RahMeek Rasul….A conversation.
Rahmeek Rasul came over bringing a glowing Buddah on his shirt. Rahmeek is a photographer too.
He had some words to say. we asked Rahmeek what would he teach the people and he said:
“compassion. Inform them on compassion, You’d be surprised who doesn’t know about compassion, who doesn’t really deal with the concept of it…but it is, a beautiful thing.”
And Stacy T says,
“so you feel that your work is about the concept of compassion?”
And says Rahmeek,
“it’s about compassion, understanding people, bringing other peoples worlds to others peoples worlds.
interconnectivity, it’s all connected and what happens is, people try to make the disconnect and that’s what happens–they become disconnected. by disconnecting yourself from other people–you disconnect yourself…..from the network, from the people, , from life.
And to me the idea is to stay connected.”
Stacy goes:
“So do you feel passion when you see your work?”
“oh yeh,” says Rah, “I remember Hadley was looking at my work and she said ‘hey is that your work?’ and I said’ yeh!’ she said ‘You get that excited?’ and I’m like ‘Yeh!’ –some of this {work} is old! and I still get excited! you know what I mean? it’s just…..I love this…..”
Big T goes:
“yeh, I can feel the energy, I really can. I can see and feel that energy and when you see your work I can see your really there, you’re in the moment!”
And I have to ask my favorite question before we finish. I ask how The Mighty Rah deals with obsticles and challenges in his life, and he said this:
“I say I take positive information, energy, people….it can be anything from meditation, prayer just kinda like….getting that still time, it’s like that whole….be still know that I’m God, y’know, recognize that God without but also recognizing that God within…”
I agree.
Stacy T says,
“where do you get your peace and solice?”
Rah says:
“photography gets me like that, the interacting with people. Sometimes interacting we can hit a cord in a conversation, I get real loud…I can totally get caught up….it’s all about the story, it’s all about the Narrative, it’s all about the Narr.
To me it’s the story, from begining to end wheather Adam and eve, adam met steve…it’s a story. it’s about mussa, moses and judas and addis ababa international……”
So I say, one last word before we go:
“Be peace, Move forward and get out of your own way.”
Well Thank you Rahmeek,
it’s been a fun chat>>>>
