Take a deep breath in, right down to the depths of your belly. And release an audible sigh. Then simply press play and allow your mind to empty…

I photographed this time lapse over the course of a lunar cycle, during an artist's residency in the foothills of the Himalaya (in Uttarakhand, India) in early 2014. Each of the 4,000 frames was shot manually while I spent dozens of blissful hours watching this stunning landscape change with every breath. It never needed to repeat itself. It was my intention to share the peace I felt within it by creating a meditation on this Enchanted Land of Gods. Knowing I wanted to be able to play it on a loop as day faded into night and back again, I couldn’t predetermine how to create the ending - and then a little help was offered from this landscape herself on day 5. Do watch until the end 💗 Everything is constantly changing, passing, transforming, and beginning again. The entire Universe born through a dot as they say in India - and all the light of day beginning in the darkest of skies with the dot of the morning star. With this visual meditation, breath in the peace of life as it dances with us.

Music: Written by Jagat Guru Adi Shankracharya, performed by Singers of the Art of Living, the chant is Atmastakam (Chant of Shiva). Lord Shiva is said to reside in the Himalayas, he has a remarkable presence in these mountains.