Erica Mahinay

Make yourself comfortable

Move around as much as you want until you feel settled

Becoming aware of the main points of contact

with the surface which supports your body

Feel the earth below

Bring awareness to the soles of your feet.

Aware of the toes

Sometimes it’s not easy to be aware of all the toes

You may find that there are points

where you don't feel very much at all.

…continue

up beyond your feet.

Standing up if appropriate.

Pelvic girdle

to the sacrum

to the upper back

the shoulder blades

Ever expanding West

Find a point on the horizon.

Relax your eyes; Let your periphery come into focus.

Not straining to see with the mind’s eye, maintain or repeat

Space doesn’t, because it isn’t.

Notice the repetition of your ribs

expanding and contracting

wave-like motion

Notice any thoughts

any judgements

any reaction in your body

A shrub of spreading habit

Seeds of spreading habits

Decorating the mind.

Bring awareness to the face, the whole face

Allow the tongue to be soft in the mouth,

checking that you are not clenching the teeth.

If we feel any tension, tightness, holding,

we can form an intention of letting go

Flowing in and the flowing out

Turn your attention to your navel.

Gaaaazzzze.

You may feel a sensation

of light

of sound

of temperature

Perhaps a slight sense of pressure spreading

(I Feel)

Uncertain borderland

(I see, I hear)

We are hallucinating all the time.

(I think)

Delusions

Pause at the heart

Thousands of little witnesses

Test Sites.

Visions from the personal growth laboratory.

Detach

Softening as best we can.

- Erica Mahinay

Erica Mahinay (b. 1986, Santa Fe, NM) lives in Los Angeles. This is her second solo exhibition at Lyles & King. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Contingent at T293, Rome and Sun Seekers at Euclid, Santa Monica, CA. Previous exhibitions also include Touch Knows You Before Language at Lyles & King, New York; Thin Skins, Infinity Pools and Sand Slumps at Fused Space/Jessica Silverman, San Francisco (solo); Dead Eden at Lyles & King, New York; Miranda at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; and The Go Between: A Selection of Emerging International Artists from the Ernesto Esposito Collection at Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples. Mahinay is represented by Lyles & King, New York and T293, Rome.