During my recent meditation retreat in India, I attended a brilliant workshop on the Five Aggregates, a foundational Buddhist framework for investigating the nature of self and experience.
The framework resonated immediately with my art practice and research, particularly in how it maps the area I’m exploring through ThoughtCounter.
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A couple of weeks ago, whilst in India, I visited Matrimandir – Auroville’s meditation chamber at the heart of Sri Aurobindo’s experimental town.
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My yoga instructor inspired me with something she said in Tuesday’s class… “notice your mind, notice your heart, notice your body”.
(more…)Watching Mark Farid and Michael Landy speak about their work, I noticed how clearly they were articulating their practice. I’m at the beginning of my MA, and my practice still feels a little vague and it’s constantly evolving.
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An installation idea examining how yantras encode specific mechanisms for altering visual perception — using controlled light environments to test in three-dimensional space.
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Exploring how contemporary artists transformed yantras from ritual diagrams into modern visual languages while retaining their perceptual power.
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While reviewing my highlights from Frieze, I noticed there were some clear themes that connected to the perceptual alteration research I’ve been doing.
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This post explores six perceptual phenomena that illuminate how we see, perceive time, and experience awareness — both in daily life and in meditation.
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Neuroscientist Anil Seth presents how the self is not what it seems — it’s a controlled hallucination created by the brain, just like our perception of the external world.
His video reminded me of some illustrations I’d previously seen on Swami J’s yoga & meditation website, and there are some striking parallels.
I explored several TED talks by leading researchers and scholars who are challenging our most basic intuitions about perception, consciousness, and reality itself. Fascinating insights.
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