and full of hope.
Artist | Beatie Wolfe
Tadao Ando | Meditaron Space | Photography | Simone Bossi