Mystic Peak

Mystic Peak takes takes its name from Case 23 of The Blue Cliff Record, as rendered in Matthew Juksan Sullivan’s The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: Baofu and Changqing find the mystic peak. The photographs were made on the Fourth of July, 2026, at Civic Center in San Francisco—an abstract work of light thrown into the sky in celebration of U.S. independence day, and ode to light: brief, projected, already disappearing.