Drishti: Sanskrit for soft gaze

My process in this series, and in general, draws on the practice of Drishti where one looks into the world while maintaining the multidimensional “knowing” from behind closed eyes.

In The Voice of the Earth, Theodore Roszak presents a provocative theory that the roots of our collective misbehavior can be found in the historic and conceptual split between “in-here” and “out-there.” This dichotomy manifests as the large and despairing gap we feel between ourselves and nonhuman nature.” (Laura Sewell, The Skill of Ecological Perception). Painting becomes a devotional practice. On good days, boundaries between “in-here” and “out-there”, self and other, self and place, self and painting, and the visible and invisible dissolve.