What Remains? investigates through Vipashyana meditation and creative practices what remains when we deconstruct the grasping, aversion and confusion within our thoughts, emotions, memories, sensations and notions of self. It is a bridge linking Mindweathersong with Here Not Here.
I will make a large artist’s handmade book inquiring into what remains when we strip away impermanent, changing thoughts, emotions and identities. Incorporating hand written questions with drawn, painted and photographic collages, in textured, transparent and translucent layers, the inquiry poses self-reflection questions to readers, inviting them to contemplate their own inner processes. No answers are given, so people can find their own responses.
Deliverables: Hand-made artist’s book/s; studies, visual and written documentation for developing into essays, articles, publications, talks, resource book, artist’s monograph, workshops, exhibition, blog, website
Progress
Following a couple of weeks of reflection and journaling, I became interested in using selections from the sorting of 40 years of old artwork, photos and journals I had done between October 2019-January 2020. My intention was to select images, poetry and prose arousing strong feelings of attachment, aversion or confusion to use as starting points for creatively responding to and altering in the present moment using Vipashyana inquiry and meditation practices.
Below: images to be used as starting points for contemplative and creative responses:
Older work relevant for this theme
