impermanence
According to Buddhist teaching, the reality of impermanence (anitya, or anicca in Pali) is one of the three conditions that characterize all of life. It is an inescapable truth. Nothing lasts. Nothing stays the same. And so we exist.
The following is a photographic reflection on the presence of impermanence: neglected and forgotten 150 year old gravestones; abandoned houses with doorways leading into the sky; dilapidated buildings imprinted against the history and the horizon of the cityscape; and crumbling foundations with hidden stories of struggle and exile. The photographic image re-presences this impermanence, thus confirming its death as an event of the past within the borderlines of the present. Sometimes surreal. At other times stark. But at all times profoundly real. This is impermanence.
In the words of Pema Chodron: "We will all die one day and that day will be a today."
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
35mm film, Minolta SRT 101
