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i have no answers
only questions   questions about photography
questions about today,
its the 4th of March 2025, Paris
and im sitting on the floor typing on my notes app:

[Pay attention to fleeting thoughts]
artmaking as spiritual practice
in times of constant uncertainty, radical upheaval and transition (impermanence)
(a constant work in progress)

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The trouble in the world is not there to defeat or to harm us,
but to awaken us to the unlived lives within us 
the longings and the callings that our souls would have us follow

How do we make work about the ‘now’ ?
Where are we even now?

Have we perhaps over adapted to a world that cannot give us what we are looking for?
(toxic resilience)
The old world is dead, the new one is not here yet.  The world you want to be in, isn’t here yet.

This place isn’t a place, It’s a moment—a moment where everything collides, where time is stretched, folded in on itself


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What is it that we need most in a time of radical uncertainty and upheaval?
What is being magnified by all the radical instability? Perhaps we have to rethink the idea of community* as society gets more divided and polarised by extreme ideologies

When most levels of nature and aspects of culture are simultaneously manifesting disruptive symptoms, we have a greater need for symbols that can remind us of the underlying unity and beauty, that could help us find ways to connect the moments we are living
no matter how broken they might seem