How Beautiful Thou Art!
Here is a recent colour photographic image…….
Title : How Beautiful Thou Art!
….maybe it is easier to see the beauty of ourselves in others?
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Psychology
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Temporal Illusion
New photograph……… Title : Temporal Illusion
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Searching For Myself
New mixed medium artwork……… Title : Searching For Myself
At first I thought about calling this…….. Two Figures – Searching For Myself
with the idea of one character asking the other………”have you seen myself?”
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Front
The FRONT ….This local sign is what most people look at and see (popular pub culture).
The BACK…….Below is what I see too……love the holes which are not obvious from the front.
Back
Everything in life depends on how we see it.
Change our view…… and everything changes.
I feel this sign dramatically shows what a change of viewpoint will do.
The front side is loud…bold and eye catching.
The back is minimal, contemplative and peaceful.
You may prefer the front or the back……..that is your choice.
But both are very different….and most people never see the back.
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Tony and His New Leg
Life can test us in many different ways.
But our ATTITUDE makes the difference in our acceptance of these tests.
About a year ago a friend Tony has his leg off above the knee.
He faced the whole experience with humour and never complained on the huge adjustment this required in his life.
On a recent visit he quietly reached forward and suddenly re-adjusted his leg.
He termed this…..”an ice breaker.”
Tony has a website at http://www.tonyprance.com/index.html
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The Romantic and The Realist
Seeing is not only about what you see in front of you.
The Sugar Bowl Cloud Watchers are revealing their personalities more and more everyday.
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Threshold of Desire
I have always been fascinated with the concept of desire being the first step to achieving anything. With this artwork I have tried to captured the moment before “a desire” has formed. All thoughts and emotions are pouring over the edge of our unformed substance and beginning to come together. Emotions are stirring and gaining power. Desire is being born.
To me the title describes it best…..here we are given a special view of that time just before the desire has taken form……. the Threshold of Desire.
You may be interested in what Wikipedia says this about Desire
Desire is a sense of longing for a person or object or hoping for an outcome. Desire is the fire that sets action aflame. The same sense is expressed by emotions such as “craving” or “hankering”. When a person desires something or someone, their sense of longing is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of the item or person, and they want to take actions to obtain their goal. The motivational aspect of desire has long been noted by philosophers; Hobbes (1588–1679) asserted that human desire is the fundamental motivation of all human action.
In Buddhism, for an individual to effect his or her liberation, the flow of sense-desire must be cut completely; however, while training, he or she must work with motivational processes based on skilfully applied desire. The Buddha stated, according to the early Buddhist scriptures, that monks should “generate desire” for the sake of fostering skillful qualities and abandoning unskillful ones.[2]
While desires are often classified as emotions by laypersons, psychologists often describe desires as different from emotions; psychologists tend to argue that desires arise from bodily structures, such as the stomach’s need for food, whereas emotions arise from a person’s mental state. Marketing and advertising companies have used psychological research on how desire is stimulated to find more effective ways to induce consumers to buy a given product or service. While some advertising attempts to give buyers a sense of lack or wanting, other types of advertising create desire associating the product with desirable attributes, either by showing a celebrity or model with the product.
The theme of desire is at the core of the romance novel, which often create drama by showing cases where human desire is impeded by social conventions, class, or cultural barriers. As well, it is used in other literary genres, such as gothic novels such as Dracula by Bram Stoker, in which desire is mingled with fear and dread. Poets ranging from Homer to Toni Morrison have dealt with the themes of desire in their work. Just as desire is central to the written fiction genre of romance, it is the central theme of melodrama films, which use plots that appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience by showing “crises of human emotion, failed romance or friendship”, in which desire is thwarted or unrequited.
Prints available at Saatchi Online http://www.saatchionline.com/art/New-Media-Art-Digital-Painting-Threshold-of-Desire/348950/188830/view
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