ruminations
...It's surprising that I have not written in a few days...as school has started I have become a little less regular in posting.
The last few days have been particuarly special, as well as complicated! Earlier in the week I was invited to work with a visiting artist named Allison Knowles. She was a founding member of a movement of art in the 60's called Fluxus, which delt with process oriented art frequently using sound and performance to bring people, artists and observers alike into the moment that they are presently in. We started working on a body of work yesterday, to perform it today! It was an incredible experience both during the concieving of what we were going to do, loosely planning it, to then get up in front of people to include them with our experience.
The frequent amount of times I have found myself in front of people, performing in some way, or even just being, around, the more I understand accepting myself. Not a self that is localized to an ego, or a particular set of causes and conditions, neither divorced from that...just a being. A collection of concentrations. Accepting what I know along with what I do not. Not limiting myself to one plane of existance or dimension. Sharing.
The last week has had exhausting elements in it. The closer I am to not being swayed into extreme emotions, the more is tryed at me. There is so much drama around this isolated community that I have lived in for a number of years now. So many inter-woven identities that are begining to find thier way free.
Well...that may be all for right now. There will be more soon. I have not forgotten about my Christ post that I promised a few posts back...but I am choosing to take my time. I wish all wellness and blessing. Mim
The last few days have been particuarly special, as well as complicated! Earlier in the week I was invited to work with a visiting artist named Allison Knowles. She was a founding member of a movement of art in the 60's called Fluxus, which delt with process oriented art frequently using sound and performance to bring people, artists and observers alike into the moment that they are presently in. We started working on a body of work yesterday, to perform it today! It was an incredible experience both during the concieving of what we were going to do, loosely planning it, to then get up in front of people to include them with our experience.
The frequent amount of times I have found myself in front of people, performing in some way, or even just being, around, the more I understand accepting myself. Not a self that is localized to an ego, or a particular set of causes and conditions, neither divorced from that...just a being. A collection of concentrations. Accepting what I know along with what I do not. Not limiting myself to one plane of existance or dimension. Sharing.
The last week has had exhausting elements in it. The closer I am to not being swayed into extreme emotions, the more is tryed at me. There is so much drama around this isolated community that I have lived in for a number of years now. So many inter-woven identities that are begining to find thier way free.
Well...that may be all for right now. There will be more soon. I have not forgotten about my Christ post that I promised a few posts back...but I am choosing to take my time. I wish all wellness and blessing. Mim
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