Charles Lindsay (thats me) is an artist-adventurer whose work synthesizes ideas about time, technology, eco-systems and semiotics. Lindsay creates immersive environments, sound installations, sculptures built from salvaged aerospace and bio-tech equipment. His eighth book of photographs “Recipes for the Mind” is an abstract autobiography available from Terranova / MIT Press. The SETI Institute’s SETI AIR program turned 10 on Mother’s Day 2020. Bettina Forget is the new Program Director. I’m continuing as ‘Founder / Senior Advisor’ working the outer orbits as ambassador. Following all the machinations brought on by the pandemic, with super serendipity and renewed clarification of purpose, I sold my upstate New York studio of 20 years in order to base in El Pescadero, Baja and Kyoto, Japan — triangulating between Ryosoku-in Zen Temple, studying with the brilliant and progressive Vice Abbott Toryo Ito, and Kyoto University of the Arts, where I’m now a visiting professor.

“How to Photograph Enlightenment / Pause Translation” is scheduled for fall 2022 at Kennin-ji / Ryosoku-in. The installation within the temple will feature a hacked parking meter selling time and space in a raked ‘karesansui’ garden. An AR experience, NFTs, and the opportunity to join me on night bicycle rides are all in the works. Crushed beer cans, a Bird of Paradise and a magical 108 year old Koto will share the stage. It is an incredible venue to pursue consciousness research with one simple question: can Ai become conscious? If so, can it become enlightened? This dovetails with a question I’ve long wondered which is would we, could we, recognize an enlightened person standing directly in front of us? For that matter ET? Further, what photographs would an enlightened photographer make? Well, I’m assuming that role, with humor and a growing sense that the art I make best functions as kōans. SE VENDE is the new Baja based body of work. The first piece sold fo a single Bitcoin. Ever grateful. More news soon. Thanks for looking.