Category Archives: Art

One word

Posted on April 20, 2009 by

… a perfect illustration of the blur of time – evanescence, transience, eradication. Continue reading →

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Leonine

Posted on July 11, 2008 by

I have a terrible face, even a cruel one. I’m scarred and disfigured. I seem to have had a few harelip and other operations too many. And the crown of my adornments might be misleading, my forceful symbols misread, my … Continue reading →

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A dream of fire and air

Posted on June 20, 2008 by

I was blue in my dream, like an Indian god, but my headdress was Mayan, and I was kissing a reluctant sun whose serrations were cutting into me. Treacherous heavenly body! I, come out of brown clay, was burning, my … Continue reading →

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Selective light

Posted on June 14, 2008 by

Selective light – crows in Kensington Gardens merged with a sky photo to render this effect for Inspire Me Thursday’s Find the art in the everyday topic.

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A look into the past

Posted on May 23, 2008 by

Whimsy for Inspire Me Thursday. Digital photography.

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Calf in the astral world

Posted on May 23, 2008 by

The moolet among the layered striations of many colors is slightly dazed. Its ears twitch, the occasional head shake helps. But it is firmly planted in all this superior mess, ready to weather things on sturdy knobby legs. – Niebla … Continue reading →

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A door

Posted on May 8, 2008 by

Not the da Vinci original but a copy from the protestant church in Haigerloch, southern Germany. The person to the left of Christ is clearly a woman. This painting is older than Dan Brown’s The da Vinci code but would … Continue reading →

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Dead suburb

Posted on April 25, 2008 by

The brown houses up on the hill, tower-like, where the big families lived, still forbidding in detonated scowl, their will to ignore now relegated to un- inhabited rubble in ultimate irony – now they can no longer pretend, as they … Continue reading →

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Le noir et l’orange

Posted on April 4, 2008 by

Post for Color Combo Challenge – Orange and Black. The two-color motif reminded me of a masterpiece of French literature – Le rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black) by Stendhal (1830), which is about Julien Sorel’s attempt … Continue reading →

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Flatlands and hillside

Posted on March 12, 2007 by

(Caspar David Friedrich, Lonely Tree, 1822) Some people are given flatlands with their wide visibility all around, their peacefully meandering rivers And some have to live with hills and valleys Some with towering cliffs like Himalayas and gaping chasms, narrow … Continue reading →

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