Thinking about "my gathering"

There is an acute sense of awareness when I go to gather up my ideas.. I like walking: I get to get over stressing thoughts and a calmness gets to install in. However, walking on the beach is more intense. Overwhelming emotions comes in. I am aware of the wonder and grace which is so powerful, so intense as compared to my pains and problems. Everything eventually comes to a still. Being in the "right now" is the only thing that matters. 

This "moment" is the one before me.  It is the one I can experience and transform. This moment I can choose to be right where I am in the fullest possible sense. And I can breathe to open my senses so that I can feel myself as a small part of the moment in preparation for the depth of possibility it holds.  I can expand my listening to hear the sounds of the waves sharing the moment with me. There is something going on: nature is whispering something important to me. I can expand my moment to the landscape of which I am a detail and find inspiration in the land, air, water, little creatures, shells,leftover of the sea,decayed weeds, twigs and plants around me. I am  part of this process too. I feel this must be some form spiritual practice that I am trying to describe; a collaborative process where I get to be connected with other species in a special way while a slowing down process installs in. The space, the time and the mind become ONE.

I listen to nature for its deeper message; I think It tells me to REMEMBER, for soon enough, as I will be orienting my steps towards another reality, I would only have my memories with me and a nostalgia of what I felt in the past.

The art that I would be creating would be from another reality; the place would be different as would be my perception then. However, I choose to create at that place only as the power of the inspiration felt have been deeply absorbed. The studio is also a place where I belong; it is full with possibility and will enliven ideas from the subconscious. There would be a regeneration process; linked with the domestic aspects of my routine life. There would be a creative attempt to renew these felt emotions, to adapt myself and to re-build on  the familiar in new forms.

What I feel from my making is like meeting a challenge: to expand from what is shifting and changing and to re-orient from fragments. The possibilities here becomes unlimited as one think to grasp on the dynamic rhythms and fragmented patterns of the shells, sharing the treasure within ..

 

Ideas From :

From Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology

The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature By Scott Atran and Douglas L. Medin and

Folkbiology  Edited by Douglas L. Medin and Scott Atran