5/31/11

42/ appear-ing




It's a bit of a mystery, how much to say about what
motivates these images. In fact they just happen; initially
the thought was about how things appear to emerge,
all overlaid with travels in asia where time seems to
emerge in amazing layers.

Is it possible to suggest the
Unchanging in an unchanging form?



5/30/11

41/ standing




Sometimes the day seems to influence the light
in what I'm working on, but for this it was sunny when I began,
& grey as I finished; also the light in Laos is different,
that's where these elegant statues are.
Also the screen is different again, super bright.






5/26/11

40/ leafing




leaf-ing meditation






& another .. gold leafing.






5/21/11

37/ still appearing




Doing this the day before 21st: Judgement Day.
did it happen, were you saved, who judged??





5/20/11

36/ meditations




Yesterday Gerhard taught me some new tricks,
I finished off some pictures with them, such fun.






have been doing something similar by hand, more or less,
but these tools suggest new approaches too






the main problem is to not be in front of the screen
all day & night.
however tomorrow is the predicted day of judgement..
damn, I guess that means no power..
weird, really, that one group expects to be 'saved'
for the beliefs they have learnt.






5/18/11

33/ beach





I thought I'd only put my digital art here,
but why not photos, too, since most are made up of photos.






these date from before my digital cameras,
there is a difference I think






one thing is that I went to the beach almost every day,
then, so caught many moods






Also there is a difference when the aim is to get reference
for paintings, rather than as an end result.







5/17/11

32/ buddha




Read on at least one site that today is
the Buddha Jayanti.
That is the celebration of his birth, enlightenment &
nirvana. A kind of strange one, when to be
'enlightened' is meant to be beyond birth, death
& all dualities.
A nice thing to celebrate, nonetheless.





5/7/11

30/ vision




This is the first one I've completed on the Mac, though
the separate photographs date from different trips to Thailand.
Had my eyes tested yesterday, pleased to discover
there is not much change.




5/6/11

29/ exercising




It's really giving my internal memory banks
a workover, to be moving frequently between
the pc & mac, today I lost the one above
through carelessness, had to finish it again.






& this was more complicated than it looks, as the bricks in
the wall are in perspective ~ when I matched those behind
the buddha in another photo, he became elongated.
Will look at it again in a few days, not sure it's finished.






5/4/11

28/ spangled drongo




This came about because I'd fluked a nightlights shot that
resembles notes of music. Put a few different ones
together for the background, with two shots of the same
buddha.

5/2/11

27/ faded glory




To me, this is like memory: some details hardly there,
other parts in the foreground for no special reason,
the whole looking like a random cross-reference ~
although this is carefully thought through.. as much as
one can say that.. the synapses spark along that
particular route for who knows why, then some other
part of the brain makes up a story. Isn't it so?

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