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Photo

Gabby is consciously finding connection to the outside world through her camera lens. After snagging her brother’s old camera off the shelf while she was in college, Gabby found a way to translate something unspoken between us and the natural world. Her art has a way of showcasing both the grand and incredible scales in nature and the deeper moments in between.

Gabby offers an intimate relationship to the elements, one that has grown from observing it closely in true comfortability. Her photos offer a rare perspective that invites you to look between the lines of the Alaskan landscape grandeur and to find a vastness that captures the magic light, hidden breaths of air, and abstract depths that resonate in the being because they are somewhere there inside of us, too.


-New Bright Gallery

Meditation

Gabby’s resonance with the Buddha’s teachings came to light at age 15 when she first read The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama. At 19, time in monasteries and amongst lay-practitioners in Nepal led to further Buddhist study in college and the development of her personal practice. The lessons of compassion, discipline, mind training, breathing, and love carried her through life-altering suffering, debilitating anxiety and depression, caregiving, grief, and death. They also held her in transition, celebration, joy, equanimity, cosmic giggle, and ultimately- peace.

Awakened to her own Buddhanature, she strives to reflect that awakening of inherent goodness in others. In effort to do that skillfully, she is nearing completion of a two year Mindfulness Meditation Teaching Certification under teachers Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and mentor Jill Satterfield.

Her personal teachers she holds dearest are her mother (living), father (deceased), Kyle (brother), and Olive (dog). Her most influential Dharma teachers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Baba Ram Dass, Krishnamurti, and the gentle Nepali man who, when she went to kill a bloodsucking leech from her leg, told her “that was your mother in a past life”.

 

The Four Noble Truths

  1. Life contains suffering.

  2. There is a cause of suffering.

  3. There is an end to suffering.

  4. The end to suffering is through the eightfold path.

The Eightfold Path

  1. Wise View

  2. Wise Intention

  3. Wise Speech

  4. Wise Action

  5. Wise Livelihood

  6. Wise Effort

  7. Wise Mindfulness

  8. Wise Concentration