bostonwine on Nostr: This is a lovely work. As is your new painting, Carlo. Your description reminds me of ...

This is a lovely work. As is your new painting, Carlo. Your description reminds me of the space between an inhale and an exhale, the moment of simultaneous pause and movement, like how a wave rolls into and over itself at the beginning, or at the end, when it reaches its limit on the sand, standing still for an instant yet also moving both forward, and backward.

I’ll never forget the experience of sitting by the ocean, breathing in time with it. At first I tried what I had been told: exhale when the wave came up the sand, inhale when it receded… but it felt misaligned.

I swapped, inhaling as the water came toward me. When it reached as far as it could, so too had my lungs taken all the air they could hold. The sensation of still motion, from inhale to exhale, matched perfectly with the movement of the water. It was a rare flow state, but it stuck with me.

Thank you both for the reminder 🙏