Portrait En Creux

Portrait en creux

Animation FlipNote de 5 secondes

Trainées - Experimentation

Cerf veau - Dessin pointilleux

Feutres 0.05 et 0.03 sur papier blanc, format A3

There are many ways to go home; many are mundane, some are divine. My clients tell me these mundane endeavors constitute a return to home for them … although I caution you, the exact placement of the aperture to home changes from time to time, so its location may be different this month than last.  Rereading passages of books and single poems that have touched them. Spending even a few minutes near a river, a stream, a creek. Lying on the ground in dappled light. Being with a loved one without kids around. Sitting on the porch shelling something, knitting something, peeling something. Walking or driving for an hour, any direction, then returning. Boarding any bus, destination unknown. Making drums while listening to music. Greeting sunrise. Driving out to where the city lights do not interfere with the night sky. Praying. A special friend. Sitting on a bridge with legs dangling over. Holding an infant. Sitting by a window in a café and writing. Sitting in a circle of trees. Drying hair in the sun. Putting hands in a rain barrel. Potting plants, being sure to get hands very muddy. Beholding beauty, grace, the touching frailty of human beings.

Women Who Run With The Wolves - Myths And Storie by the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estes (via thestateofardadreaming)

Clôture, ou le dilemme du hérisson

corset en fil de fer

sculpté sur mon propre corps

travail de contraste (peau et métal / artificiel et naturel)

sur mon rapport aux autres et mon rapport a ma féminité

I had a conversation with a friend recently about being recommended meditation as a means to relax and fall asleep, and we were commenting on how we disagreed with this. Granted, there are different forms of meditation, but I honestly want to dispute the idea derived from new age bastardisations of Eastern practices that meditation is just,,, chilling essentially.

Meditation, when employed correctly in the context of most traditional practices, is less about feeling relaxed as it is about becoming aware and mindful, either of yourself and what your mind and body is doing, or of a deity and their presence. (Now let me just preface this by saying that meditation takes many forms and is geared towards many objectives, and the scope is too wide to go into in just one short post, so here we’re speaking merely of bare-bones basics.)

If you meditate correctly, you won’t fall asleep or feel sleepy—you’ll feel more awake, more aware, more alert. The value of meditation, in its most basic form—without applying techniques to raise, steal or build energy and power—lies in the fact that it makes you more aware of your body and consciousness, and increases your focus and mental aptitude. This in and of itself is a valuable practice, but when various techniques are applied in combination to strengthen and supplement magic, it can be a good habit to get into. I think it’s become a rather loaded word of late considering how so many things have just fallen under the umbrella of meditation, but it’s a strong basic keystone of a lot of Eastern* traditions for a reason. (And that reason is not relaxation.)

*By Eastern, here I am primarily referring to Taoism, with a bit of Buddhist influences. (For context I am Chinese and the friend I was discussing this with is Thai)