Experiment (photo taken on Blackberry transferred to home computer)
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Sadhana
I took leave in the middle of the day in between working for several hours at home and going into the office for a semi-obligatory office party. It was cold, but it was good people were out. One citizen speaker talked about how she is finding her voice and learning to raise it. Her child needs medical care.
Shiva Nataraja
This murti of Nataraja has been in the window of a store near where I work for at least 20 years. I often walk past is and just as often stop to admire it. I have never really considered taking it home, lovely as it is. The murti is simply too large for any of my rooms. I have mentioned its needing a home to a couple of different friends, who were looking for large murtis of Nataraja, over the past few months, but none have followed through.
Today, when I was walking past it on a lunchtime walk to the bank, I noticed a “commercial property for rent” sign in the window. I will miss having this resplendent image in my work neighborhood, but not enough to buy it and bring it home. I decided, though, to take a photograph. I know the owner only very casually, but well enough to know he is retiring, rather than being driven out by rising rental costs or the recession. The neighborhood has gotten trendier since Nataraja first appeared in the window. Nataraja might be replaced with a delicious restaurant or a fabulous store purveying things that entice me. Or the space could stay vacant or be used for something that holds no interest for me whatsoever.
Nataraja–lord of the dance of concealment and revelation, of dissolution and manifestation–is dancing here. The murti will be sold or transported away when the shop closes and will physically be gone.
I will have my memories of the image, a photograph I took with my BlackBerry, and will have had a sweet opportunity to observe the lord of the dance dancing away his own image.
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Okay, I’ll bite. What is it? And did the experiment work?
What a fabulous image, especially at full size. Thanks for posting it!
Thanks Dan. I never cease to marvel at the extraordinary powers we have created with technology. With a little thing I hold in my pocket, I can take a picture of a sidewalk, transfer it to a box on my desk, and then transmit it for millions to see if they so choose. I think holding on to the awe helps keep it feeling like technology is ruling my life as opposed to providing more avenues for creative expression.
ps. Gayle–the experiment was seeing if I could successfully use the technology. The Blackberry is relatively new, and blogging from the Blackberry newer still.