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Chögyam Trungpa: Dharma art (1996, Shambhala) 5 stars

Photographs are also boxlike. We have a square camera with a square perspective, and as we wind our film we see one square after another. That squareness seems to be our general frame of reference. But we don’t have to be too concerned with that squareness - we could dance with it. Let’s view that corner, this corner, this corner and that corner. Above we could allow lots of space; at the bottom we could allow a lot of solidity; on the sides we could play with how we view our world. If the world is pushing us to the left or the right, we could go along with that. As long as we don’t fight, there’s no problem. We could have the right invading our left; that’s okay, that’s a nice picture. If the left is invading our right, that also makes a nice picture.

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(Chögyam Trungpa, ‘New Sight’, Dharma Art, p49, Shambhala, 1996, 1-57062-136-5)