In // The Time Being
A Meditation on Stillness and Action
Three found chairs and a bench, painted gold, become small altars to the time being. Softened by punch-hooked cushions, their surfaces trace the repetitive patterns of breath and thought—each one the same, yet utterly its own. They sit solitary and communal at once; humble in form, luminous in presence.
Like a gentle game of musical chairs, the series contemplates the human dance between connection and displacement—how at times we feel we’re “winning” at life’s game, and at other times find ourselves briefly without a seat, without a sense of belonging.
Representing childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, each chair becomes an invitation—an altar of attention reminding me that stillness is not stagnation. As we move around the chairs, I’m reminded that growth is rarely linear. My children often understand in an instant what it took me years to learn. And I often find myself relearning lessons I thought I had already mastered. This is the curriculum of life school: looping, pausing, circling back, arriving out of sequence, and beginning again.
We return to different seats—different stages—many times before we’re ready to stand or to move. When I pause long enough to listen, movement arises naturally.
2019
