SANCTUARY

Down we have traveled into the places where the outside world can’t reach.

The cave is a space that has not heard the noise of cities. It does not know social media, email, mobile phones or online communication of any kind. It is a space where deadlines do not apply, where day is night and night is day. Time is expansive in the cave.

In the cave we abide in a sanctuary. We float outside the rapids of life’s pleas for our fragmented attention, in a deep pool of stillness, darkness, solitude and quiet.

There are many sanctuaries to be found in nature. But it is to caves that humans have always come to find a sanctuary for re-envisioning. This is a place in which the underworld of our psyche comes forth, in which time slows and our thoughts with it, in which we dream new stories into existence.

 

IN SANCTUARY

David Villagomez performs in the Altar of Light

 

TAYOS CAVES, ECUADOR

A long-form composition by Jon Hopkins, inspired by his experience of the sanctuary of Tayos

THE SANCTUARY OF THE EVERYDAY

Why sanctuary is not a rejection of the world but a deep re-engagement with it

 

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