We pay for hardback editions of thoughtful, exquisitely written meditations on something or other, which took years to write.
De Waal's works call up Malevich's colours, and also a meditation on the appearance of something from nothing, though they are still and self-contained, not needing the fizzing of Malevich's persistent theorising.
And all this is heightened by an extended funereal instrumental coda which acts as one big question mark, leaving us with the feeling that this is not just a meditation on the quotidian but something greater, existential even.
I used to enjoy going to museums very much because it was a place where … I'm not sure I would use the word meditation, because when I am focused on something I am actually quite tense.
Murtis were envisioned and created, by our rishis (ancient ones) in deep meditation, to help humans focus their minds on something tangible.
Focus instead on something outside you like the flower meditation or the vehicle sounds meditation.
As the final credits roll, it becomes a wonderful, coherent whole: a meditation on how this is still something to "come to terms with".
But as Alec Baldwin pointed out not long ago on HuffPo, this brilliant, brooding, and terrifying meditation on senseless violence definitely has something to do with the country's current war fatigue.
In "If You See Something Say Something," he framed a meditation on homeland security with an account of his visit to Trinity, the testing site of the Manhattan Project.
This horrific set piece, and the grim scenes that follow, promise something powerful: a meditation on the stop-and-start nature of surgical innovation, one grounded in the economic and racial fractures of the era.
