From the the contemporary fragmentation of the spirit, this idea emerges.
There is an inherent desire to belong within life itself, and when we realize that we are no different from a fish dancing before mating, or from a bird that remains in the nest after its young are born, existence creates connections.
I believe in nature as both kin and counselor. The charged sky pours out messages; the human, when unoccupied, seeks to occupy themselves. I have been thinking about stopping, listening, and contemplating.
There is a void within our bodies, filled in a way that does not nourish.
We are constantly induced to interruption in any exercise of full presence. The absence of silence empties the human sense of self-perception. As Byung-Chul Han notes in Vita Contemplativa “Only silence enables us to hear something unheard. The obligation to communicate, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same.” Without full presence, we lose awareness of what we are in that very moment; thus, communication becomes an automatic reproduction of what is already known, rather than the unique expression each situation deserves.
When we turn our gaze toward contemplation, we open ourselves to the possibility of recognizing our intentions reflected in the world around us. The wave that returns to the ocean, carrying all that it has gathered, is revolt. The wave that arrives softly, baptizing a newborn and bringing the sparkle of new life, is gentle. The nature that surrounds us expresses and communicates.
If we become able to contemplate the spaces that belong to nature, we come into contact with visual expressions capable of illuminating what within us is still shadow. By referencing nature, we may recognize what appears incomprehensible but deeply felt.
A lost symbolism resurfaces when we gather the drives of the universe and of the inner being, intertwined as we awaken to what we are.
A symbolism = intertwined drives.
Symbolisms
Interwines
Drives
What passes through our field of vision and is assimilated, beyond what we see, but what we contemplate, reflects what we are and in what we become:
The act of contemplation through the lens of a camera transforms capturing into a dialogue between the inner self and the surrounding world.
