Sarah
Vincent-Hoag

Recently, I have been making little sketches of figures inside of seed forms.  As the weight of the pandemic lifts,life becomes more normal and I start to emerge from my time alone, I’ve been thinking about how this experience will take shape in the world, both personally and collectively. 

When you open up a seed, you can’t see the tree inside, but you know that this is where the tree comes from.

The past three years have been a very special time for me, sinking deeply into solitude, appreciating the quiet and minimal distractions that come with what most of the world has experienced during the pandemic. It's been difficult, but a rich source of creativity and a deeper expression of what I have learned have been uncovered. 

The space in a small pot is the same as in a large pot; both are limitless space. The pot space that understands that it is only apparently limited by the walls of the pot because even the pot is within space, will realize that it is identical with limitless space, and will no longer feel limited. This knowledge is called here the brahmi state, a state that is Brahman, limitlessness.  It is not a state of experience; it is the vision of the mind brought about by the knowledge that one is free from all limitation - Swami Dayananda from his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita