Last post I said you can practice turning your attention to ON. Yes, you can, and it’s wise to practice.
Musicians, for example, practice. Even very advanced performers practice scales. This practice will shine through when they’re performing on stage in thrilling, ecstatic passages of a piece. The practice itself made this ecstasy possible, but the practice itself is not ecstatic. It’s discipline.
I walk into my kitchen one morning, my to-do list for that day writ large in my brain. As I turn to the fridge, my jaw drops and my eyes pop. I either had never seen this light effect before or it happens every morning but I’m just always behind in my “attention practice.”
I grab my camera and click.
This is not a great moment in the history of photography.
Why, then, is it valuable? Because it records a constellation: the alignment of
- the angle of the sun
- the placement of that bamboo plant
- the moment I entered that room
- my attention on ON
The photo reminds me that such an alignment is possible. It happened. It doesn’t happen every day and it’s worth paying attention when it does happen.
Next, we’ll look at Derain.
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