“The reaching wildness of a neglected reality has survived the unending threat of “improvement” to unfurl its inherent inspiration upon those who may wager a closer look.”

-Julian Vadas

 
 
 
Loosely lucid reflections from three-weeks in the Pasayten Wilderness in the North Cascades of Washington State by Julian Vadas
 
 
All Photographs by Julian Vadas
 
 
Artist Julian Vadas follows a lifestyle that pursues the experiential intelligence of consciousness beyond personal identity. Art, yoga, music, travel, and wilderness immersion are his preferred approaches to explore and engage the possibilities of being human.
 
 

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The meekest suggestion of the immeasurable swiftly refutes the civilized circumstance devoid of the necessity to read the rhythms of the natural and respond with resilience and ingenuity…
 
 

 
An inane internal dialogue is abruptly extinguished in a moment of transcendent resonance with the most apparent simplicity—the wherewithal of unknown intrepid ancestors shall effortlessly coalesce into a response of the composure and understanding foreign to familiar self-efficacy…
 
 

 
Awkward existential unrest driving generations of septic consciousness and misinterpreted human faculty dissipates beyond recall in the emergence of the sure and immutable grace suggested by the shimmering daylight on the surface of a cold alpine lake…