Beautiful Darkness

This image is from the movie The Royal Tenenbaums. I think it is dark, yet at the same time deeply poetic and beautiful.

Another Quote (I am all about quotes these days)

I came across another quote which I love the significance of (a superb way of looking at obstacles and annoyances, no matter in which disguise they appear knocking at the metaphorical door of life (because I am pretty sure they wouldn't ring the doorbell or let you know in advance that they are coming!)):

That which stands in the way is the way.

This quote tends to also remind me of another quote: Life is what happens when you've made other plans. Interesting because, and I am sure that you are aware of the following fact, things do seem to go wrong a hell of a lot, or turn out different than expected. Hmmmm.

The Body and (My) Jewellery

If it was totally up to me, and I could decide anything with guaranteed success, I would sell jewellery strictly not to be worn. Over the years my work has (d)evolved, I am sure, from artistic jewellery objects (check www.sebastianbuescher.com), exploring insects and a conceptual approach to the world of nature, to wearable ceramic jewels.

Strange, the more I have done this, and the more I have been involved with galleries, the more wearable my work has become, and the less I seem to be interested in all of this (maybe I am devolving straight of out this discipline???). I love the idea of my jewels being agents for awareness in terms of wearing them, meaning people have to be careful and attentive. But overall, as I make work, I never include the human body. And I have even said, and I know that this can sound harsh to some, but if you are involved in jewellery you will probably understand this, that wearing some of my jewels will in a way ruin them (they are placed and therefore defined by a body/person).

The moment I started jewellery as a profession, the body became separated from it and I would rebel against anything that would unite them. Perhaps this could be seen as a means to explore the field of contemporary jewellery, or perhaps I just needed to make my own path that much harder, so I threw a big log in the way!

work in progress

The Deep

These images were taken from The Blue Planet (The Deep), while I was watching it. I love taking photos of movies (something odd about it and I like the way the final photograph is a bit fuzzy and blurred). Regarding the content of the images. There is something almost mystical about the deep dark ocean, home to unusual creatures, heat and freezing cold. Sunlight doesn't reach that far down, yet living organisms exist. The strangest of strange (and I am sure that I always questioned this while watching Spongebob Squarepants) is an underwater lake, see top image.

This is a paragraph from the book I am currently studying. I think that the entire book has many pearls of wisdom and inspirational words. The following is one that I especially like:

Nobody can tell you who you are. It would just be another concept, so it would not change you. Who you are requires no belief. In fact, every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already are who you are. But without realization, who you are does not shine forth into this world. It remains in the unmanifested which is, of course, your true home. You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential.

What I think is so beautiful about this conglomeration of words is its simplicity and the ability to give me in a nutshell the entire wisdom of the book, or teachings of the author. For the past 5 years I have been trying to figure out who I am, what I want, what to do, etc, etc, bla, bla, bla, and while things can interest me, touch me or affect me, the search continued until I got to this book. And while it may sound naive to simply read a book and believe in it, I can only say that when you read something (or hear something) that resonates and touches you in a place so deep that you feel like you are complete already (and so far this is very subtle), then that is worth far more than endlessly trying to figure things out (which perhaps cannot be figured out), which is what I have been doing.

Right now roots are being uprooted, things are cut open and turned inside out and I am looking underneath layers upon layers of experience, only to find more layers. Of course all of this is merely mental and emotional, nothing you can actually touch or hold or really cut open. And while I am utterly (still) confused by all of this, I am beginning to realize what the core is. And so my quest continues....

Quote of the Day

I love words, especially when they are used in a way to create a sentence in perfect harmony that resonates peace and love. Today's quote comes from a book that I have been studying for the past 5 months. I wasn't asked to study this seemingly small 300 page piece of literature, yet find myself so intrigued by its content that I read it again and again and again (and almost wish that there was a course I could attend to study it in greater depth). Obsessive as it may sound, I even have the mp3 of the book, so I can also listen to it, which allows its contents to be studied even further as I do not have to read as well.

I think this book has initiated a transformation within me. Much of the purpose of this book is to educate the reader in the field of conscious awareness, or presence, and to 'awaken' to life, in order not to drift around endlessly trying to find happiness in the things that are out there. I am not entirely sure what has changed within me, this is yet to be seen, but I feel different, like my overall energy field is more calm, peaceful, happy. I also think that now all I have experienced is the teeny tiny tip of the gigantic iceberg of what is actually possible, in terms of inner peace and inner happiness.

So here is today's quote:


Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and Being.