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Seek the Deep Within

from Sketches and Demos by Douglas Hamilton

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The unexpected way to regard a seashell is from the inside out. 

You’re at the very center, in the tiniest, darkest space.

You can only go in one direction. And as you move outwards, the tightness begins to ease. Relief! You still feel the hard, smooth walls close against you, but diverging, telling you which direction to go. 

Moving farther, feeling freer, you begin to notice an easing of the profound darkness of the center.

Spiraling outwards, levelling up to more expansive levels, until you emerge and finally see the whole...an organic, fibernachi shape.

You hold it in your hand, marvelling at where you’ve been.

Disbelieving it.

How could you have been so deep inside. So small, so confined? But confined by beauty, strength, essence of the life-giving sea.

A seashell out of water. Mysteriously retaining its entire essence.


Deep within
Deep within
So dark

Seek the space
Seek the light
Moving outwards

Cramped, confining
Here inside a seashell
Seek the deep within

Level up
Level up
It’s lighter

Spiral out
Spiral out
It’s freer

Light and air
Feel the breath of ocean…you’re outside
Regard the deep within

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from Sketches and Demos, released March 21, 2012
Words, music and performance by Douglas Hamilton

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Douglas Hamilton Bristol, UK

Doug Hamilton puts his finger on what's terrifyingly funny about modern life and just keeps probing. In other hands, this could be dire, but Doug has a special way of making you laugh AND making you think. Doug grew up in America, came of age in Scotland, and has been bouncing between the US and the UK ever since. He never saw an instrument he didn't want to play. ... more

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