Not Leaving a Room

Site-specific intervention. Acrylic painting, 3x5 m. 2003.

If we were on retreat on a mountain, we could try to observe the space between us and the other mountains. If  only we could learn to perceive as one this space and the space that our own bodiestake up! In such a unified space, how might things exist?


When we are confined to a room for a long time, the space we can enter disappears and our discursive[1] and emotional[2] thoughts are reflected within the walls.

 

What are walls to the mind?       


[1]Discursive thoughts: A common, internal, verbalized, endless dialogue conducted by an ordinary mind (untrained in meditation).

[2]Emotional thoughts: Thought responses to an emotion or sensation as ‘automatic thinking’, sequences of words and images that we associate with them.