2008
How does an artist use awareness to destroy dull and conventional habits? What is your awareness practice? Can you let anything arise in full freedom of expression? What is your direct experience? Cage’s time as container versus narrative closure. Whatever arises is perfect.
Now reinterpreted to today- as an entry, written Dec 06, 2023
Daily after breakfast I lift off the edge of the day. The border of blue linen sheets, stretching into the land of dream, to find what lies, glimmering, beneath the surface of the nocturnal. With the key safely tucked away in my 3rd double cappuccino, I ride across the Colorado sky on a long-legged palm tree, make a date with a friend carrying a nerve lantern to find my small boat that leads me through the clouds to a night tower with four snarling Pitt Bulls on guard. Bombastic, but bullying me none the less, daring me to pass. Once inside the dimly lit tower, I find a single keyboard that only plays the naked piano structures of Erik Satie. I sit listening, breathing in through my nose. Wring out the dull. Lethargy built over night dreaming with its jaws only ever so little by little loosening its grip. It is only after this mind Yoga that I can sit and meditate to launch my way back, the way I came, back to the border where I lifted off the edge of the day trying to feel the expansive space, that never ends, it expands, without closure, as in Cage’s time.
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