On noticing what is already here This short Zen story has stayed with me for many years. I return to it often, not as a lesson to be explained, but as a reminder. It speaks about proximity, about how what surrounds us most completely can also be the hardest to perceive. In my artistic practice, this story resonates deeply. Much of my work grows from a similar question: how to make visible what is already present, yet rarely noticed. Not by pointing or instructing, but by crea