THE VELVETY DARK

Today I remind you simply:
Leave room for the mystery.

This is where all growth begins- again and again.
Mystery belongs woven into the fabric of all that is seen and known, of all that is manifest, for every known fact is an island in a vast ocean of unknown.

Here is a poem to inspire you;

The Velvety Dark

Do not fear the velvety dark

You are made of that mystery

The source behind

The source behind

More vast and fertile than 

We can ever imagine

Darkness portal through which the infinite pours forth

The velvety dark creates empty radiance

Consciousness becomes collected

and manifest-

A whisper, a breathe, a beating heart

Organs that ride in on the emotional tide

A body

A body our key to the mystery 

The darkness in its curved crevasse

The hint of what you are looking for is

the substance of which you are made

Till the manifest falls away

And you are nowhere again

Mother of nothing

Void of everything

-

poem- tracy kate broyles fall 2020

photography: Adrian Hutapea 2020

And for the lavish of it, here is a collaboration Adrian and I did last year,,, inspired by the velvety dark.. (link will take you to youtube)