Twelve Years of Christmas Day Walks
in Downtown Toronto by Michael Wood
Introduction by Julie DuBose
For 12 years beginning in 2006, Michael Wood sent out a letter to his Miksang students talking about his visual adventures walking through a deserted Toronto downtown on Christmas day. He would include a gallery of images of what he saw on his walk. For us it always meant an opportunity to see what Michael sees when he is wide open in a strange land. No color, texture, no assignments, nothing we had ever seen before or thought we would photograph before. It was always freeing for us to be shown that truly the final stage of Miksang practice is no practice at all, just shooting what meets our untethered mind. In the situation of the Christmas Day Walk what meets an open, receptive mind is outside the boundaries of what we could ever strategize or imagine we would see.
After years of students’ requests for Michael to put this book together, here it is. We hope you enjoy this testament to the deep pleasure of spontaneously meeting chaos in the visual world.
Julie DuBose
PDF Book. 108 Pages
Cost: $25.00 USD
