Being-with 'What is' Through Art

My Masters thesis Uncertainty, Nothingness, Beingness sought to bring awareness to the uncertain nature of life, and consider, both from a heuristic and theoretical perspective, the ramifications of realizing this truth within the context of a deterministic cultural perspective tied to the illusion of certainty and security. The thesis incorporated practical research into the quality and nature of beingness as a vehicle for describing a way to be with uncertainty through total attentiveness to the present moment, and the phenomenological 'what is' of its contents. Accompanying the written thesis was a production piece. For each of twenty consecutive days in July 2004, I created a work on paper—no one piece taking more than an hour, and all a direct expression of the present moment. Below are six examples from this series.

All images ©2004 Lisa Dale Miller
photography by James Dewrance
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