Definitions

Nature

Everything that exists is nature. This is because even an object such as a car was built using materials found in nature and it will eventually disintegrate and will be used by some organism to become part of life. As it relates to the project, the nature is the site and the people who occupy it. Dead or alive – everything present there is nature. A dead tree at least is as much full of live as is a live one.

ART

Art is freedom. Freedom to express our feelings in a form that is more closely related to how we feel. Language is not something that everyone could use to easily express emotions. Art is something that we can all use to do that. Art is also experimentation, it is a search for meaning. In the project, art is a form of meditation and a way to find our own center. To many, it will start as experimentation, like learning to walk, but it could teach us to fly.

Contemplation

Contemplation is meditation. It is a way to for us to hear ourselves. It is a way of listening and hearing ourselves through others. Smelling the flowers. Observing ourselves by observing nature.  Thinking about one thing at the time and avoiding disruption.

Leadership

Leading by example. Teaching. Immense drive and relentless obsession. Experience. Talk softly, but carry a big stick. In the project, it is leading without having any followers.  Inventing the path as you go.

Order

Order is the hierarchy. It is the invisible and silent rhythm. The order could be dynamic and static at the same time. Like a floating iceberg. In the project, it is procession and it is the specific order of experiences.

Unity

The unity is when different parts make up a whole, while preserving their identity.  In project, it is people of different religions and non-religions come together and become one with nature and each other. Their unique experiences enhance the intensity of the whole. The people, their things, their dwellings, their neighborhoods, their cities within walking distance, their city within driving distance, the neighboring cities, the state or province, country, neighboring countries, their continent (or island), the neighboring continent (islands),

Stylin'

Conversion in the evolutionary sense relates very well to the natural world. But we have to keep in mind that sometimes the world didn’t not evolve, but just happened when it reached a certain point. The big bang, needed to have a cataclysmic change of state to have occurred. Creation of new species only happens after environmental variables have reached a “boiling point” creating “perfect conditions”.  Stylin’ could be part of wider patterns, that we are unable to see at the moment. They could be in a some way part of some larger cataclysmic event. I am not saying that I want to mindlessly create forms; I am just saying that we need to be critical, even of our own thoughts. 

Reading of the world

I see the world full of people who are all different, each have their own reality. Most of the people are “good” (in their own way) and are in search of “better tomorrow”: they want to live in peace and relative comfort.  Most everyone struggles to survive be it in the poorest conditions, or bathing in riches. Like mentioned above, everyone sees the world different – wealthy people also, really do cry.

Western societies have become richer and richer, but also more and more lonely. Family has become secondary to the career. 

I also see the television as the new religion. Not a religion of spirituality that heals people and communities, but religion of control of masses. Propaganda.

I think that governments are becoming more and more irrelevant. Corporations rule across borders. In a way, they are like a plane that always stays in the air. Stopping for fuel is optional.

“May I see your papers!”

I also think that we live in a amazing times. Times of unprecedented possibility for anyone. Internet is the ultimate tool of democracy that has given the voice to anyone who can read and write. I hope we can preserve this free-speech. It is very precious and delicate. It can be lost at any moment.