Dear David,
Hey hey! Congratulations on your new job, you must be well chuffed :-)
Here's some images and the text from an exhibition in Buenos Aires that I reckon you would have been interested in: Waking Up, from artist Diana Randazzo. I reckon if you'd been at this exhibition with Dani and me we would have endless swoops and loops of conversation, theorising and wondering afterwards: about our energetic bodies, our interconnectedness as energetic beings, what happens to that energy after death... perhaps even wondering how that connected energy relates to our concepts of who and what is 'god'... and maybe even reaching morphic resonance, who knows?! ;-)
Waking up
The possibility of being conscious there is a cosmic truth is referred to the transcendence of the physical body as a transitory instrument within a broader on of the energetic body.
Life after the disappearance of the physical body, and during it, is wider tahn what people generally believe. This perspective of the concept extension is called "the cosmic truth". It is part of the often called, in Buddhist philosophy, Satori. Illumination, as a status where the physical body, the mind and the emotions stand in perfect harmony is what for this philosophy means a wide horizon that includes the act of waking up concept. / / The being i immortal. His conscience awakening him helps him, in his physical body, to get to Satori. To wake up is as if to light up the physical transit, towards such a learning which will be achieved in a major expectation. It exists to remember that the answers are not inside is, but they have always been inside our beings.
Marcela Römer, exhibition notes for Diana Randazza
The exhibition notes say that Randazzo's aim is to 'directly send us' to the place of awakening, and although I admire the intent I personally did not feel that I reached a place of meditation or calm within the gallery space... but what I did get from the installation was a communication about perspectives. I'll explain: these clear plastic balls of various sizes were hung on multiple strings from a circular mirror on the ceiling above, taking up a roughly spherical space. They were lit with a spotlight of varying intensity. The overall effect was that there were somehow layers and layers of shadows cast by these balls, varying in intensity as the light varied, across the back wall, on the floor below and stretching out in front, on the ceiling and mirror above, even falling on our faces and bodies casting dappled patterns. It seemed a beautiful and poetic illustration for me of how one world that is made up of many beings of a different shapes and sizes can be seen from multiple angles, can be modelled or visualised in multiple ways and have many different effects on the surrounding environment and beings, effects which vary in intensity with changed in environment. This may not have been the exact intention in the mind of the artist as she created the installation but I believe she might be content in knowing that her work could provoke what felt like somehow a profound understanding of a simple point about our shared world, our energetic cosmos.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts David... I actually just found this video of the installation online too, so you can get a sense of the sound that for Randozzo was a key part of the immersion.
Sending you a big hug, and good luck with the start of the new job!
Big love,
:-)
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