Brilliance of Now

This series is my response to the current environment of terror and fluctuations.

Change is taking place. I have the option of my response. I can do research and give money to projects I deem worthy. I can stop using plastics and stop eating beef and stop flying, stop driving. I can blame myself, I can panic.

I can go inside myself and create space. I can find a way to turn on the lights.

I look up to see small white clouds in a voluptuous blue sky. I notice joy as well as fear. I can feel the fire as well as the chill of change. I stretch into its new clothes, and I become more than I was.

The present moment is a sacred place. I explore my wild interior worlds and find a larger view. I add personal narratives to nature, creating spacious dialogues. I cross into an ephemeral dimension, still carrying the geometric frames of emotions and stories become translucent. I've found my way into deep space.

These are visual fairytales, holding more of life and earth together in a single frame.

© Valerie Y O Kim - 05_Seeing Through Seaweed
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05_Seeing Through Seaweed

© Valerie Y O Kim - 06_Learning to Cry
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06_Learning to Cry

© Valerie Y O Kim - 07_Swimming Through Ice
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07_Swimming Through Ice

© Valerie Y O Kim - 08_Through the Looking Glass
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08_Through the Looking Glass

© Valerie Y O Kim - 09_Balancing Blues
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09_Balancing Blues

© Valerie Y O Kim - 10_Call to Arms, Hawaii Island
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10_Call to Arms, Hawaii Island

© Valerie Y O Kim - 11_Sky Swimming
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11_Sky Swimming

© Valerie Y O Kim - 12_Traveling Inside the Quiet
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12_Traveling Inside the Quiet

© Valerie Y O Kim - 01_From Where Comes Joy
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01_From Where Comes Joy

© Valerie Y O Kim - 02_Baby Dreaming
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02_Baby Dreaming

© Valerie Y O Kim - 03_Listening To Whale Songs
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03_Listening To Whale Songs

© Valerie Y O Kim - 04_Stepping Into Sacred Chant
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04_Stepping Into Sacred Chant

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