Image: Flash Points, 2022 for the NYC DIFFA by DESIGN Benefit.
Vertical weaving, using tie-on method.
Discarded fabric scraps and discarded mylar.
Flash Points – Deck Talk and Meditation
This weaving throws me back to when I entered the textile industry in the early 80’s.
(Along with my first forays into a spiritual practice.)
Working on custom fabrics for Boris Krolls’ corporate clients.
Remembering the loss, actually, the disappearance of architects and designers that I was working with on these many projects.
By the end of the 80’s/early nineties, it became apparent to me that I needed to try something to calm down my senses.
I began my journey into Vipassana.
Then the study of “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying”
to better understand how I could help.
Looking back, I tried so hard to make that meditation practice work for me, but at the time could not find the community of meditators that so many of my friends were finding at the time.
It took me a while to find a practice that was suitable to my working, creative and family life style.
Something easy and effortless, that allowed my mind to stop thinking.
To quiet it down.
Tamper those flash points to a smolder,
then to extinguish them altogether.
This I found in Vedic Meditation.
One can’t captivate creativity, if caught in the micro
vision that is caused by stress.
Too much stress causes more stress!
We all know we don’t want to feel the way we are feeling.
Flash points of old history get embedded in our systems,
and it takes some time to allow it to work its way
up and out, by sitting quietly twice a day.
So many students these days say,
“I was doing great with my practice
and then I got really stressed and didn’t practice”!!!
Those are the moments when we need to make a pact with ourselves to be disciplined.
So we don’t get triggered.
Those flash points were brought out in this weaving,
that still can get triggered inside of us by today’s
political hot spots, that are near and dear to us.
Using the highlighter pink-colored fabric, it reminds me of the flashpoints that were once there and that are now part of my fabric of history.
05.18.2025 Deck Talk available upon request info@fifthfloormeditation.com