Open space or the sky invokes feelings of transcendence to the spirit world. A visceral reaction to open space is not only a visceral reaction but they are feelings of calm expansive transcendence. We wade into it at every moment. I am in the conscious realm looking upon the sublime, the unconscious void, with a marginal comprehension of the unseen. I feel the unseen, yet the full conscious meaning of the unseen eludes me. I see better with juxtapositioning reality with the sublime, the horizon or the vast. Open space touches me deeply within as I live and experience the conscious reality around me. I am on the margin of understanding. As a child, I was always the outsider - the American-born only child of Japanese expatriate parents living first on the East Coast then then on the West Coast. I always felt that I never quite fit in – never acclimated with the customs and social rituals around me. This gave me the view of an outsider of someone on the outside feeling left out. I can see and feel both the void and the reality living as one. The sublime is here amongst us. It has a bittersweet feeling for me.
