Photography as Spiritual Practice

Written By Zoë Dearborn

Taking photographs can sometimes be a way to transcend judgment of certain experiences or sights. Judgment (whether it’s good or bad) about the objects and people around us can create a barrier to pure experience. By photographing something close up, the image becomes more about form than content. It helps me to find the beauty in something that might otherwise disgust me. Included here are photos from the last few days of domesticity.

Mixing blue food coloring into yellow play dough 

Mixing blue food coloring into yellow play dough

 

Cleaning the burners on the stove 

Cleaning the burners on the stove

 

Bubbled over oatmeal on the stove 

Bubbled over oatmeal on the stove

 

Dead spiders and moths and compostables in the sink

Dead spiders and moths and compostables in the sink

Wanting a shot of tequila, discovering a cockroach in my cup 

Wanting a shot of tequila, discovering a cockroach in my cup

 




Zoë Dearborn

Zoë Dearborn is here to inspire humans to fulfill our deepest potential and highest purpose through her philosophy that combines spirituality, psychology, the arts & education, using her original songs, classes, essays, videos, dance, events, poems, talks & stories. She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology & Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies and a BA in Studio Art and East Asian Studies from Oberlin College. She spent her first thirty years in Brooklyn, and now lives off the grid, in the desert, with her husband and seven year old son in Southern Baja, Mexico.

http://www.zoedearborn.net/
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