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Meditation #20

Its soft grass thats padding under my ass and there's a real ice cold chill in the air. The wind is whipping around and my legs hang over the edge without my feet touching the ground. I'm on a cliff side in the middle of June.

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Meditation #19

(photo credit: Axel Carrington)

A sinking-ly soft old couch that separates your body into three segments like an insect. All I can feel is my head, my thorax and my abdomen. And a gap in the door where I let the cat out before I started, lets a breeze in.

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Meditation #18

An instant reaction whenever you sit on a toilet is, to actually go to the toilet. I guess it can be likened to the types of tears we have; basal, reflex and emotional. Although I wouldn't call it 'a need for constant lubrication' or that an emotional connection is required when going to the toilet. But it would fall more under the reflex category, a trigger. So initially when you sit, you go and then you meditate. And during that you go again and again. Then more time passes and then again. Not because you need to but because of the reflex and the nature of the environment. It was equally as disruptive as the fly that was constantly bumping along the mirror to get a better look at its reflection. 

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Meditation #17

The heat from the sun immediately warms my eyelids, my hair and the top half of my body. The underside is cooled from the course cement. Theres a subtle wind that flows around the barriers of the car park and when it reaches me it tousles up my fringe then leaves. But I know it'll be back in a few moments to do the same again. The city has an immense sound of heavy metal meeting concrete which can be heard in every direction. I can't see it but it feels like I'm sitting right on top of it. The sun begins to burn my eyelids now and when I do eventually open them, everything is a hazy blue. I get up to go and continue my day and as I am walking away, the scent of a sausage sizzle wafts on the breeze. Soon after that smell is met with the harsh tang of human piss, as I enter through the elevator doors and go down to meet the ground.

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Meditation #16

(photo credit: Axel Carrington)

Midnight winter ice-breath

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Meditation #15

(photo credit: Axel Carrington)

Cold pavers in-between showers and checking the mail.

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Meditation #14

(photo credit: Cindy Bateup)

Spent a couple of days on my parents property out in rural Goomalling. The overgrown garden is primarily green but dormant during the winter months however the hibiscus flowers are persistent when blossoming.

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Meditation #13

I was listening to a Rabbit Island song and heard the rain coming through my head phones. When I looked outside of my window I saw the sun shower… so I ran out into the suburbs to be with the renaissance clouds.

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Meditation #12

Painting all day with the cat and the backyard.

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Meditation #11

(photo credit: Axel Carrington)

The great UNO battle at Poons Head Studio! Whilst Rag n Bone are in the next room mixing I'm getting my ten minutes….

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Meditation #10

(photo credit: Justin Griffiths)

Its night time in the suburbs and its private and cool (as in cold). A neighbouring car alarm is erupting in the distance and my housemate has just arrived home.

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Meditation #9

Everyone has gone to bed. However if anyone does get up to make a snack my hands are in a position to hold a plate...

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Meditation #8

(photo credit: Lena Ureses)

Spent a wet Perth day with a good German friend looking through galleries  filled with art and ancient taxidermy animals. I was fantasizing about mediating next to the bison, so I made it a reality!

*Note- the skeletal display of the dog at the WA Museum has a bone where the penis would of been! Apparently many animals do have this such as the walrus however I haven't determined whether or not the common dog should have it or whether someone at the museum is making the best dick joke ever...

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Meditation #7

Its was a quiet Autumn afternoon and so it was agreed, that Axel would try meditating for the first time. I told him that it was less about relaxing and more about concentrating, on yourself and what your body feels and breathes like. I'm pretty sure at one point, we were both concentrating on this big fly that was buzzing over our bodies, hoping that it wouldn't land on us...

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Meditation #6

(photo credit: Axel Carrington)

High fevers, used tissues and only breathing from the mouth. I meditated in bed today, some could say I have mediated unconsciously for at least 4 hours...

*Taffy the cat kept companionship at high levels today. Also she snores!

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Meditation #5

Chairs… I'm not going to recommend it. Moccasins… recommended!

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Meditation #4

(photo credit: Axel Carrington)

Inspired by the 'Yardstock' festival the previous day, I chose to meditate in my own backyard! If this was a wider camera shot you would of been able to see the mounds of dog shite that was only about two feet from my head! I had to mediate out from the smell...

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