About Emotion, Devotion and Incantations

Pictures in “About emotion, devotion and incantations” portray encounters during my spiritual journey in the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East. We are looking for something and we all go around carrying this devotion, this feeling of enthusiasm or burden within. This series peeps into that hidden intensity, what we do not fully understand but we feel all the time. It is about the subtle but constant manifestation of awareness; getting somewhere, cleaning ourselves, blending with our surroundings, doing simple but profound things together. Devotion is about our praise to something considered sacred. And, in its subtle manifestations, is about the deep emotions and mystery life. To try and experience devotion is to discover how to carry the baggage that allows us to go through. People feel passion for the divine, and people also feel passion about the things that make every day life. How we look into strangers, how we care, how we make our lives about something. Life can be hard and because of this we are looking for a meaning. The world has portrayed this search for trust as a weakness. Believers, either in themselves, in god, or in the others, are regarded as failures. But we are all carrying a drive to trust and find peace within. “About emotion, devotion and incantations” shares this drive. These pictures are both mine and yours, and I took them following my own devotion, being within. I believe they can make us feel less lonely, as I have felt whilst taking them.