Thinking Chair

There was a small rock outcropping on a favorite trail in the woods near my old studio in Massachusetts. I often found myself deep in thought, walking in slow circles around the edge of this grand stone mound.  For me it was a walking meditation, where each cycle found me back in the same physical place, but in a slightly different emotional place. One day I came across a small loose rock with a nice flat face... and the idea for 'Thinking Chair', a self-portrait of this walking/meditation, came into being.  As it turns out, circular walking meditations have been practiced for a very long time!  Many years ago I had the opportunity to visit Borobudur, the Mahayana Buddhist Temple in Indonesia which was designed for this purpose!

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This piece is currently on exhibit at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA