Winter Solstice & Season’s Salutations friends
Saturday 21st December 2024
in the northern hemisphere
the day of least daylight…
(& the return of the light)
winter’s commencement
kitchen sink studio: recommendations
The Color of Pomegranates (1968) groundbreaking film,
exquisite: stunning imagery, poignant, evocative.
Sergei Paradjanov’s celebrated, dreamlike masterpiece
paints an astonishing portrait
of the 18th century Armenian poet Sayat Nova,
the ‘King of Song’.
PJ Harvey documentary A Dog called Money (2019) (on Mubi)
stunning, poignant, heartbreaking, heroic:
documentary footage PJ in Kosovo, Afghanistan
+ live in the studio
Laura Poitras/Nan Goldin
All The Beauty & the Bloodshed (2022) (on Apple tv)
biographical documentary film about photographer,
artist, and activist Nan Goldin and the downfall
of the Sackler family: the pharmaceutical dynasty
greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic in the U.S.
gratitude gratitude gratitude
grace
gorgeousness
honouring friendship
acknowledgement
keepin’ on keepin’ on
complete perceptual openness
freedom in the immediacy of each perception
the beauty of decay
the loveliness of impermanence
the past comes to visit in the present:
the gift that keeps on giving
it’s never too late to have a happy childhood
Chuck Spezzano
in the 70’s some of us squatted in the wild
wonderful Kingdom of Frestonia, west London
a handmade book (circa 2015) honouring all those
who have generously shared their
strengths, gifts and talents with us
beautiful teachers and teachings everywhere
each life contains the seeds for flourishing,
which ones will we water….
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I see each human being as complete.
Within each one shines a sun so bright
that it can make any darkness go away.
Prem Rawat
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work from the studio: collage unstuck
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noticing differently, the quotidian transmutes into the mysterious
creatives we admire
Tove Jansson (1914–2001)
murals exhibition in Finland: Paradise
William Kentridge co-creator of
The Centre for the Less Good Idea
in Johannesburg….he states
most of the interesting things that have appeared in my art –
or what was of interest to viewers I should say –
have not been things I’ve planned,
but things that other people have recognised
and things that I’ve later come to recognise myself.
All the clear good ideas I think I’ve had,
have always been much more shaky,
which is why I (co) started the Centre
Lillian F. Schwartz During the 70s and 80s
Schwartz developed a catalogue of visionary techniques
for the use of the computer system, by artists
beauty everywhere….
behind the bathroom door…
around the Vale of Health & Wellbeing aka Arnos Vale, our local cemetery
thank you for visiting
we trust something tickled your fancy
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this post honours Lilla’s heart teacher, Ziji Rinpoche;
we are enjoying listening to the wisdom nature of mind
in her profound Timeless Awareness audio talks
https://timelessawareness.org/
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When the death of the physical body occurs, you will be separated from all the things that you have ever loved. Just as you were born alone, you will enter death absolutely alone. It is necessary to spend some time thinking about this, for contemplation on death is a great form of meditation on impermanence.
from Ziji Rinpoche’s book When Surfing a Tsunami
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