Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal
A favorite form of renewal for me is meditation. The quiet process of becoming self-aware. Often in my meditation practice I bring my awareness to the energy centers of the body. Most notably defined as the chakras. The 4th chakra featured in this challenge of renewal is known as the heart chakra Anahata. Green is the color of this chakra. At the center of any kind of renewal is the heart. When this chakra is in balance, we are open to love, renewal and expression. This work of art is part of The Silence Series: Chakra Colors For Meditation.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry
The last day of the Geometry challenge, and I thought I would include one more entry. I have really enjoyed the challenge. I think a lot of my work can relate to the principles of geometry. This last post contains the piece entitled: “First You Make A Roux”. During my visit to New Orleans last year, I came across an antique shop which had the slogan painted on the window. I snapped the photo and then created this collage. Hope you enjoy.
New Landscapes: Winter – Departure Songs And Shattered Recordings
Oh if it’s more than I should
It’s more than I ever could
If my heart needed you to stay
At the end of the day
Would you go
Oh my life’s story is so thin
Underneath this torn skin
Lost in the hardness
Of this bitter chill
– a Winter
With nothing more to fill
Oh it’s more than I ever should
– if only
I could
Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry
This piece is one of my favorites. In designing this digital collage I was attempting to bring the mind to a point of focus. Everlasting Consciousness. The Awareness of Light. This piece may not necessarily point to more traditional forms of geometric art. But I do believe it does perhaps achieve an ethereal, spacial, mathematical sensibility. Consciousness is design. Consciousness in its geometric form … is Divine.
New Landscapes: Winter – Tape Loops And Departure Songs
I just want to lie down
In the cold white snow
And listen
To the dreams
Come crashing down
I just want to sit down
In the bitter Winter snow
And listen
To the silence
Come screaming in
New Landscapes: Winter – A Wonderland Of Dreams With You
A dream lingering in fire
With the warm pulse
Of departure songs
A Winter of magic and loss
– gone
In a cold and deepening frost
a rewind: n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s: the abstract series (and some thoughts on joy and expression)
I recently published a small square, hard cover book of abstract digital art, poetry, and prose. What an exciting endeavor. The process was full of challenges, twists and turns (visually speaking), color, and contemplation. Many nights were spent with candles aflame, incense burning and music playing. In trying to find that inner connection, with all my experiences in life, I soon discovered the process that would motivate me unconditionally: Work with love. Work with intent. Art is a beautiful thing. Being in touch with the art of others is very inspiring and uplifting as well. As artists, writers, poets, and musicians we’ve come to love and appreciate the many vehicles for creative expression and community. Sharing our work is very important. Our blogs, books, exhibits, and performances are all vital in healing the soul of the planet. Our shared joys and tragedies find themselves being expressed and transformed via the beautiful and meaningful art that you and I create. Let us never forget, the significance of what we create, love and share.
New Landscapes: Winter – A Tape Recording Of Your Departure
we could fight
on a cold winter night
– with bitter kisses
New Landscapes: Winter – The Silent Season
I walk alone
– in silence
My footsteps left behind
Frozen in time
The snow painted path
Bathed – in silence
Your whispering voice
On the cold haunting wind
New Landscapes: Winter – The Film Of Life
An empty theater
A foreboding glacier chill
The bitter reminder
Of a life story un-fulfilled
New Landscapes: Winter – The Never Ending Darkness
Without ever an end
This tunnel of love
Filled with the coldness of night.
New Landscapes: Winter – The Reflective Frost Of The Heart At Night
In the dark of night
On the edge of sky
A bitter frost
New Landscapes: Winter – The Lost Beauty Of Incomplete Things
A journey so far
Miles from your arms
Cascading down
Falling like stars
The rocky spiral of moments
– lost
On the cliffs of Winter
And the bone shattering sadness
Found in the dark below
And in the watery grave …
The lost beauty
Of incomplete things
New Landscapes: Winter – The Hardness Of The Chill
somewhere in my life
in my thoughts
in my past moments with …
i see your words
describe the way i feel
at this very moment …
– lost and abandoned
the hardness of the chill within
weathered by your storm
the screaming inside your memories
like the passion of war against the night
a broken obstacle …
to the building of your dreams
and the cold fears to come
never alone without this loss
and the hardness of the chill within
New Landscapes: Fall In Play 05 – Loop
One of the more exciting elements of mountain biking is going around in circles. Yes, the loop. Four miles. Eight miles. Sixteen miles. Ascending then descending. Round and round. Flashing by beautiful vistas; man-made lakes, mountain summits, and ridges. All swirling by your mind’s eye, without pause to the rewind. Let’s play on a Fall day … the loop de loop.
New Landscapes: Fall In Play 04 – Rewind
turn back the time
and remember when
– or how
you found the meaning
of things … misunderstood
– here
forward in time
in the day’s (f)all
in Autumn’s call
the rewind …
of place … memory
and state of mind
New Landscapes: Fall In Play 03 – Pause
After an hour of exploring the various ups and downs of the terrain, Nancy feels the need for a pause in play. Taking a moment to catch her breath and letting the beauty of the day sink it. Autumn has a way of bringing moments to a standstill. Allowing us to embrace a much-needed connection with ourselves. Its transformational essence can stimulate our senses and bring joy to our lives. Let’s pause in play and fall in love with the day.
New Landscapes: Fall In Play 02 – Start
Well here I am around noon today. My Trek bike and I are stationary on the ridge of a man-made lake which is under construction. Preparing for the first descent. It is a beautiful Fall day indeed. Mild temperatures and blue sunny skies. Mesmerizing and zen-like. Music on my Ipod; trance-like and meditative. Time to play. Lets start.
New Landscapes: Fall In Play
Today in my little town, I am going to have a some fun. I am about to head out to the Gray Court Park. Gray Court, South Carolina is a small one-light historic town established in 1899. It has taken over a century to build a major park. Construction has begun on a man-made lake. A perfect place while under construction for some free-style mountain biking training. The slopes of the lake are varied; some are steep, tightly packed, others rocky and treacherous. What a find. And it is located just a few minutes from my house. This will provide many hours of practice during the Fall and Winter for myself and my riding partner. I will snap some photos and video footage to post later.
New Landscapes: Fall In Starlight
life on the edge
of everything remembered
– here
with the starlight
in your eyes
and the twilight
in the rainbow sky
New Landscapes: Fall In-Between
the narrow way
from
the descent
the broad way
– to it
Life in recovery through the colors of art
Finding the true self on the path of liberation …
New Landscapes: Fall In Expressionism
It appeared seductively
In Autumn’s sweet voice
Whispering with a vision
Beautiful am I not
Here with you
Coloring your day
New Landscapes: Fall In Dreams
it’s there
left Behind
in an autumn past
– your dreams
memories in decay
like falling leaves
with nothing
– to believe
n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s 