On attunement

To make yourself receptive to other ways of knowing, the first step is to shift your perceptual boundaries beyond the human scope into the animate landscape around and within you. All of nature lives in a kinship of mutuality; whether it’s the pairing of trees with fungi, flowers with pollinating animals, or seed dispersal relationships, mutualisti

These paintings taught me about attention and duration, and that what I’ll see depends on how I look, and for how long. It’s a lot like breathing. Some kind of attention will always be present, but when we take hold of it, we have the ability to consciously direct, expand, and contract it.

To look at something that can gaze back at you, or that has a reserve and depth, can heal your eyes and deepen your sense of vision.