Typologies of Walking/Not

Filling in the Space 

   

  What is it that makes a person truly successful in life? The meaning of success is found through each persons individual values, dreams and the surrounding sociological culture of each person. Finding that answer is not cut and dry, however status quos hint at a societal standard for what success is 'suppose' to mean. In the United States, success is tied to the economics. Jobs, nice homes, cars and all the other expensive things. Money. The more money you have, the more you can get...and get away with. Even if you have enough money to take everything, you will never have enough. Without it, you might as well have nothing at all. Because success here is bound by America's capitalistic greed-what is love and fulfillment when you can buy it all anyway? Greed has acted as the economic foundation for so long that the whole country seems to have become taken with the over industrialized ways of life. A life made for roads and cars to get to and from work, a life made for fast food and lunch in a timely manner. Our communities are found in traffic jams. Our lives are filled with working tirelessly until eventual retirement or death. Our lives have no room for things such as stillness. Our spirits lost underneath the weight of the cracked cement of the unused sidewalks we pass by everyday. It's time to find our way back to soul. Remove the all consuming industrial mask. It's time to finally return. To finally fill in that empty place within each and every one of us once and for all. Through my exploration of the never ending greed within the American status quo of industrialized society, I reintroduce a lens to walk through life using the surrounding world around me within the small town of Hayward, Wisconsin and inspired by the traditional buddhist ideals of the Four Noble Truths, of stillness and of mindfulness to find and explore what true fulfillment really means. Fulfillment is something that already exists within the echoes of our hearts, not to be found-but to be made aware of. It is being in the here and now that provides the nutrients our souls yearn for. It is written well within the spaces that thrive with or without human interference. It is within these scenes in which you can find all which money can never buy. And it is here where souls collectively see each other, compassion is sparked and the spaces that once looked empty now seem to be full of life, survival, passion and spirit. What exactly is the space you are trying to fill?