This weblog is dedicated to the Art of the 5L.

Art of:

Listening
Looking
Learning
Loving
Living

It includes Artwork, Music, Photography, Stories and other things, all work by Gilbert Medam.

The intent is to create a Space where new insights (insights are always new...) and discoveries are possible.
It's a blog to keep young and fresh, subtle and alert, curious and wise.
Have a good and safe journey!


Friday, January 23, 2009

Bird's eye view




































Like this: there are two main perspectives for looking at a landscape.
Like a tree you stand on the ground and look to the horizon line.
You can also fly like a bird and from the sky, look at the landscape, below.

Now , do this and you will find that what you see is completely different.
The bird's eye view gives much more a sense of texture, unfamiliar shapes that we qualify of abstract. Abstract because we have not yet completely invented a vocabulary to fragment and name what we see. Therefore it is much more difficult to describe.
But if we look at the landscape from the ground perspective,
then we see trees, mountains, lakes, skies or whatever we can isolate and label.
Of course it is much more familiar and we feel more comfortable in one sense.

It may be different for the bird...

We could look at our life like this. From a totally different perspective. Probably unusual at the beginning, but we can learn, can't we?

When these two perspectives merge, we have an immense field of perception open.

Lucky birds, that's maybe why they sing all day long.






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