22/03/2009

looking & seeing

Powerlines in Thailand & Laos are everywhere.
After a few weeks, I realised I was excising them from the view.
We edit so much of what we feel, see, hear etc, don't we ?

Most Lao wats use repeating patterns from similar templates, &
I saw several of these inventive hangings fashioned from money.
Lots of funny looking dogs, not always friendly.
How to look without our usual assumptions?
Maybe that's a big reason why travel is so appealing ~ there is
a sensory overload, we have to be right here, right now ~
where in truth we always are.

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