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Product Description Slow Looking describes and elaborates on the author’s “One Hour/One Painting” sessions, an idea he developed to practice a different, more profound and more rewarding way of looking at art. It combines the practices of meditation and contemplation, asking participants to sit for a full hour in front of a single work of art. Slow Looking and “One Hour/One Painting” are about learning to drop the baggage of prejudice and expectation at the door and taking time to really examine what is actually there. In fourteen brief and highly readable chapters, and including an engaging and interactive audio demonstration, this book describes the process and invites readers to try it out for themselves. About the Author PETER CLOTHIER enjoys a world-wide following for his blog, The Buddha Diaries. Choosing his life-long calling as a writer over an academic career in the 1980s, he has since devoted himself exclusively to his work as a writer and art critic for national magazines. Much influenced in recent years by Buddhist thought and practice, he is known as a public speaker who inspires audiences with a fresh approach to the creative process. He lives and works in Southern California.