The SUSHUMNA Series
The Sushumna Nadi is theorized by yogis to be the central channel in the human body through which prana, the subtle life energy, flows. Comprehensible only through imaginative inquiry, the Sushumna retracts in the face of certainty. It asks us to linger in that zone between what the senses proclaim as real and our inward not-knowing, reveling for a moment in the light that comes forward to meet the light.
The Sushumna Series explores that point where the beauty of the world, hidden in plain sight within every form, becomes momentarily and clearly discernible. T.S. Eliot refers to it as “the still point of the turning world.”
That still point speaks to me in color.
In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Baby Suggs knows she’s dying. She asks her daughter Sethe to bring swatches of color to her bedside: “Bring a little lavender in, if you got any. Pink, if you don’t.”
She wants to apprehend the adumbrations of the world before she vanishes into it.
I get that.
Barrytown, July 25, 2021