Honesty Of Material

I had some photos taken in 2012. And, as is often the case, my favourites are the photos of in-between moments - meaning the asana isn’t perfect or final. I speak to my students about what I call “honesty of material.” Maybe what we see from the outside is a shape, a body making a shape. I’ve made decades of shapes and (let’s be honest) the main material I deal with is thought. Also emotion. Memory. Longing. There is a physical side to this. Of course there is. But the physicality is so inextricably linked to subtler material. And, ultimately, to such deep, deep, deep spaciousness beyond it all.