Accompanying photographs are mine. The intention is to share some of my work which is conjured with the approach and spirit outlined in this essay.

Intro:
If we are lucky enough to have the gift of sight, we can express this gift to others. We can share and relate what we see and in so doing, discover how we see and more astonishingly just who is doing the seeing. We write about what we see and we tell each other what we saw in our dreams. We document our claims to experience through our photography. All of these activities are relational, and in relating we animate a mirror that defines ourselves, indicating the “I.” We learn about perception and the poetry of life is activated when we relate.

Perception is the gate leading to the belief in an unchanging self while serving as a portal going beyond it. Insight meditation can be useful in waking up our fixed notions of self. This can bring awareness to the interdependent nature of the objects seen with the person doin...