watercolour and ink on paper

To understand outer sanctum

The naked lifelong student with the GRASSHOPPER mask stands tall, examining the architecture of the outer sanctum, waiting for understanding and inspiration, breathing slowly, deeply, opening the body to experience the new. After the breathing comes the drills. The first is quiet, gentle and precise. The drills that follow become harder and faster, taps become slaps, slaps become punches. The meditation becomes a performance but once again no one arrives to appreciate the performance. And so the performance ends, body prone.

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