Saturday, July 23, 2011

Duality



Music from Lara St. John & Marie-Pierre Langlamet, "Bach:Sonatas"
Athena and the Seasons brought wreaths of grass and spring flowers to Pandora, original , all-giving. A shift from matriarchy to patriarchy in Greek culture befalls, as the life-bringing goddess Pandora is eclipsed, the death-bringing human Pandora arises. Thus, in the patriarchal mythology of Hesiod her great figure is strangely changed and diminished. She is no longer Earth-Born, but the creature, the handiwork of Olympian Zeus.

trippin' on the isle of cortes


Thursday, July 21, 2011

a 'rose' smells as good by any other 'name'


I like to work with Mondrian techniques. I sometimes take a single photo and use various segments of the photo to show different perspectives.
Mondrian's best and most-often quoted expression of his theory:
I construct lines and color combinations on a flat surface, in order to express general beauty with the utmost awareness. Nature (or, that which I see) inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation (still just an external foundation!) of things… I believe it is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.


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