by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 26, 2016
In the Quest for Light, Being Beauty and the Carrying of Story Reach in and ponder. Wander. And gather up what might be otherwise undiscovered. I recall a couple of years back, in the mountains of the Himalaya, visiting a remote monastery, I met a tertön. Treasure...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 26, 2016
THE ALLEGORY OF LIGHT — AND THE SHINING WITHIN —- Aren’t we all looking for light, looking into the light? Seems that way. I look in the light and I look into the dark. I live in both of those presences. That which illuminates, and that which darkens — for they are...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jul 23, 2015
The Quest for Knowing In a manner, we’re all trying to know more. And you are what you know. You shall be what you shall be, as you make your way. When it comes to the pathway of design, we forget about human-ness, the conditions of our sensuality. Finding the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 8, 2015
Spelunking Brands There is a patterning that one can see in caves, the geolocational strata, stones, layers, sediments, ice, water, rivers and concretions — as an explorer of caves, it’s kind of like mountaineering inside mountains — interior alpinism, as in the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 28, 2015
A Person, a Presence, a Brand I was working outside of the city, treasure-hunting. Actually, I was working inside a brand, their teams, looking for treasure — those glimmering and glistening points of compassed reference, the surveilled pin-pricks of a brand mapping,...