Make Conscious x NYC Design Week 2023

Phenomenal Design invites you to engage all levels of consciousness to more fully engage with your mind, body, and world. From May 18-23 you are invited to participate in Phenomenal Design processes, conversations, and activations during NYC design week. Catch up with Make Conscious around town @ The Met, The Park, The River, and MORE!

May 18-21 + May 28th
Phenomenal Museum: The MET

Phenomenal Museum is a container to reimagine the frame of the museum through conscious place knowing. Museum comes from the Greek Mousein, which means to sit with the muse.  The weight of the museum as an institution today feels very far from the simplicity of that original intention. The dislocation of place post-Covid presents an opportunity to reset how we connect to place and reconnect to the original spirit of the museum. We have a unique opportunity now to reinvent how the museum exists in our minds, our cities, and our culture. The process starts by acknowledging the museum as a steward of the land and the collections that they hold. Join Make Conscious for a phenomenal activation of the one and only Metropolitan Museum of Art, and experience what you thought you knew through a whole new lens.

Phenomenal Museum
$60.00

  • May 18: The Muse, The Land, The MET

    2-4pm
    with E, PO and JX

    • SETTING THE CONTAINER FOR THE WORK

    • CONNECTING TO THE GENIUS LOCI OF THE MET

    • CONNECTING TO THE GENIUS LOCI OF CENTRAL PARK

    Meet up details emailed upon registration!

    Limited to 20 people
    Ticket price includes Museum admission, private tour, and phenomenal museum activation kit!

  • May 20: The Temple, The River, The Papyrus

    10-12pm
    with JX

    • CONNECTING TO THE GENIUS LOCI OF EGYPT
      + THE TEMPLE OF DENDUR

    • GEOMETRY + THE RIVER

    • THE STORY OF PAPYRUS

    Meet up details emailed upon registration!
    Limited to 20 people
    Ticket price includes Museum admission, private tour, and phenomenal museum activation kit!

  • May 21: The Dragon, The Buddha, The Lotus

    10am -12pm
    with JX

    • CONNECTING TO THE SACRED MOUNTAINS OF ASIA

    • THE STORY OF THE LOTUS

    • DECODING THE DRAGON

    Meet up details emailed upon registration!
    Limited to 20 people
    Ticket price includes Museum admission, private tour, and phenomenal museum activation kit!

A Peek at the Phenomenal Process

Let your gaze settle on the image,

Slowing your relationship to your perception of it

Along with your gaze, feel your body settle, and your breath settle

Feel all three arriving simultaneously

Become like Earth

Allow your eyes to embody the quality of earth, and let the quality of earth to inform your gaze. As you do this, realize that your gaze is an expression of your body.

 

Allow your gaze to become like the quality of earth

Let it be grounded, stable, slow, rooted, and rhythmic

 

Feel this quality of earth arising in both your body and your gaze 

Like you are earth, all the qualities of earth

And look upon this painting like you’re walking on the earth

Slowly moving through it, step by step..

read full transcript of The Gaze