September 28, 2017 | Lifestyle.INQ

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Day: September 28, 2017

Sai Villafuerte and capturing beauty in the mundane and ordinary

“In a world of incessantly proliferating images, the idea that a moment can go unrecorded seems unfathomable,” photographer Sai Villafuerte writes in her photo essay’s introduction. “My images hope to challenge this, evoking a sense that time and space have been left suspended. There is a certain beauty that is captured during moments of silence and contemplation, such as in the act of holding one’s breath. It is kind of mindfulness is sacred where if ‘the breath is irregular, the mind is unsteady’ as quoted in the fifteenth-century Sanskrit text Hatha Yoga Pradipika, ‘But when the breath is still, so is the mind and [one] obtains the power of stillness.’”

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