Google and Audrey and Image

May 4, 2014, when I logged on, I got this above image.  Instantly I knew who this was so went to imdb.com.  Sure enough, it was Audrey Hepburn's birthday.  That google would celebrate her, was not as surprising, as how quickly I knew just by looking at the profile-sketch that could be of a young woman from anywhere, who it was!!

Some images are imprinted in our minds.  May be that is why some religions question the image. And yet, image remains elusive.  If we did not have them, we will create them. May be that is what the rock paintings were.  Our ways to create images that would make sense out of this abstract emptiness.  May be that is what falling in love is about.  An image, that becomes synonymous with divinity for us. 

As much as I love images and see divine in idols in Indian temples, I also know that silence and meditation are increasingly important in our times.  

So, as much as I knew this was Audrey, I also looked at her, as if she was in contemplation, even meditation!! 

In this sense, this image itself became my meditation, and a way to send me to my chair for a few minutes of silence.  

Silence and imagery, with skill can be intertwined.