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.

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thoughts in motion
motion in three dimensions

damascus.

8. damascus room


metropolitan museum. gallery 461.

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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.

mayzata.

6. frank lloyd wright room (wayzata)

metropolitan museum. gallery 745.

When we draw down the power and depth of vastness into a single perception,

then we are discovering and invoking magic (Trungpa, Collected Works vol. 8: 82)

next: views

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playgrounds for sound.

5. the city that houses our our yearnings. our songs.

opening mental territory with sound. 

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municipal view.
curating views to build playgrounds for sounds.
nightlines to inhabit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

will these spaces withstand our experiments? our reveries?

sz2.

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wentworth.

4. Wentworth staircase

metropolitan museum. gallery 716.

upstairs to a room

songs climbing the wentworth.

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McKim, Mead & White Stair Hall

metropolitan museum. gallery 741.

bird's lament.

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views.

3. views.

Instead of storytelling, we encounter “views.” spaces in the city. glimpses into possibilities in place. discovering a view and following its traces. invoking the fantasy of being elsewhere – while right here. embracing the imaginal built in fading smoke.

uncovering american yugen. just beyond reach. obstructed. promising warmth and welcome at a destination to which you never arrive.

chogyam trungpa. shambhala: the sacred path of the warrior. in collected works of chogyam trungpa, vol. 8 (2004): 82:

When we draw down the power and depth of vastness into a single perception, then we are discovering and invoking magic.

Normally, we limit the meaning of perceptions. Food reminds us of eating; dirt reminds us to clean the house; snow reminds us that we have to clean off the car to get to work; a face reminds us of our love or hate. In other words, we fit what we see into a comfortable or familiar scheme. We shut any vastness or possibilities of deeper perception out of our hearts by fixating on our own interpretation of phenomena. But it is possible to go beyond personal interpretation, to let vastness into our hearts through the medium of perception. We always have a choice: We can limit our perception so that we close off vastness, or we can allow vastness to touch us.

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