I am profoundly blessed in my life.  Thank  you.

I went to RARE park at 3:30 in the morning- guided by the moonlight! And I made it to the river!

What a great name for a park don't you think?

Empty containers
Emeriging from the
Fluiid mirror or now

Today we presented our landscape installation.  I will post more pictures later.
Also, we took a class photo today because we will be graduating soon!
It has been 5 years and so much has happened!

Yesterday, my friends and I composed a series of 'mise en scenes' -themed on the river landscape in Cambridge, Ontario.  We used a projector to project images and landscapes that reflect the psyche of the person that perceives the landscape.  We are developping a thesis that landscape is like a painting in the minds, eye; coloured by the psyche of the person.  It was really interesting to see how each scene, which, was composed with one of the five members, became very personal, indeed.  The process by which we developped and created the installations grew organically and the result was not known from the beginning.  We originally began with the thesis that the river is symbolic of 'one body' that contains within it thousands of voices/landscapes, morphing to become all of them yet at the same time remaining 'one body'.  I have been studying the river a lot this summer and I have been present to its various forms.

In our photographs we captured the following
1.  River as a keeper of memory, evocative of the romantic mythology of the river/bridge in the city
2.  River, the rising liquid that floods and destroys.
3.  River as a medium of contemplation and poetry
4.  River, and its edge as a landscape of repose
5.  River and bridges, the bridge as a thunderous cloud above the river

I have been designing a Pavilion inspired on the Grand River, here in Cambridge Ontario.  It is for my final project at the School of Architecture.  I have been working on it for a few months now and I feel it to be inextricably tied to my spiritual journey at this time.  I am very excited about it and I would like to share it with all of you.  I will be posting images and sketches of it here as I work on it and at the end I will put up the final drawings.  For now, I have uploaded this image of the east elevation.  The facade is inspired on the many morphologies of the river's surface.  It is composed of vertical expanded metal mesh ribbons that transform from the parallel to the perpendicular plane.  The entire ground floor is a reflecting pool.

Yesterday, I opened up a journal that I had written in about my last two weeks in New York when I lived there last year.  It was a time of really intense party, work, drink, eat and play.  Everyday blended into each other.  I read it out load to my friend and after I felt a gentle vibration in my hands similar to what I had felt for the first time about a month ago.

Today, I was watching an Allan Watts video (myth of myself) with my good friend and during out I burst out crying for a quick moment.  After I but my head in her arms for a minute.

I have been meditating on the river for a few months now.  It has opened up for me a new spiritual chapter in my life.  A few years ago I read 'Siddhartha' by Hesse and I remember it has resonated with me a lot back in the day when I read it..l so I read  it again.  Since I currently live in front of a river I began to look at it for inspirtation for my architecture design project for my final term of undergraduate studies.  Suddenly, synchronicities began to pile upon synchronicities until I experienced an “awakening” moment when I was reading (Robert A Johnsons' “Inner work”)- the awakening was to a window of 'oneness vision' that I had for about 5 days.  For those five days I felt very 'in tune' and in the flow of life.  Synchronicities were happening all the time and I felt like everything had meaning and that everything was in its perfect place and time.  I felt that everything that ever happened in my life led to this moment.  The people I had befriended, the lessons I had to learn, the challenges, etc.  One day, I was talking to my professor about all of the things that I was experiencing and she said that it sounded like I was in love!  Then, I read the quote that started it all (see quotes section) and as I finished reading it, I began to cry.  Then, the most unexpected thing happened...  I had never experienced it before... my hands began to vibrate! 

Its just so amazing and I am trying to step into that place as often as I can where I can simply observe what is happening and marvel at it.  To constantly step out of my head and feel what is happening.  To think how bizarre it is that I am inside this body (or around it) and that I see the world through this perspective.