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Barbara Sternberg
EVERY DAY 1



The mystery in the everyday — the mystery that is the everyday.



I read a book called The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol. It was a period
when I was having a hard time getting out of bed. Afraid, I just
wanted to sleep. I realized then that the real heroes are you and I,
who get up and live each day, facing the uncertainties and struggles
of life, the paradoxes — living with the knowledge of death —
knowing that we can’t know.

Seeing with wonder — the awesome/awfulness of it all.



Reason’s last step is that there is something beyond it. Blaise Pascal
The more real a thing it is, the more mysterious it becomes. Jack Chambers



Filming the daily, what’s around. Observing the play of life, it’s
rhythm and patterns. Noticing the similarities in seeming differences.
Manyness and relatedness.

Earth, air, fire, water, light, engery.
Feel the wind.

Repetition is a principle in life — the sun rises every day.
Habit, ritual, identity.

Everything has its rhythms — the earth has its seasons and each of us
our internal rhythms: our pattern of speech, our gait, our breath.

We live life on several levels of consciousness simultaneously: as
individuals, alone; as part of a particular time, place, society; and
as part of a larger-than-we-are cosmic universe. Multiple realities.
The universal and the particular.













Is change the reality and permanence the illusion, or vice versa?

Images appear and disappear. Being and non-being, construction and
destruction, form and formlessness, light and dark.

Materiality of film, materiality of body — felt experience.

It was enough to exist, preferably still and silent, in order to feel its
mark … the mark of existence. Clarice Lispector

I find that raising my eyes slightly above what I am regarding so
that the thing is a little out of focus seems to bring the spiritual into
clearer vision… Emily Carr







I watched a National Film Board video on Margaret Laurence,
“First Lady of Manawaka” in which she talked about how hard it
is to start a novel. How she can’t start until tension makes it harder
not to start than to start. But once she’s into it, then the momentum
takes over. Hearing her, I said to myself, yes, that’s exactly right.
I can’t start sometimes — not ready yet — and I do almost anything
else to avoid the workroom — make calls, do dishes, laundry etc.
Until finally, I make a first step towards starting — I take the
sheet off the steenbeck, or I load the Bolex on the optical printer.
She also spoke of loneliness she is bound to experience…







Text and photographs:
Barbara Sternberg
www.barbarasternberg.com

Design:
Anne O’Callaghan

Production:
Shawn Samson

© Barbara Sternberg
All Rights Reserved
ISBN 978-0-9730708-1-1


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