The devotional doesn't require the embodiment of religious form....Devotional art subverts temporal compulsion. It's there to inspire the verticality of one's psyche. It breaks the absorption in the relative allowing the mind of devotion to selflessly rest on phenomena. From a Buddhist's point of view the idea of trying to resolve yourself within the relative world is considered futile. --Nathaniel Dorsky

This is not a new idea. When we view Egyptian pieces they disrupt verticality. Art at its wildest best is so vertical that it suggests that death is as present as life. Metaphorically this could be like seeing a film in a dark room, or seeing the world out of our own darkness. --Nathaniel Dorsky

• Mary Kite, Interview with Nathaniel Dorsky, Poetry Project Newsletter (Feb/March 2001).