Experimental writer Crystal Gandrud and I began, on what was the cusp of the pandemic, in early 2020 in NYC to discuss the Lojong Slogans. These discussions have just become....

RADIATING OUTWARD, INCREMENTALLY: A Manual, The Owl Circus. 

It is an irreverant commentary on the Lojong Slogans of Atișa—which means it’s a rumination on art and dreams and bodies and sex and transmutation and alchemy and fears, desires, numbness. All things.

Gandrud & Clarke set about investigating (and sometimes torturing) the nexus of art and philosophical truth, particularly of the Buddhist variety, in this most mysterious and also basic Buddhist teaching. They attempted to pull the 59 Slogans out of the mire of intellectualism and “interpretation/explaining” into the realm of life and space, also known as the feminine. Also known as art.