Images:
One strand of Counterbalance at a time
Peter and Amir at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
helping me install.
The office of CEO Dr. Pablo Celnik.
Parallel Universe is Simply a Correlation
The more actions I take in BEING in the flow, and allowing
the fine level of feeling to take me on my journey, the more I hear
my teacher, Guru Ji Thom Knoles, ringing in my ears.
This week, I arrived in Chicago to install a piece
woven around 2013.
At the time, we were doing discovery on weaving recycled
dry cleaning hangers.
I had completed the piece for the Gates Foundation, which was
representative of the strength of my mother.
And I wanted to weave
a piece presentational of my father.
The warp was very narrow, representing
the spinal column, and the wires being the energy flowing
through the nervous system.
Everyone’s physiology is different.
Their physique, their consciousness,
their abilities. Their embedded stress levels.
A dear designer friend and meditator,
who had worked on this building,
suggested to them that they look at my work for their space.
My next trip to Chicago, we met; and I saw all the incredible
work being done.
I immediately felt the correlation of Counterbalance
for one of their offices.
This week, I arrived in Chicago to install.
Memories of visits here
with my parents were abundant.
On the morning of the install, I was mourning a bit, the fact that
this piece would no longer be in my possession,
when I stumbled past the Board of Trade Building… (I always
stop myself when I stumble)
SNAP…
My dad’s first job in Chicago was at the Board of Trade.
It’s the City where he met my mother.
A hospital that helps people with rehabilitation from all levels.
My dad’s relationship with his own physiology.
My relationship with my dad.
I recognized at that very moment that this piece was
meant to be in this City, in the office of a person
that loved it, for a friend who saw my work in this space.
And I realize everything is connected with everything.
We simply have to get out of the way and let it BE.
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