A Moment In The Woods And A Mountain To Look Up To
I love the season of the bike
In the woods
On the mountain
By the lake
Over the rocks and streams
With blue skies above
Through fallen leaves and barren trees
A trail that weaves to and fro
A drop here
A lift there
I love the season of the bike
In the woods
On the mountain
What You Know To Be Right Is What Someone Has Told You
on a quiet shore
a solitary figure
not unlike yourself
shattered by the day
delineated by the question
of rights and wrongs
in life …
again and again
What Do You Remember On A Beautiful Fall Day
an ocean wave
a salty smell
and flocks of seagulls
– in soaring flight
eclisping the summer sun
What Do You Remember When Swimming In A Deep Blue Sea
Adrift
In a deep reflection
Lost at sea
With memories
Drowning
Sinking
In a pool of you
With the darkening blue
A drowning so timeless
Endless without you
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
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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 Meaningful World
Outside my window, in a virtuous world, there can only be … a willingness to let go.
Another Meaningful World
if every day
it meant something
– to you
– to the mirror in me
to protect the heart
even the whole of the world
would i hold my dying breath
to let it all go …
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Virtuous World (At A Crossroad Remix)
Outside my window, in a revealing moment, I see the choices of my life …
Another Virtuous World
disintegrating
with decisions we make
about to what we dream
to whom we should be
and what it means
– to you
and to the mirror
that stands before me …
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 Different World (An Unstructured Thought Remix)
outside my window … beyond the last penned poem
– i see what I can only feel
a sense of disillusionment …
Another Different World
and it is here
– in the world of my own making
that I can no longer provoke a sense of place within this …
an unstructured world, a world without end.
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Fading World (A Deeper Understanding Remix)
Outside my window, I find that some things are without understanding…
Another Fading World
It is a complicated world in which we live. It appears as one thing, yet emerges as another…
contemplative - destructive engaging - futile
A world fading and in conflict with itself….
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 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.
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: An Unfolding Night Next To You (A Scattered Storm Remix)
The night holds many mysteries when time stands still….
she remains transfixed trapped in summer's night contemplating the approaching storm
Searching for chance in the process of creating art.
Within the context of my digital and video work, the objective is to find visual ambient experiences. The process at times, is a stationary camera. Post-production: Unedited film, or with very minimal post editing and digital effects. With this piece, I altered the color tonality. The difficulty in the piece was balancing the black sky, now slightly colorized, while maintaining a brightness/contrast without compromising the visibility of the lightning strikes.
Art can be discovered by random chance.
An Unfolding Night Next To You is the first in a series of new HD experimental video work-in-progress. Some years ago, my first exploration of the still camera and chance recording was an hour-long piece entitled Oceans of Art. This 2012 video was filmed during a late night drive on HWY 221 in South Carolina through a scattered rain storm. Darkness, lightning strikes, pressing rain, and the headlights of passing cars all merge with the music of sound design artist, and master of glitch Alva Noto, creating an eerie journey into meditative abstraction. Rain drops falling on the window shield create a mosaic of pixel forms. These forms are constantly moving and manipulating the video. While sporadic lightning strikes fill the night sky. Patience is in order to gather the full ambient feeling of the piece. Things are there.
Recommended viewing: In a very dark room by single candle light.
http://youtu.be/-KKafg4qoaQ – Copyright 2012 – Walter Smith
Images For Android Phones: A River Runs Through It
Red. The color of those who lost their lives during the American Revolution. This is a photograph of the Enoree River In the back country of South Carolina. During a recent hike, I visited the Musgrove Historic State Park. A signifcant battleground between the British, American Loyalists, and the American Patroits. Intense and bloody battles insued. A divided country. Friend vs friend. Brother vs brother.
red…
a transfusion of color
in blood and tears
– of lost
and gain
but not without
the soul in pain
– the spirit transformed
and the cries of freedom
in red flow
down by the river
brave men fought for independence
– for some
Images For Android Phones: A Place To Rest With Colors
a morning trek
so patiently caressed
on winding paths
while colors reach out
with subtle invitation
through angled trees
and grass so lean
the intrepid eye
never at rest
seeking things anew
with every test of step
except for here
under the gazebo
with summer’s warm
– embrace
as i wait for you
– knowingly
feeling at peace
feeling transcendent
Images For Android Phones: The Last Moment (A Setting Sun Remix)
sitting on the beach
with the cooling sand
caressing my sandaled feet
mind and body
feeling bonded
with this very moment
the last moment
– here
with the setting sun
and you
while my joy
– and clouds
join in blended
transformation
leaving the waves
a fluid surrender
to a day ending
n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s 