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Cloth. 144 pp. 108 b&w photos. 7.5" x 6.5", plus 3 hour DVD.
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IMPERMANENCE: Embracing Change

by David Hodge and Hi-Jin Hodge, foreword by HH Dalai Lama

What does it mean that we are constantly changing? How do people confront ideas like death and change? Though impermanence is a central Buddhist concept, it’s also a universal concern. We all grow up, change, and eventually pass into another state. Impermanence: Embracing Change provides a range of voices, profound and heartwarming, that address these questions.

This well-designed book/DVD combination provides an immersion experience--intimate conversations with a over a hundred intelligent, interesting people about core issues that we so rarely get a chance to talk about. Based on New York Times-reviewed exhibit, Impermancence features fascinating observations by people ranging from philosophers to gardeners, economists to spiritual leaders, doctors to patients. The authors promised themselves that they would stop when the interviews started to duplicate each other—but that never happened. Even the shyest people could talk about the topic for a long time; even those who appeared far from contemplative had thought deeply about impermanence. The result was incredibly moving. The Hodges’ installation consisted of a large, circular arrangement of mounted iPods on which the interviews played simultaneously, each on its own screen. The San Jose Mercury News called the piece “one of the most popular works in the exhibition.”

Including both a book and a DVD so that the interviews can be viewed as they were seen in the original exhibit, Impermancence is more than a beautiful record of the exhibit; it blends art, philosophy, and everyday life to present a kaleidoscope of views on a topic everyone has wrestled with.

David Hodge and Hi-Jin Hodge are filmmakers and artists whose work explores complex human and social questions. They live in Half Moon Bay, California. 1559393076, 9781559393072