The inspiration for this little number was the idea that in using your own steam to travel and to think for yourself one became closer to 'sainthood', sainthood not just as a cleansing of the impurities that have hitherto encumbered selfhood, but also, in the spirit of the boddhisattva, of trying to show others the way. Here, I was taken by a photograph of Eddy Merckx and his colleagues sitting on the grass with an upturned bike behind them. The composition transformed the upturned wheels into halos, and the seated riders into saints. They were, after all, in the 'Zone', traversing the 'Pure Land'... in union with the white-gathered element...using their own steam to travel and travail, and find their way...
He whose reflective pure spirit sinks into Atman knows bliss inexpressible through words.
The Upanishads
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