The Drum Circle Was Always a Prayer

By Storm Lightbringer

Last month I wandered into a drum circle on Venice Beach and stayed until my hands ached. I thought I was only listening. Then I found this film on Nada Brahma, the Vedic teaching that the world is sound before it is anything else, and it named what my body already understood out there on the sand. Rhythm is not decoration. It is instruction. I have been painting to one long note ever since, and the studio sounds like a different room.