green

 

Up in the air

 

Whether I can get this to where I’d be happy with is a bit up in the air.

Big News

“Big” Al Gore has vowed to save the world from climate change by going on a diet. It is believed that the resulting reduced pressure on the earth’s resources in no longer having to feed and maintain Gore at his current level could restore health and balance to the global environment.

Nero con punti rossi

 

By Alberto Burri, 1957.

laNdscape

 

I don’t know if this will become something finished or not, but I suppose there’s no harm in showing it as is - or at least as was when I photographed it.

Fruits

 The line from the Gospels, “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Ordinarily one would think of this in reference to people, of good or bad inclination, and especially those who “come in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.”

On a more direct individual level though, it reflects on the inner state which arises from where we put our attention. This can be external things or perhaps the thoughts in our heads, which may lead us in certain psychological directions, such as despair. So here again, whatever it is, what are its fruits?

trees, evening

 

Torch

“The batteries seem to be after running out on your torch.”

“Looks like you’re right. I might as well throw it out now, I suppose.”

“Throw it out?!”

“Well no, I’ll hold onto it. I can always use it I suppose to hit people over the head with it.”

“But why not just buy new batteries for it?”

“Oh I didn’t think of that. That’s what I’ll do.”

Blanket

[This below is a bit frustrating to my mind as it feels like it has some depth to it, but if so, what that is for now escapes me.]

“If you came across some ugly, horrible sight on the side of the road, what would you do about it?”

“I don’t know. Maybe I’d put a blanket over it.”

“But that wouldn’t remove it. What would be the point? It would still be there.”

“Yes, but at least no one would have to look at it.”

Seraph

 

The full, though still unfinished, picture was image of something I showed a few days ago, and with a colour filter applied.

Sumi-e coloUrs

 

2 gulls

 

Without

“You know what to a certain person, or let’s say someone in a certain state of being, heaven might be?”

“What?”

“A world without distractions.”

“And do you know to another person, or person in a very different state of being, what hell might be like?”

“What?”

“A world without distractions.”

fiGure

 

water

 

noW

 

Something I’m doing now.

A Man Who Saw Demons

 I found this well worth watching.

across the night sky 2

 

A bit more cleaning up of the picture later.

Okom blagoutrobnym, Gospodi

 

across the night sky

 I should have photographed this a couple of days ago before I decided to try to see if something could be made of it, cos in truth it probably looked not much more than a mess fit for the bin. After plenty scraping away at the ink and paper with a sharp blade though, this is what I’ve managed to help emerge, not that it’s finished yet.

Across the water

 

Tattoos, Piercings, Spirit of the Age

Why the massive increase in tattoos, piercings in the very modern era? Because the spirit of the age is materialism, and thus the mind/soul of those immersed in that spirit is on identification with the flesh, and to an unprecedented level. So the spirit tries to merge absolutely with the flesh. In the apparent absence of a higher spiritual reality, it tries to brand  itself in the physical. The sense of higher or spiritual truth is intrinsic to us and so that powerful yearning for truth and union will be there, but here it attempts to fulfil itself with the flesh - in a time where the prevalent ethos informs there is nothing beyond flesh/matter. So here is where truth is attained.

Obviously I could go on alot on this, but this is the brutal shorthand.

cranes