I sent off the contracts for a few shows I will be lighting at the Barter Theatre this spring and fall in Virginia. Two musicals and two plays. It should be a fun time. I had a great time working there this past fall on Dracula and Driving Miss Daisy and am very pleased to be returning.
Yesterday I met with my friend Kate to talk about a large scale project she is constructing for Burning Man. I can’t talk too much about it as the grant proposal is still being put together and we want to keep it under wraps until that is all settled. But it would be part sculpture, part architectural lighting and part environment/experience design. If we get the necessary funding, I think this could be an amazing project to work on and see realized.
It is a curious thing that it feels almost as soon as I made the decision to become more discriminating in the works I do, the projects I get offered become more interesting. The power of intentionality is an amazing thing.
I have organized a weekly meditation group with some friends of mine. It is a wonderful experience to have a small group of fellow sitters to be with on a regular basis. Very strengthening to my own practice as well as deepening connections with friends.
Finding a balance between the spiritual and the secular in life is an important thing. I think this is one of the things that I find so compelling about Burning Man. It rides that duality at its very core essence. In many ways that is explicitly what the project with Kate is about. Creating a space that serves as a channel between the daily life and the divine.
Too often I find I, like most people, get caught up in the day to day of this and that. We become so bogged down with the mundane details that the larger truly important things get swept away. Finding ways to remind ourselves of the big picture is something I feel is necessary to maintaining sanity and an overall healthy inner life. Any number of things can do this for different people. For me it tends to be art and meditation.
Tags: barter theatre, burning man, projects
