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Category Archives: Art
I thought of a poem
Will have to write it down. – Niebla (2015)
Posted in Art, Literature, Poetry
Tagged blurry, light and shadow, photographers on tumblr, poem, telescopical, writing
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A calvary variation
A calvary variation, by Johannes Beilharz Digitally modified version of a photo taken near Divino Amore, Lazio, Italy.
Posted in Art, Bible, Death, Jesus, Life, Mysticism, Nature, Photography, Religion
Tagged calvary, calvary hill, calvary variation, crucifixion, easter, Golgatha, original photographers, photographers on tumblr, photography, resurrection, trees
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Heavy sky
Photo by Johannes Beilharz, 2012
One word
… a perfect illustration of the blur of time – evanescence, transience, eradication. Continue reading
Leonine
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
Posted in Art, God, Hermeticism, Imagination, Life, Literature, Mystery, Poetry, World
Tagged horror, wrath
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A dream of fire and air
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
Posted in Art, Death, God, Hermeticism, Imagination, Life, Literature, Love, Mystery, Poetry, World
Tagged air, fire, Indian, kiss, Mayan, Sun
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Selective light
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.
A look into the past
Whimsy for Inspire Me Thursday. Digital photography.
Posted in Art, History, Imagination, Nature, World
Tagged Inspire Me Thursday, montage, past, photography
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Calf in the astral world
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
Posted in Art, Humor, Imagination, Literature, Mystery, Poetry, Surrealism, World
Tagged astral, astral world, calf
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A door
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