The whole idea behind tech-free sabbath is to bring something to the experience that is part of my own cultivation of spiritual practice. Rather than merely “giving up” my computer for the day. Over the three previous weeks that sense of direction has been lacking. This week I gave the day a bit more focus – I’m re-claiming my artistic expression – in the context of faith of course (grin). Over the past two or three years – largely due to Das Elefant (my PhD thesis) I’ve not given much space for drawing, painting, and more important to me – iconography. I’ve only produced a few small pieces in the past few years, my brushes and paints, my many icon books have been gathering dust in their various repositories, neglected and unloved. That all began to change yesterday.

I would like to think of tech free sabbath as something that offers me something for the rest of the week. What I did then was to sit and prepare some sketching surfaces – to refresh my memory of things like sacred geometry. Now ready to recieve drawings I’m hoping that by next Sunday I’ll have produced some sketches and will be ready for the next step (to be determined next week).