the pearl.

21. the pearl.

ernst bloch. traces. (2006). 173

the traces of the so-called Ultimate, indeed even of a hospitable Becoming, are themselves just the imprints of a Going that must still be gone into the New.

ordinariness.

13. It is nothing fabulous or magical, but a question of how much one is involved with the ordinariness of life. You would be surprised how much magic there is if one is being completely ordinary, if one is thoroughly and fully experiencing the highest quality of ordinariness or simplicity of life.

chogyam trungpa. collected works, vol 2. 399.

drumming.

music ; music

requirements.

12. requirements. confrontations.

they think they are present, but there are not. This is because they have not attained presence, have not satisfied its requirements. francois jullien. philosophy of living. (2016): 15

living, therefore, expresses at once what is most immediate and that which is never satisfied: we are living, here and now, but we do not know how to gain access to it.  (3)

if I count on the differed, it means that I am not limited to my aim, that I give 'time some time', that I know how to wait for a materialization which no longer belongs to me. I divest myself of impatience in order to gather. (33)

waltz in seven.
music ; music

dralas.

11. dralas & traces.



the dralas are the elements of reality--water of water, fire of fire, earth of earth--anything that connects you with the elemental quality of reality, anything that reminds you of the depth of perception.

when you make that connection with the elemental quality of the world, you are meeting dralas on the spot; at that point you are meeting them. that is the basic existence of which all human beings are capable.

we always have possibilities of discovering magic.

chogyam trungpa. shambala: the sacred path of the warrior. (Shambhala 2009): 111-112.


a particular example is flower arranging. whatever branches you find, none of them is rejected as ugly. they can always be included. you have to learn to see their place in the situation; that is the key point. so you never reject anything. that is how to make a connection to the dralas of reality. (112)


by relaxing the mind, you can reconnect with that primordial, original ground, which is completely pure and simple. out of that, through the medium of your perceptions, you can discover magic, or drala. you can actually connect your own intrinsic wisdom with a sense of greater wisdom or vision beyond you.

immersive playlists.

10. associations in space.

headphone space bleeding into perspectival space.

playlist ; playlist



thoughts in motion
motion in three dimensions

damascus.

8. damascus room


metropolitan museum. gallery 461.

music ; music

new games.

7. traces in spaces are recontextualizations – always allowing for a new game, a new space, a new city, a new connection.

a discipline available to any dweller with a moment, a walker with a view. 

"this is a sort of knowledge that remains silent. only hints of what is known but unrevealed are passed on 'just between you and me.'" michel de certeau. the practice of everyday life, volume 1. (university of california, 2011): 108.

slow coming.