Art & Perception

Each thing exists according to its nature. The tree leans in the wind because that is what the wind and the tree do together.

Yet, we rarely meet things as they are. Instead, we filter reality through the mind's tangle of habits, stereotypes, and assumptions. These habitual thoughts form a veil, preventing us from encountering the world directly.

Art has the quiet power to interrupt this pattern.

When we view a painting or listen to music, there's an opportunity to see our conditioning. How we often rush to label, judge, or explain.

In this moment, something can loosen. And in that loosened space, the world begins to come alive.

When we allow each thing, including ourselves, to be as it is—without fixing or grasping—it reveals its full potential. Not as we expect it to be, but as it truly is here and now.