We all get hung up on wanting to be in a perpetual state of expansion, but that’s not how it works. Linear growth is a myth. The evolution of anything isn’t a smooth bell curve. It’s a pulse, a wave, a heartbeat. You are designed to contract and expand.

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“Every contraction in life is setting you up for another expansion it has to. It’s the rhythm of life.”   ~ Dr. Habib Sadeghi

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This year, 15 artists of OSA Award featured in “Rhythm of Life” respond to their self, the society and the world, initiated by this motion of shape shifting. Their works reflect on our current adversity is the path that lead us to the greatest union and growth.

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Life is shape shifting. Life is growth. It is in the energy created between the contraction and expansion as they continually swap position in our lives.

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First, you get small. Then, you get bigger. Contraction, expansion. Drawing in, breaking through. Shrinking, shining.

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This is the Rhythm of Life.