Coming Home Meditation Tomorrow ~ Choose Both ~ Tues 9-10:15am EST
Join me for a meditation inspired by art! A trip to Superblue in Miami...
Dear Friends,
This week, my daughter and I have come to Miami to visit friends. It’s been a healthy and welcome respite form the descending winter in upstate New York. A reminder that warmth and sunshine can be found still…can be felt still. We are soaking it in and will bring it home with us on Wednesday.
Today our friends took us to Superblue, an immersive art experience. We wandered through warehouse-size installations. All of them were beautiful—absolutely beautiful. There was an emphasis on the organic, natural and ethereal: a room full of clouds you could walk through, lightbulbs that blink in time with your pulse, walls and floors of budding, blooming flowers that appear where you stand, a light sculpture by the incredible James Turrell.
But, my favorite was an immersive exploration of the similarities between the formation of tree branches and our lungs. This work, Forest of Us, was created by the British artist, Es Devlin. It starts with a brief film that opens like a door into a maze of mirrors (pictured above). Watch this incredible walk through by the artist…
The video starts with this voice over: “Every time I reach a fork in the road, I choose both paths…and then choose both again at the next division. The more my paths divide and multiply, the more of myself I offer to the air…” She is speaking as herself, a human and an artist, but could also be speaking as a tree or a river. This is how trees branch—by taking both paths; and how water moves. Why not the human spirit?
I contemplated this as I walked into the maze, which immediately offers the participant a myriad of choices…left, right, straight ahead, up the stairs, around the bend. The atmosphere is calm and light, the effect stunning. You never feel trapped by this maze, but gently encouraged forward in something like a “right direction.” I don’t know how—maybe because it was made with the lungs in mind, the trees in mind—but I felt certain whatever path I chose, I would find the light, the end, the sky, the air. It’s a JOY to wander through.
At each fork in the road, I chose both paths…just as she suggested. Of course, my physical body went one direction, but my consciousness went both. At each fork, as I did this same maneuver, I felt my consciousness expanding throughout the space. I was truly offering more of myself to the air and I could “see” it happening through all of the mirrored reflections—infinite and myriad reflections of me…so many facets. More of me was brought to light. I found myself in a mild ecstasy, tearing up from the sheer wonder and joy of it all, and the relief of not having to choose this or that, but both!
Tomorrow (Tuesday 9-10:15am EST) we will meditate on the miraculous design of this body and the expansive possibilities of choosing both over and over again. Let’s see where it takes us.
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