Images:
1. Single strand of Counterbalance
2. 7 Strands of sheath core fiber with Dry Cleaning Hangers
3. Close-up of Counterbalance
COUNTERBALANCE
In 2010, my father came to NYC
to see my doctors, as his health was failing.
While he would rest, I was developing textiles
and began weaving dry cleaning hangers.
Counterbalance was the reflection of what I pertained
from these doctors’ visits.
My father’s nervous system was weakening.
The nervous system of humans is the most complete system in all of creation.
It stimulates the senses and the body
and brings the mind into contact with the world,
through hearing, feeling, seeing, tasting, and smelling.
All of this moving-energy-in-action is a balancing act.
Like the quest of quarks (energy)… consciousness conceives, constructs and governs all matter.
And it prints itself out as matter.
So when we begin to weaken,
our ability to be conscious weakens along with it.
My conscious mind connected with a thought
of wanting to see how small could I warp up the loom
and weave these misshaped pieces,
depicting the frailty of the spinal column
which houses the wires of the nervous system.
It was while observing this decline, I recognized
my own anxiety and frailty in coping.
This is how picking up a practice,
that produces an experience of our waking
state of mind — that will help us be rested, observant,
sophisticated in thought processing and a joyful person
to be around — is essential, as we age (evolve).
I realized, as long as my mind was discontented,
it would continue to be active.
And I would become exhausted, begin missing things
in business and be cranky to be around…
Counterbalance is the wonderful weight of the
Vedic Meditation practice,
balancing the activities of the body and mind.
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