Friday, September 12, 2014

as simple as breathing

 

 

Andreia Gil1

 

 Andreia Gil2

 

Andreia Gil3

 

 

lately i’ve been considering the possibility that our energies are synced. do you think it is a coincidence that my mom and i both couldn’t sleep last night? do you think it is a coincidence when you think of someone random and then you see them later that day? maybe you can’t get someone out of your head because they’ve been thinking about you too. maybe someone shows up in your dream because you showed up in theirs. i mean to suggest that we’re synced in a way that we cannot perceive, reacting constantly to each other in a way that is not just through our words or through body language. “subconsciously” is perhaps the closest word i can use to get to the thing itself, but it involves an interpersonal network, somewhat of a “collective subconscious” which links us all.

 

 

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yes, okay, i’ve been thinking about vibes (again), but don’t let this word scare you away. my friend jake suggested the alternate term “biorhythms”, if you like that better. on a practical level, i’ve been thinking that phone behavior magnifies the evidence. for example when you pick up your phone to text someone and they’re already calling you. or when you receive an unexpected text and you don’t have to look at your screen to know, to have this gut feeling of who it is. i’m pretty sure i’m not the only person this happens to. maybe if you start looking out for it you will start to notice it. maybe you think of a person because they spoke your name somewhere else, to someone else. maybe we cross paths more often then we think, in a metaphysical world.

 

 

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christian zander2 

 

 

christian zander5

 

 

christian zander1 

 

 

 black place iii-o'keefe

 

 

Georgia O’Keefe (1887-1986) searched for the feeling of infinity through her clear, universalizing forms. Like traditional Japanese flower painters, whose art Van Gogh himself described “as simple as breathing,” O’Keefe explored the idea that art could be meditative, allowing the mind to contemplate the spiritual and philosophical truths which belie all natural ones.

 

 

 the opposite of indifference-o'keefe

 

 

“The universe lies outspread in floods of white light…There is no name for this life unless it be the very vitality of vita. Silent is the preacher about this, and silent must ever be, for he who knows it will not preach”

~Henry David Thoreau

 

 

abstraction white rose-o'keefe

 

 

 

 

I’m having difficulty embedding this video, but it’s a part of this post, this music, this vita.

 

 

 

today’s featured artists: andreia gil, christian zander,ana pater

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