WG Satōri 2024 is an art project initiated by Niki Wolfe [WOLFEGANG] in the year 2024. In response to something that very much felt like a moment of awakening, revelation and clarity facilitated through visions and sensations derived during states of transcendental meditation. This is a visual interpretation of these experiences.

The project was extended to the WOLFEGANG creative collective inviting each member to respond to theme of Satōri in any format they felt best expressed their personal contribution. You can experience this work below.

Satōri in Paris is a 1966 novella by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It is a short, autobiographical tale of Kerouac's trip to Paris, then Brittany, to research his genealogy. Kerouac relates his trip in a tumbledown fashion as a lonesome traveller. Little is said about the research that he does, and much more about his interactions with the French people he meets.

Satōri is a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening, "comprehension; understanding". It is derived from the Japanese verb satoru. In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to a deep experience of kenshō, "seeing into one's true nature". Ken means "seeing," shō means "nature" or "essence".