"We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, Birmingham, Ala.
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I will miss the pictures very much.
If the girl catching fireflies is the same girl as is caught in the spider web, perhaps their order should be reversed? I would find that more karmic and more story-like.
That's interesting, but not what I was actualy going for. The pictures were all meant to represent, in one way or the other, Dr. King's idea of an inescapable network of mutuality. The two pictures on top might literally be dewdrops on spider webs, but it clearly shows how every drop would be affected by the motion of or to any other drop. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
The picture below the text represents the same thing, but at the molecular level. Or something. I wasn't sure about posting it, but then, I have a lot of pictures to get rid of before the expiration date on my blog comes due ("Retiring," indeed).
The two pictures on the bottom with the girl look to me like Indira's net of jewels. In Hindu mythology, Indira's web of jewels was an infinite net with multi-faceted jewels at every intersection, each one so reflective that it reflects every other jewel across the entire infinite net. A nice precursor to Dr. King's inescapable network of mutuality. I didn't see the girl as "caught" in the web so much as relaxing, even luxuriating, in this precious net of jewels.
The last picture represents delusion. I don't see the lights as fireflies, but as the jewels in the net, and she's trying to capture each one and separate it from the whole. But in so doing, they would lose their reflections and be dull, useless and of no value or interest. Similarly, when we try to isolate any dharmas from the infinite and inescapable network of mutuality, we deprive them of context, and our diamonds turn to coal. Flowers to weeds.
Or something. They're just pictures, and we all project our own ideas into what we see.
Just like in life.
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