A Vocal Recording about Sensation and Emotion, 12 minutes
It was a lot of the Buddha-like, be still and sense an emotion or feeling about my surroundings. At the time I was feeling frustration about a computer program not functioning properly. 🙂 But I get the basic idea and most of what I see in nature gives me a positive sensation or emotion that I am not able to describe in words.
The Photo Art of Uta Barth
A group of images of hers made mostly inside her house like the folds of a curtain. Above is the class website link or anyone can go to her Uta Barth Website.
Recommended music: Sleeping at Last – Saturn
Sort of weird and different like much of this class which reminds me of a period of time my son went through when a teenager, though before he came out as a transsexual woman named Athena. Also I kept wanting to know how they created that sensation of backwards raining light. Creative technology is something else altogether from the simple beauty that I see in some of my nature photography. Maybe this kind of presentation will help lift my photography to a new or different level and maybe not. In some ways we are on different pages of “sensation & emotion.”
The Speaker’s Summary of “What you heard today:”
Phenomenology of Perception – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
This French philosopher proposed that we do not perceive with the mind in isolation, but with the whole body, from our living presence in the world. His work Phenomenology of Perception is key to understanding how body and consciousness are intertwined in direct experience.
Read more on Wikipedia (A major statement of French existentialism.)
Thích Nhất Hạnh – Zen Master
Vietnamese Buddhist monk and poet, his teachings revolve around mindfulness as a way of perceiving deeply. He invites us to inhabit the present with all our senses, to “touch” life in everyday moments.
And My Personal Summary
Thus far I continue to have mixed feelings about a class that is a Buddhist-centered teaching of “Mindfulness” with a minor emphasis on photography or nature, but it is broadening my concepts of mindfulness and occasionally giving me an idea for a photo. The photos of mine that I am adding to illustrate these notes may or may not fit your concept of the lesson, but they are my effort to keep the learning personal and intimate and relate it to my nature photography. I am not sure that I will ever be on the same page with this teacher, Amparo Muñoz Morella. She is now sending a letter to students each week in addition to the lecture links. This week she shared that . . .
The International University of La Rioja (UNIR) has published my Master’s Thesis research in its academic repository:
“Evaluation of the Use of Photography as a Tool for Self-Knowledge and Well-Being from the Perspective of Third-Wave Therapies”. ~Amparo Muñoz Morella
FYI: The International University of La Rioja (UNIR) often simply referred to as UNIR, is a Spanish private university located in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. It has also campuses in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.
Address: Av. de la Paz, 137, 26006 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain ~Wikipedia
From Google AI: “Green islands” on a browning leaf are caused by living pests or pathogens that manipulate the plant’s hormones. They excrete cytokinins (plant growth hormones) that trick the leaf into delaying its natural death and keeping its green chlorophyll active in that specific area.
¡Pura Vida!
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