Part of my work as an artist is to look for the experience that gets me out of my daily habits of keeping order, my treads on the road, my nose to the grindstone, ad infinitum. These kinds of experiences are essential in meeting my goal of ongoing perceptual revelation that entails the ability to see everything in new and different ways.
To celebrate my seventieth birthday, I treated myself to the Zero Gravity experience, launching with a group of 18 other passengers from San Jose International Airport, May 12, 2012 in a Boeing 727 designed specifically to carry us to weightlessness and back. About 15 times (I lost count) we were weightless for 30 seconds before landing on the floor, as our 727 flew in a parabolic pattern. (Images by Steve Boxall, official Zero G photographer).
How will this help me to see everything differently? Although I’m sensing a kind of shift inside, I won’t know for a while. Time will tell.
