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Lately Instagram has taken to showing me little clips and videos, similar to some of my own. These seven struck me enough to save, though I likely have over a hundred accumulated now. Each reminds me of a motif I try to capture in my own video work. People walking through a space, light dancing on a wall, the beauty and terror of the natural, stars, water and reflections. Thankfully it seems I am coming to a point where I can make more time for what I love. Thank you for joining me here for that.
Yesterday I landed back home from Mexico City and took the time to assemble another issue of Seven Saved Posts. This time focusing on the beauty of the spaces and nature here in Arizona, or those that look like they could belong to the Southwest. Hope you enjoy, and getting another issue ready for next week.
This week I read, or skimmed, a beautiful passage by Paul Tillich. But this newsletter is not yet for me to share the musings of what I read. What came to mind as I flipped through my Instagram saved posts was not this passage, but an awareness of what light does and how it feels. These images and videos, some "real", some not, all speak to this feeling I sometimes get from light and from seeing: of being overwhelmed. There is a charge and also a flattening that is felt when I observe some true beauty. These images share a general feeling of brightness, flash, color, that charged feeling, but also the feeling of flatness, of being flattened: face pressed up against the glass, torso to the ground to squeeze under or around some tight space. There is something there, as Tillich put it; "we unite with what we see." A closeness, an intimacy, a unification.
Or, as Jaydah puts it in the caption of our first post today: Sometimes I just don't have the words.
Hello friends, family, online acquaintances and strangers. I hope this email finds you grateful for another day alive on our beautiful earth. May I suggest we each take a deep breath and give a moment of our full attention to the posts contained within? Thank you for your time, attention, and the notes last week encouraging my own diaristic contributions to this newsletter.
Hello beautiful people, we are so back with another issue of Seven Saved Posts. Give these amazing artists, creatives and humans a follow and email me back with your favorite post in this issue if you feel so inclined. Forwarding this message to someone you love is also so awesome because if they love it they can subscribe at youlikemodernart.com.
Every night at 3am, my computer downloads all of my Instagram saved posts from the day before. I have always found Instagram, and especially Instagram saves, to be a walled garden, difficult to share and interact with except when inside the Instagram ecosystem. So, I built the archive, and thought it seemed like fun to pull a handful of images and text each week or two to share with friends and my online community. Thank you for tuning in
