The Slender Thread

10/17/2016

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In Focus | Self Discovery through Photography and Art | © David Ulrich Why is art necessary? Apart from the obvious social, political, and historical functions of art, how does it serve the maker? What benefits are available from the practice of making something? Now, please remember, all of you are...

07/03/2016

What makes Hawai‘i such a compelling and sought-out location for photographers and filmmakers? Hawai‘i has an illustrious history of providing the subject matter for many diverse and important bodies of work.

05/03/2015

“True unity in the individual and between man and nature, as well as between man and man, can arise only in a form of action that does not attempt to fragment the whole of reality.” —David Bohm

Paradise / Paradox Posted on May 2, 2015 by David Ulrich / Laura Dunn Crossroads of Heaven and Earth on Mauna Kea Mauna Kea #1 © David Ulrich Among the many roles that artists can play is to bring perspective, create an enlarged viewpoint, and to offer their wisdom through carefully crafted objects…

02/23/2015

David Ulrich, a consulting editor for Parabola Magazine considers the life and work of photographer, Minor White:

"In many images, White employed metaphoric abstraction to reflect interior realities. Photographing things for "what else they are" beyond surface appearances, his photographs are testaments to his own search for wholeness and point towards personal, revelatory truth."

From the current issue of “Parabola Magazine,” Volume 40, No. 1 (Spring 2015).

To read the entire article, pick up a copy of the spring issue here: http://bit.ly/1EoKEtP

Photography Credit: Minor White, "Windowsill Daydreaming," Rochester, New York , 1958. For more of his extraordinary work, visit Art Blart: http://bit.ly/1EoKEtQ

12/22/2014

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What (and Who) is Art For? Posted on December 22, 2014 by David Ulrich / Laura Dunn An American VisionThe arts reflect the soul of a people; they express the spirit of an age. If this is true, and historically all evidence affirms this, then what can we deduce from this graphic? The diagram shows th…

10/09/2014

‘Kahoolawe Is For All Of Us’ Can a new photography exhibit keep us from forgetting Maui County’s most inaccessible island? For most of us in Maui County,

10/05/2014

Featuring photographs by three of Hawaii's most acclaimed photographers, Wayne Levin, Franco Salmoiraghi, David Ulrich, and archaeologist/writer Rowland Reeve, this historic exhibition will showcase selections from the Bishop Museum's Kaho`olawe: Rebirth of a Sacred Hawaiian Island (1996, Honolulu, HI), and Smithsonian Institution's Ke Aloha Kupa`a I Ka `Aina -- Steadfast Love for the Land (2002, Washington, D.C.) collections.

This Kaho`olawe Exhibition is free of charge between October 10 - November 3 at the Bailey House Museum, Exhibition Hall, Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. KIRC program specialists in Hawaiian culture, restoration, ocean resources, unexploded ordinance, and Kaho`olawe history can be available by appointment for school visits, talk story sessions, or other educational and outreach requests. For more information, call the Bailey House Museum at 244-3326 or KIRC, Kelly McHugh at 243-5020.

09/14/2014

Finding our way home

07/20/2014

Spiritual Practice for a New Generation: Part TwoPosted on July 20, 2014 by David Ulrich / Laura DunnThe Path of the RoninRoninWe can look to the teachings themselves as a means of shedding light on our exploration of spiritual practice for a new generation. Certain standards or measures exist to in…

06/08/2014

Awakening Sight

"Moments of real seeing are beyond the labeling propensity of the mind, beyond what we think we know. Seeing is a step into the unknown and requires some degree of intention and awakening. Real seeing — of ourselves, of others, and of the world — contains three defining characteristics: simultaneity, a direct perception in the present moment; objectivity, seeing things as they are, as best we can; and impartiality, freedom from judgment. For most of us, governed by our subjective attitudes and cherished opinions, such moments of direct perception are rare and depend entirely on our inner state of mind, feeling, and body. But they are possible. Most of us have experienced moments of inner accord in which, by chance or intentional effort, we are open, sensitive, and wholly present. The first step on the Buddhist Eightfold Path is “right seeing,” which serves as a fitting foundation for our journey. In my mind, “right seeing” implies not only a positive, life-affirming attitude, but also a genuine effort toward direct, conscious perception."

—David Ulrich. Adapted, with permission, from "The Widening Stream: The Seven Stages of Creativity." (Beyond Words Publishing, 2002) http://bit.ly/1pozgVp

What are your moments of truest seeing?

Photo credit: "Lower Calf Creek Falls, Utah, 1974." Featured in "Awakening Sight," Parabola Magazine. http://bit.ly/1pozgVp

05/18/2014

"An ever-present invitation to ever-greater openness: Education and the Cultivation of Wisdom"

Education and the Cultivation of Wisdom

10/18/2013

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (January 13, 1866 – October 29, 1949) was an influential spiritual teacher of the early to mid-20th century who taught that most humans live their lives in a state of hypnotic “waking sleep”, but that it is possible to transcend to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential. Gurdjieff developed a method for doing so, calling his discipline “The Work” (connoting “work on oneself”) or “the Method”.

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (January 13, 1866 – October 29, 1949) was an influential spiritual teacher of the early to mid-20th century who taught that most humans live their lives in a state of hypnotic “waking sleep”, but that it is possible to transcend to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential. Gurdjieff developed a method for doing so, calling his discipline “The Work” (connoting “work on oneself”) or “the Method”.

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