[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Artistic submissions sought -- depicting "the reality of the unseen"

Dear all,

My friend Emily Larned is an amazing artist whose original handmade books are widely exhibited and collected by institutions like MoMA, the Tate, the V&A, the Getty and the Smithsonian.  

She's also an avid dharma practitioner, and is bringing this together with art and looking for submissions below for a new piece she's working on.  See below for details -- please consider submitting as a way to explore creativity and deepen your practice!

Warmly,

Megan

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Seeing "The Reality of the Unseen" *

How does "insight into the true nature of reality" appear to you? 

First-hand accounts of Vipassana meditation in words and/or pictures are sought for publication in an anthology zine. What images, processes, visualizations describe what you experience while meditating?

Zen and Tibetan meditation both have long, rich, well-known traditions of visual and written art forms associated with their practice: poetry, koans, brush paintings, mandalas. In conversation with other insight meditators, many have described vivid visualizations of what is happening within. What is yours? 

_ text can be pasted into the body of an email (no minimum, 500 word max)

_ text can be handwritten, and scanned at 300dpi, or photographed hi-res (the zine measures 5x7 inches, a double page spread 10x7 inches)

_ original drawings / collages / images may be scanned at 300dpi, or photographed hi-res (the zine measures 5x7 inches, a double page spread 10x7 inches)

Submissions may be edited for clarity or fit.

Everyone who is published in the zine will receive a contributor's copy in the mail. 

Please include your mailing address with your email submission.

Freely forward this call for submissions to any Vipassana meditators you know who might enjoy participating.

Email to: emily.k.larned@gmail.com

Deadline: May 1, 2019

Learn more about my work at emilylarned.com and impractical-labor.org

* Willam James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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