Lighthouse

“I think we can relate to impermanence very viscerally. You don’t need much contemplative practice to start to notice how everything that we feel and think and experience, perceive and so on, is changing, is in motion. And the apparatus that we use to notice impermanence is also in motion, is also impermanent. And that everything we conceive of in our relationship to our insight of impermanence is also impermanent, is also changing.” 

 _{Michael Stone, I Had to Stop Reading, Best of Awake in the World, Podcast, 4th January, 2025.¹}

 Lighthouse is inspired by several different references; the rotating light of the Jandía lighthouse in Fuerteventura, the function of the gnomon in a sundial, and the history of navigational and optical instruments. The sculpture addresses the impermanence and challenges associated with perception and the difficulty of seeing without the distortions of attitude, conditioning and experience.