• Glimpses of Eternity (2019-)
    • The Poetics of Being (2020-)
    • Lenticular Photography (2021-)
    • Instant Eternities (2022-)
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Anna Thorne — ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

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    • Glimpses of Eternity (2019-)
    • The Poetics of Being (2020-)
    • Lenticular Photography (2021-)
    • Instant Eternities (2022-)
    • 2022
    • 2021 - The Return to Earth (New York City)
    • 2019-20
    • 2018
    • 2015-17
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May 15, 2026
Is This The Way of Life?
May 15, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Monotone Malaise
May 7, 2026
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May 2, 2026
The World Will Try to Take Away..
May 2, 2026
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April 26, 2026
Is This Religion?
April 26, 2026
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March 31, 2026
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March 30, 2026
Watch Water Carve Rocks
March 30, 2026
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March 10, 2026
Dry Eyes
March 10, 2026
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March 6, 2026
Stillness in an unstill place
March 6, 2026
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January 25, 2026
A New Path Has Appeared
January 25, 2026
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January 21, 2026
A Return to Eternal Respite
January 21, 2026
January 21, 2026

Resources on Being and Creativity:

Inspiring Quotes by Photographers

On Being (radio show, podcast)

Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag (essay) 

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Wilke

Daybreak by Nietzsche (book excerpt)

John Cage on Sound, Silence and Meaning (video)

Meister Eckhart on The Indivisible Light Within (book excerpt)

The Shaman and the Artist by Terence McKenna (audio)

I = Awareness by Arthur J. Deikman (article)

An Archive on Consciousness (among other things)

Eternity Passes into Time Through the Portal I Am by Rupert Spira (video clip)

The Complete Mystical Works of Mesiter Eckhart by Maurice O’C Walshe (book)

The Loss of Creature by Walker Percy (essay)

The Essays of Rupert Spira

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” - Albert Einstein, Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931)

Be Here Now by Ram Dass (book)

“…what is done in love is well done.” - Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Theo

The Art of Listening, Seeing and Learning by J. Krishnamurti (video)

The Moment by Marie Howe (poem)

The Tao that can be told of is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things. - Tao-te Ching by Lao Tzu

Miscellaneous Inspiration (quotes)

“At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.” - Arthur J. Deikman

Bill Moyer interviews Mythologist Joseph Campbell - ‘The Hero’s Adventure’ (transcript)

Culture and the Individual by Aldous Huxley (article)

The Midnight Gospel (Netflix)

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (book)

Alan Watts: Don’t Think Too Much (audio)

The Importance of Getting Out of Your Own Way (JRE Clip with Robert Downey Jr.)

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (book)

Is This The Way of Life?

May 15, 2026

It’s sunny, and all I wish is to
Frolic in fields, yet I sit
Under florescent lights dressed
In black. Is this the way of life?

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