What Do You Feel When You Look Skyward
i often look skyward
to direct my focus inward
sometimes feeling the sky speak
as I see things in a different light.
– than yesterday
the rain has gone
falling earthbound
– like the pepples of broken nights
with my dreams
lost in weary shadows
not to far behind
– from yesterday’s rising sun
These are some magnificent pastels works of art by Richard at Artkleko’s weblog entitled Southern Midlands.
Earlier in the week I completed a series of 5 pastel paintings featuring aspects of Tasmania’s Southern Midlands. This was my first serious foray in pastels for a very long time, but after 10 days’ work I had reached my goal. I wouldn’t call them brilliant by any means, but I enjoyed the experience and used my time to see what I knew and after an evaluation, what I needed to work on.
I am however, pleased with what I’ve achieved and now I have embarked on a direction that is different, but one that I hope will produce something of note. (I’m currently working on a series of semi-abstracts, beginning with subjects from my recent time in Central Australia. I aim to post an update next week.)
The Southern Midlands area of Tasmania is more often dry than not. It can be a very dusty area, with little pasture…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary
A solitary moment can be found almost anywhere. Mountain biking, gives me the opportunity to be one with nature, explore my inner solitude and focus my imposing will against the difficult terrain. Here is a shot from this weekend as my partner and I rode the trails at FANTS Grove at the forestry of Clemson University in South Carolina.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life
I took this shot at Virginia Beach. A leisure kind of day. As we go through life, we sometimes need a ‘break’ from everyday life.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far
It has been a while since I posted on the Challenge. I really like this prompt. So here is my contribution. It is a photo taken with my Android phone of the shore line in Virginia Beach. The phone has no zoom capability. So everything looks far away. But the chair, my girlfriend and the shore line are closer than they appear. I don’t usually contribute any black and white photos, but for this challenge I felt the desire to do so. Some soft focus treatments are used on the image.
Virginia Beach
Another Earth: Ferris Wheel
Just across the ocean, under a glistening sky, a new town, a turning place, one that we have yet to discover …
Another Earth: Ferris Wheel
there’s a happiness
come to earth
with its new birth
spinning lightly in the night sky
children play with their dreams
– unaware
enchanted by the magic and loss
that has come to town
our every wishful moment
– found here
on the Ferris Wheel of Life …
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One of my favorite film soundtracks is BT’s Ferris Wheel – Love Theme from the film Monster starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci. A beautiful and haunting song. It hangs in the balance of love and life and its uncertainty.
Here is the link to Ferris Wheel – Love Theme
Another Earth: The Transcending Dream
You touched me with your thoughts as I felt your dreams float away …
Another Earth: The Transcending Dream
in a dream
another earth …
Another Earth: Bridge Over Water
If on a beautiful day at the beach, we could just bridge the gap between our dreams and our reality …
Another Earth: Bridge Over Water
I often find in the solace of nature’s tranquility, my mind, floating on the ocean waves, and soaring with the clouds above. Here my dreams drift. With untold stories of yearning. A forgotten moment here, an aspiration there. All together within me.
Perhaps gone and abandoned.
Until this very thought, this very day. On the beach. And now, fully free of life’s constraints, I walk across this bridge. A bridge over endless water … The internal ocean of desires.
the deep blue sea
floods my being
– with discovery
and perpetual longing
– unfolding
Another Earth: Girl On The Beach
A moment of drifting waves and splashing sky, with the colors of thing to come …
Another Earth: Girl On The Beach
drifting on the endless sea
the timeless invocation
of thoughts colliding
like the waves upon the shore
and the distant
skyward memories
Another Earth
No longer outside my window, but here within … Another Earth
Another Earth
Peaceful – Beautiful – Magnificent
– the home within our hearts …
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Industrial World (A Future Lost Remix)
Outside my window, in the last industrial park, the remnants of dreams lost and a world decaying…
Another Industrial World
the industrial age has come and gone
a global feudal state awaits for the masses
– perhaps
but for now we can only look to a future unknown
as the structure of civilization unravels
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Unknown World (A Thought Beyond Remix)
Outside my window and with every thought, I discovered the color and design of things unknown…
Another Unknown World
The colors are all in front of me and my world will never collapse from within…
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Timeless World (An Outside My Window Remix)
The feeling of motion, spacial and timeless; the secret call to go out and see …
Another Timeless World
There is a feeling, a blissful connection with self …
Here on the ascension …
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Parisian World (A 1990 Paris France Remix)
As I Stood on the Eiffel Tower and looked across the rooftops of Paris, I marveled at the world I had discovered…
Another Parisian World
What an eclectic moment, basking in timeless beauty, here above the City of Lights.
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Sleeping World (A On The Street Remix)
It was an early morning moment when I awakened from my deep and troubled sleep…
Another Sleeping World
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Creative World (A On The Corner Remix)
On a corner, somewhere in my world, I can find a place … to embrace … imagination.
Another Creative World – On The Corner
It is here, in this world, in the experience that is my life, I find myself...
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Colored World
Outside my window I saw a beautiful world of color…
Another Colored World
I often dreamed of a rainbow of colors - that would fill the hearts and minds of men ...
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Gray World
Outside my window I sometimes wondered, if I could understand the world I was seeing…
Another Gray World
A world divided can sometimes find its meaning and solace
- in the space
in-between white and black ...
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Red World
Outside my window in a deepening sorrow, I saw the world of the innocent bathed in red…
Another Red World
Tragedy befalls a world that finds itself at war with itself...
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Green World – Part 02
Outside my window the world had changed…
Another Green World – part 02 (A World Divided)
Save the Earth before it is too late. It is the only home, in this physical world we will ever have…
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Green World – Part 01
Outside my window the world was changing…
Another Green World – part 01
Save the Earth…
In The Reflection Of Waking Waterfalls And Sunny Days (A Photograph Of You Remix)
In the reflection of things experienced … life as we dream it …
the sun rose like a jewel in the morning mist an image of beauty - shining like the sparkling sound - of a distant cascade with falling water and merging hearts ...
In The Dark I Can’t Safely Say (A What My Life Has Meant Remix)
A path with unspoken words and transcending moments…
The path in life
i often wonder if i am misunderstood - by me in my every waking moment ...
Images For HD Video: Sometimes In The Waking The Reality Is More Pressing Than The Dream
There are times when I have a visual dream. In the waking. A collage of kinetic images. And as painful as it may sometimes be, I can but only love … living my art; finding fuel for it in the most unlikely places …
a new day …
This piece is an exploration of the moment when waking from a dream. The dream persists, but so does the realities of life: Our personal journey. As they intrude. Crash. Collide. And take us for a ride along the highway of uncertainty. I think it is here, in this moment, that we can rise from our slumber with our greatest fear or with our greatest hope. As we face the day, with our portfolio of experiences, memories, and designs, we can, with internal intent and wisdom, begin our search for a better tomorrow.
http://youtu.be/58Nwb7HmbLQ – Sometimes In the Waking the Reality Is More Pressing Than the Dream 3:10; music by Nine Inch Nails
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