Living With Deep Empathy: Become the Current or Sink

A Laura Triplett Studios Series

February 25, 2025

Laura Triplett

Occupy Everything

Taking a pause. A moment to bask under the poppy green trees. Revealing their depth as they stay overarching my gaze onto the navy sky. Clouds filing in. The main attractor to this spot were the water fountains bubbling through gravel openings. Drops began falling from the sky concealed by smokey clouds. All felt calm and well. A turn in thought, to be more incentivized by the grace of peace. Relief surrounded me instantly. I felt as if the boundary between my body and space melted into one seamless being.

Much of how we live our lives in junction with the built environment... Has become quite linear. This linear perspective - traps and controls the viewer, ASSUMES the viewer is linear and controlled. Which is not the case. Multiple perspectives aesthetically arranged gives the viewer options. In options, comes freedom. Freedom to choose and dance in that space of moment of time and space.

Progress Beyond the Double Bind

In order to create art that truly exists existentially, one must tap into the unconscious source for creative solutions. Making without this connection is merely creating something physical, trapped in a duality of form and informal. Looking towards creating something that walks the tightrope of informal yet existing as a physical manifestation.

This haze. This bind. This cycle. I have nothing to say yet all to mention. As it is worth the world to mention. What is it you seek if you have found that nothing is hidden? Why contemplate if you know? Why catch it when it can't be caught? What is your gain in catching it? The double bind of life. The "problem" to be solved that never existed anyway. The didactic opposition of progress. What are we progressing? Do our methods match our incentives? How do we not exploit and destroy what we know we want? What do we solve, when there's nothing to be solved and yet everything to benefit?

What if we all physically manifest what we know to be true? This is our all-time question. What if instead, we knew what to be true and manifest it in each moment? What then structures our drive and environment, while maintaining hierarchies and freedom? Through passion, that is what we are doing. Isn't this why we're here?

Until next time and with love,

Laura Triplett