exercise

You are beholding an icon... 

The image is poor, and demands your veneration. 


Take the icon entirely and let it act on you...

The icon gives and demands a simple eye.


Concentrate on elements of the icon, forms, colors, details... 

Images open for interpretation.

Then you take the icon again in its fullness...
Move between the detail and the total image

The icon gives itself as a mirror illuminating your countenance.

An experience from a participant:

“The practice of perceiving opens my head and also my heart. I love this environment and all things and people in it. It’s good to be here. Usually, I don’t take the time for this. I watch where I am walking, though, for not stepping in dogshit or walking against a tree. And at home I play music, but I listen rarely to it. Strange, that perceiving feels as a waste of time, while in fact I am making time here: I am participating in the time of my environment, which is moving much slower than I am.”