words and art by w a l t e r w s m i t h

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Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A New Morning

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a new morning
with colors of possibilities
what will I find
that will bring me
peace of mind

lost just over the horizon
are the wishful memories
and waking realities
– life is
what life is


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Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A Barren Autopsy

Post Canvas And Paint: Variations ~ A Barren Autopsy

a barren autopsy
of ourselves;
the lack of compassion
for a deep sense of lost
and stolen innocence

what do we see
when we look in the mirror
on cold December nights
but the tears of children
falling from our eyes …

As a society we are becoming numb to reason. And as a consequence, we may one day lose our humanity.


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Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Last Train To The Beach

Post Canvas And Paint: Variations ~ Last Train To The Beach

years ago
it felt like yesterday
the last train to the beach


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Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A Circular Response

Post Canvas And Paint: Variations ~ A Circular Response

all too often

life brings us full circle

with a response too late


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Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Last Train

Post Canvas And Paint: Variations ~ Last Train

The night was falling
into a distant rumble;
churning and grinding
like tearful strokes

dreaming in memories;
the sound
and the acid smell of diesel
eating away this very moment
our every gesture of things promised


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate | Fading Roses

Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate ~ Fading Roses

Beauty, in all its delicacy fades and re-emerges.


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Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A Simple Place To Rest

Post Canvas And Paint: Variations ~ A Simple Place To Rest

here on this sacred ground
bathed in the light of life
a simple place to rest


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Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Echoes Without Canyons

Post Canvas And Paint: Variations ~ Echoes Without Canyons

an endless echo of memories
timelessly reverberating
– adrift
in a fathomless canyon


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Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A Place To Find What Was Lost

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an endless road of memories
a journey of searching dreams
the place to find what was lost


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Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | It’s There If You Find It

Post Canvas And Paint: Varations | It's There If You Find It

struggling with that past
living with the evolution
knowing you’ve never evolved


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons | Departure

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons | Departure

Songs for all seasons …
departure
and arrival


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons | Moments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons | Moments

Often a season is defined by the time of year, yet it can also bring us home. Home to a unique time in our lives. Where the joy of life blooms like Spring, fuels us like Summer, comforts us like Autumn, and brings loved one’s together like Winter.

Life in changing seasons.


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons | Timeless

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons | Timeless

Moments of transition. Timeless in their seasonal change. Spring to Summer. Summer to Autumn. Autumn to Winter. Winter to Spring.

– Life in season


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art and thoughts remixed | an abstraction of historical things – the world under the heavens | dec 1988

art and thoughts remixed | an abstraction of historical things - the world under the heavens | dec 1988

the meetings are now on Sunday @ 1pm
yesterday we took group photos for the press release
– created postcards and graphics
talked and organized

back in October
we went to the American Music Theater Festival
you and i
to see 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
a science fiction music drama

it felt like the duration of timelessness
here in the empty space
a long time after
the things never remembered
your art, my art,
has always had its own history
– lost in stolen innocence
in this world
under the heavens


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons | Places

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons | Places

It only takes a moment to be in a different place. In a different season.


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons | Exploration

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons | Explorations

a Winter of barren white frost
beautiful Spring in bloom
endless Summer with you
a mountain summit trail in Fall


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A Rewind: The Silence In Urban Meditation | The Silence Series

A Rewind: The Silence In Urban Meditation | The Silence Series

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In the city, the choices that become attachments lead us into the noise of our thoughts.

“The Silence Series” is one of my favorite series of works. The format of the each series consist of nine images that slowly evolves through the theme. Simplicity and meditation is the central focus of the collection. Select “The Silence Series” tag to see the entire collection.

“The Silence In Urban Meditation” reflects on the city as a place of ambiguity. Where the distraction inherent to city life, is the perfect place to foster a meditation practice of silence.


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | In The Reflection Of Waking Waterfalls And Sunny Days

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | In The Reflection Of Waking Waterfalls And Sunny Days

In the reflection of things experienced … life as we dream it.

the sun rose
in the morning mist
an image of beauty
like the sparkling sound
a cascade of falling water


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | Cats, Reflections, and Surrealism

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | Cats, Reflections, and Surrealism

Some reflections can be found in nature: Elements of light, time, Spirit, and material compositions coming together to create moments of beauty. Then there are man-made reflections; designs, concepts, ideas, and digital manipulations, creating new ways of seeing a world in reflection. Here is an example of the latter: My cats, my design studio, and an idea that reflects my vision.


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | Slow Creek And Trees

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections / Slow Creek And Trees

I discovered this lovely creek while hiking at Barnwell State Park in South Carolina during my artist residency with the state parks. What an incredible reflection. You can feel the stillness.


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflection | Hidden Stream

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflection / Hidden Stream

A Stream of Glass


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art and thoughts remixed | an abstraction of historical things – when the world you’ve come to know is full of quiet moments | feb 1987

art and thoughts remixed | an abstraction of historical things - when the world you've come to know is full of quiet moments | feb 1987

we may be showing again in May
309 north 3rd street
– portraits;
it was sudden
the conversation about art … and
the things we longed for …
and realities never collected in one moment
… we get to the meeting late
and everyone is leaving
but i am here
on the beach
on the pier
flowered in peaceful meditation


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art and thoughts remixed | an abstraction of historical things – when the world you used to know has been deconstructed | jan 1987

art and thoughts remixed | an abstraction of historical things - when the world you used to know has been deconstructed | jan 1987

that afternoon i got the call
we didn’t do any work as a group
– afterwards
in the rain with the sleet and mist
a self-awareness deconstructed
to be thought of as weird trying to be normal
– a tentative thought
but i soon found out – asleep
in the abandoned monorail station
that everything was fine


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | A Lake Forged In Digital Reflection

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflection | A Lake Of Digital Reflection

An image that is part of my “Post Canvas and Paint” series. A surreal reflection of a lake in a place unknown. A reflective dream of ambiguity.


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