For centuries Buddhist monks have used meditation to attain enlightenment and more recently, physicians have successfully employed meditation to help treat certain disorders.  This is a series of over 25 objects about the power of “mindfulness”, exploring the role arts can play in raising awareness of the value of mindfulness in health treatments and how arts can be used to heal and express experiences of illness. Meditation can also support social change organizations and activists through “mindful activism” by helping them stay grounded when participating  in peaceful resistance. The series is a continuum and it started in 2014 as part of my own meditative practice and studies of Zen philosophy. For me, the repetition process of handwriting the words “no mind” is like saying a mantra or a prayer. It may also remind us of Zen monks who in the early 17th century drew Ensō circles with brush and ink as a form of meditation.