Close up of Weaving commission started 8 months ago.
Made from recycled paper materials,
saved from the landfill
48″ h x 256″ w
Being Thinking Action
This woven sculpture started a year ago.
That’s 730 meditations ago, in terms of being a
meditator with a 2 x a day practice. I can’t brag
that I have never missed a practice, like David
Lynch. RIP. But I can say I have done at least
700 đ most years.
Like weaving, meditation helps us in the stabilization
of our nervous system.
Our world needs to stabilize.
Let’s start with ourselves.
Everything comes in layers.
Especially weaving.
In Meditation, there is no getting
around or ahead
of it without doing the practice.
The layer of Being, in weaving parlance,
is the foundation. For this weaving…
It’s the frame, the warp and the weft.
The Being layer is who we truly are, in our
least excited state.
The thinking layer is based on Being.
In order to think, we have to be conscious.
In the creative weaving process, thinking is
the selection of each weft strand and weave
structure that will make up the piece.
Without that, there wouldn’t be a piece of art.
Happiness comes from our direct contact with Being.
If our Being is stable, our thinking will be stable.
If we are not truly thinking about the active part
of our lives,
we are simply Reacting to whatâs happening, without
awareness of what we are thinking.
This happens when we are filled with stress. We
are unaware of the stress that we
hold onto.
In the weaving process, this happens when
we don’t take our time to build and make each
layer work as one together. We aren’t organized.
Like our thoughtsâŚ
they become jumbled and we can’t focus.
We become messy and distracted.
As we integrate a stable Being with the thinking layer,
our thinking becomes
clearer and more creative.
And from that, our action becomes more
effective.
These layers, like the weaving, cannot be independent
entities.
The active layer in this weaving is the
grand texture that is added as the last
process.
Like the last Active layer in
this weaving⌠it becomes the true Being
of the work. Like ourselves.
I simply had to take the
time to make the strands long enough,
to create the texture that creates the
essence of what is.
Like meditating⌠We take the time to
integrate our Being our thinking and
our actions.
So the outcome is what we want in our livesâŚ
Our true sense of Being.
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