Look Look Look Look Look Again

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>His writing is fresh and accessible and so tender. As soon as I started reading it I immediately started thinking of friends I'd like to give it to. </span><strong>-</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Judith L. Lief editor of <em>The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A mad riot of interconnections: art Buddhism mandala principle spiritual pursuits growing up goth in the 90s the theories of Marshall McLuhan and a mongoose</em></strong><strong>-</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>to name but a few. </em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Meditation teacher filmmaker writer and art savant Kevin Townley turns his unique gaze upon 26 artists and magnifies the power and meaning of the five Buddhist wisdom energies through explorations of their work. Rather than trying to explain these energies he reveals them to you in familiar visual language while of course pushing the boundaries of what you might have thought you saw at first glance. Townley leads you to invites you in and sometimes springs upon you the perennial wisdom in the worlds of artists from Artemisia to Hilma af Klint to Marilyn Minter.  </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Beautifully written and hilariously disarming </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Look Look Look Look Look Again </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>vibrates with lucid insight into society history and establishment while teaching you a lot about meditation and Buddhism along the way. In exploring the practice life and work of these 26 artists (all of whom are women) through the lens of the five wisdom energies you come away with a deeper understanding of yourself the world and the true dharma that transcends culture and religion</span>-<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and a profound gratitude for anyone really willing to look. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Without a doubt Townley is the Fran Lebowitz of Buddhist writing. </span><strong>-</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>John Hodgman host of the <em>Judge John Hodgman Podcast</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kevin Townley demystifies that daunting link between art and spirituality while leaving room for the divine. By weaving artists' histories with his own he makes the reader feel comfortable drawing connections between heady concepts and personal experience. Through a unique blend of compassion and curiosity Kevin Townley has given readers a more intimate spiritually-minded </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ways of Seeing</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span><strong>-</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tavi Gevinson actor writer and founder of <em>Rookie</em></strong></p>