A long time ago, without any thinking, I drew some pictures.
One picture = one inhale, one exhale, one old mascara wand on a 3” x 3” card, ~30 sec.
Leaf, flower, tree, forest, fall, wave.
Earth as substrate; fire, water, air moving through.
Then things picked up speed, and then some more. I simply spun the card around for the first two.
The elements vanished.
Both the breath and the wand finally stilled into a circle, the ensō.
A participant in a recent calligraphy class I took online:
What about breathing?1
Kazuaki Tanahashi, calligrapher and teacher:
Yes, breathing is a good idea.
Word 🤓
Images © Kanya Kanchana
#breath #image #calligraphy
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