Daily Practice
Why practice?
A practice, as eye use the word, provides “…a method for clarifying the mind so that mental states characterized by expansiveness, love, equanimity, generosity, authenticity, and true spontaneity come to replace states characterized by greed, ill-will, confusion, and narrow points of view.”
This slideshow video, with accompanying sound, played on my tongue drum, in real time to the previously silent slideshow, came to “be” due to my current daily photography practice—in harmony with the Kinship Photography Collective Practice Group, titled: An Elemental Year: Photography, Ritual & Magic.
My various practices include the use of: cameras to document feelings and impressions; wind, string, and percussion instruments to make sounds that words seem incapable of expressing; pens, pencils, brushes, to apply pigments suspended in various mediums, to record gestures onto various surfaces; knives, chisels, and abrasives, to remove wood, or soft stone, allowing a “new form” to emerge. And of course meditation—though as an octogenarian—who’s “practiced” most of his life—aliveness itself seems to have become a continuous meditation.
Eye wish for each image, sound, gesture, mark, phrase, to serve as an invitation to engage in a dialogue—a mutually beneficial creative-encounter—perhaps even a collaboration.