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the ever-present pain in my chest has been replaced by an emptiness I'm not sure will be filled.
it seems as if the world is spinning fast and I am moving in slow motion.
my eyes have lost the light that you gave them and my body drags about, searching for the memory of what it's like to feel.
I am nothing but a hollow shell of the person you and I once knew,
merely existing with nothing to hold but the vague, quickly fading hope of a way out of this darkness.
Depression
I am a week late in posting this, but here is my fourth photo in my collab with Grace of the five stages of grief. Originally I wanted this entire series of photos to be faceless and speak through body language, angles, processing, etc., but for this one I just couldn't get the mood accross as well without using my face. I am happy with the way this turned out.
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Living in the crazy world of depression.
I have always believed that an artist's work was a mirror for the world. To help us all work out the truth of things, with visual statements made that could be cuddled or destroyed..
The Artist, the philosopher bares it all, for all to see. In the process they run the risk of seeing too much.
i really can't explain how i feel. there's too much at once; sadness, helplessness, hopelessness, lost, useless, anxiety, confusion... it's all trying to come out at once and it takes me everything not to just lose it on a daily basis. the smallest things will upset or set me off. the only way i can tell you how i feel is with a photo.
Off the shores of the Carolina's sits a grouping of heavy rain and thunderstorms. All seems somewhat normal, but the seas will turn a bit angrier, as the storm slowly churns and gains more strength, possibly being billed as a Tropical Depression or weak hurricane later on in the weekend. But as of now, the system has yet to be anything more than a Tropical Depression.
July 5th, 2018
At the height of the Great Depression only five of these V-12 Silver Arrow sedans were built, three still exist. Sold new for $10,000, about double a top of the line Cadillac; around $7000 less than a Duesenberg. In 1933 The company was owned by Studebaker Corporation and the bodies were built at Studebaker.
I am sorry to those of you who are tired of seeing these types of things coming from me. BUT its my only outlet right now and making them some how keeps me busy..keeps me from goin insane or doing something else.
I took this photo several years ago and just re-worked it. I am calling it "misfortune".
“The pupil dilates in darkness
and in the end finds light,
just as the soul dilates in misfortune
and in the end finds God.”
- Victor Hugo
(Les Misérables)
I don't have any quotes or poems for this one. I've been dealt a rather shitty hand these past few weeks and I wanted to express the feeling via a photo, or somehow creatively.
Item Credits:
[Vale Koer]
[Substructure]
5 illustrations for a little story about depression and burn out.
please visit the album to show it in the right order.
the watercoulor technik is done by computer with picturesfrom G.H.L. and KenCT. Thank you guys for using your pictures.
Gateshead is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The town shares the Millennium Bridge, Tyne Bridge and multiple other bridges with Newcastle upon Tyne.
Historically part of County Durham, under the Local Government Act 1888 the town was made a county borough, meaning it was administered independently of the county council.
In the 2021 Census, the town had a population of 196,151.
Gateshead is first mentioned in Latin translation in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as ad caput caprae ("at the goat's head"). This interpretation is consistent with the later English attestations of the name, among them Gatesheued (c. 1190), literally "goat's head" but in the context of a place-name meaning 'headland or hill frequented by (wild) goats'. Although other derivations have been mooted, it is this that is given by the standard authorities.
A Brittonic predecessor, named with the element *gabro-, 'goat' (c.f. Welsh gafr), may underlie the name. Gateshead might have been the Roman-British fort of Gabrosentum.
There has been a settlement on the Gateshead side of the River Tyne, around the old river crossing where the Swing Bridge now stands, since Roman times.
The first recorded mention of Gateshead is in the writings of the Venerable Bede who referred to an Abbot of Gateshead called Utta in 623. In 1068 William the Conqueror defeated the forces of Edgar the Ætheling and Malcolm king of Scotland (Shakespeare's Malcolm) on Gateshead Fell (now Low Fell and Sheriff Hill).
During medieval times Gateshead was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durham. At this time the area was largely forest with some agricultural land. The forest was the subject of Gateshead's first charter, granted in the 12th century by Hugh du Puiset, Bishop of Durham. An alternative spelling may be "Gatishevede", as seen in a legal record, dated 1430.
Throughout the Industrial Revolution the population of Gateshead expanded rapidly; between 1801 and 1901 the increase was over 100,000. This expansion resulted in the spread southwards of the town.
In 1854, a catastrophic explosion on the quayside destroyed most of Gateshead's medieval heritage, and caused widespread damage on the Newcastle side of the river.
Sir Joseph Swan lived at Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead from 1869 to 1883, where his experiments led to the invention of the electric light bulb. The house was the first in the world to be wired for domestic electric light.
In 1889 one of the largest employers (Hawks, Crawshay and Sons) closed down and unemployment has since been a burden. Up to the Second World War there were repeated newspaper reports of the unemployed sending deputations to the council to provide work. The depression years of the 1920s and 1930s created even more joblessness and the Team Valley Trading Estate was built in the mid-1930s to alleviate the situation.
In the late noughties, Gateshead Council started to regenerate the town, with the long-term aim of making Gateshead a city. The most extensive transformation occurred in the Quayside, with almost all the structures there being constructed or refurbished in this time.
In the early 2010s, regeneration refocused on the town centre. The £150 million Trinity Square development opened in May 2013, it incorporates student accommodation, a cinema, health centre and shops. It was nominated for the Carbuncle Cup in September 2014. The cup was however awarded to another development which involved Tesco, Woolwich Central.
REFORD GARDENS | LES JARDINS DE METIS
Beautiful flowers at Reford Gardens.
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Photo of a photo taken at ESTEVAN LODGE, REFORD GARDENS, on July 22, 2015.
Mrs Reford leaving the Long Walk. 1934
Mme Reford quittant l'Allée Royale. 1934
Unforgettable Lady!
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From Wikipedia:
Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.
She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.
In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.
During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.
In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.
To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.
Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.
In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)
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LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS
Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.
Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada
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I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
Depression is genetic, a daily struggle to live with.
Today I leave the past in the past and try to live in the now. For a while I tried to bury “Honest” The side of me that says it like it is. Honest is strong yet is still human with strong moments of emotional highs and lows. Today I stand back strong stepping on the lies and grief that time brought my way. I believe strength came to me through Allah first and foremost and then through true friends and family; the ones who have been there through thick and thin. I faced the emotions head on, however tough it was, it was time to face them rather than leaving them to take control.
An Artist must make art like they have to breathe; this has never been as true for me as it is now. Today I take the emotions out of my pores and embed them in this photograph where they will live forever out of my skin.
Hello old friends...
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
Shot after this pipit bathed in the dust for a good 5 minutes. See:
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....from a walk through Oxley Creek Common. Oxley Creek Common is home to a remarkable variety of birds. An experienced observer can find as many as 70 species in one hour of observation during the spring about 10% of all Australia's bird species and several times the diversity one could find walking the suburbs. In the past eleven years over 190 species have been recorded on the Common. (Source: University of Queensland)
Australasian Pipit
Scientific Name: Anthus novaeseelandiae
Description: The Australasian Pipit is a well-camoflaged brown ground-dwelling bird. It has darker brown streaks above, and has pale creamy white stripes on the eyebrows and below the cheeks. The underparts are creamy white, spotted and streaked dark on the breast. The wings and tail are dark brown, with the outermost tail feathers white. The eye is brown and the bill and feet are pale pink-grey. Seen on the ground in open country, this species often wags its tail up and down while foraging. It was previously called Richard's Pipit.
Similar species: The Australasian Pipit resembles the introduced Skylark, Alauda arvensis, and is adapted to a similar ecological niche, with both species being well-camoflaged birds that forage on the ground. The Australasian Pipit lacks the Skylark's small crest and has more creamy white underparts and eyebrows.
Distribution: The Australasian Pipit is found across Australia. It is also found in New Guinea, New Zealand, as well as being widespread across Africa and Asia.
Habitat: Australasian Pipits are found in open country, in a range of habitat types from wet heaths to dry shrublands and open woodland clearings.
Seasonal movements: Some altitudinal migration in winter, and Tasmanian birds move to the mainland.
Feeding: Australasian Pipits feed on the ground on insects and their larvae, as well as seeds. They forage in a jerky, darting motion, stopping to perch on low stones or shrubs, wagging their tails up and down.
Breeding: Australasian Pipits form breeding pairs after an elaborate courtship ritual, with males making swooping dives from a height, accompanied by a sweet trilling song. The nest is a depression in the ground, sometimes sheltered by a grass tussock, stone or piece of wood, and lined with grasses and hairs. The female incubates the eggs and feeds the young.
Minimum Size: 16cm
Maximum Size: 18cm
Average size: 17cm
Average weight: 26g
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Two of the Chesapeake and Indiana's Geeps head south of LaCrosse to grab storage hoppers, across an extremely barren landscape. There was quite an ominous feeling in the air that day...
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Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
Karen Horney
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The unwelcomed passenger.
Sometimes it really helps that I'm also a painter....say for instance when you have a shell and need to paint a giant slug ;) Later on I'll post on my facebook page to show my painted layers of the snail.
This was my favorite display in the museum.
You could sit and listen to one of 3 of Roosevelt's radio addresses as if you were in your kitchen during his presidency.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library & Museum
32nd President of the United States
Hyde Park, NY
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham
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Where do I come from? Where do I go?
What shall I do?
I lost my way…
HKD
Falls Psychologie interessiert:
Thema: Wie löse ich meine Verwirrung auf?
Psychologische Ebene – mystische Ebene.
Verwirrung. Unwissenheit,
Thema:
Niemand sieht die Welt wie sie wirklich ist, es sei denn er sieht sich selbst. Kannst du behaupten, dass du dich kennst? Kennst du die Wurzeln deines Seins?
Weißes Licht bricht sich in alle Farben. Aus einer einzigen Quelle entspringen alle Farben der Palette. Warum sollte Blau Rot davon überzeugen, Blau werden zu wollen? Doch du kannst dich selbst nur als Rot erkennen, wenn du dich über eine Vielzahl anderer Menschen spiegeln lässt.
Doch hüte dich im Gegenzug davor, jemandem von deiner Sicht der Welt überzeugen zu wollen. Blau kann nicht Rot werden. Der Versuch, den anderen Rot zu machen, verstrickt dich in Kämpfe. Diese sorgen für ein hohes Maß an Emotionen und diese wiederum haben die Neigung, deinen Geist abzudunkeln und verwirrt sein zu lassen.
Die Klarheit des Geistes wächst proportional mit der Abnahme der emotionalen Motivationskräfte. Ist die Klarheit des Geistes erreicht, strebt der Yogi die Harmonisierung seiner Gefühlswelt an.
„Der Geist ist der Himmel, die Gefühle sind die Erde.“ Dieser bildlichen Sprache bediente sich ein Alchemist. Und wenn er über die Erlösung aus der Verwirrung des Lebens sprach, verwendete er das Bild der Vereinigung der Gegensätze. Sonne und Mond werden in einem Zeichen zusammengebracht. Analog zu diesem kann jeder Zeit das Yin und Yang Zeichen gesetzt werden, denn auch dieses zeigt die Vereinigung der Gegensätze.
Die gegeneinander kämpfenden gegensätzlichen Prinzipien, deren Streit für alle Verwirrungen verantwortlich ist, können versöhnt oder geschlichtet werden.
Die gegenseitige Anerkennung von Intellekt und Emotion, von Geist und Körper oder eben auch von Himmel und Erde, erlöst das Bewusstsein aus diesem Konflikt, Der Geist hat nicht mehr die Tendenz, der weltlichen Existenz zu fliehen und der Körper muss den Geist nicht mehr durch Schmerzen in die Wirklichkeit des Lebens zwingen. Der Geist bleibt freiwillig und der Körper lässt den Geist frei.
Die Welt, das Leben, der Alltag, das ist die Verkörperung des Geistes. In der Negativität ist diese Verkörperung sehr unangenehm. Negativität entsteht durch Kampf. Durch ein auf Wettbewerb eingestelltes Denken werden Kampf und Negativität forciert. Daher empfehlen alle Religionen Gewaltverzicht.
Durch den Verzicht auf Auseinandersetzung, Gewalt und Rache, kann sich das Bewusstsein aus der Illusion befreien. Diese Befreiung gleicht dem Erwachen aus einem Traum. Die Negativität ist ein „böser Traum“, sie ist das, was in bildlicher Sprache ausgedrückt die Hölle ist.
Um aus der Verwirrung und der Unwissenheit der höllischen Leidenschaften aussteigen zu können, bedarf es der Abkühlung der Emotionen durch die Ausbildung des intellektuellen Verstehens und der Durchdringung der Gefühlswelt mit dem Verstand.
Diese Durchdringung geschieht mit der Hilfe eines Konzeptes.
Ein Konzept ist wie ein Boot mit dem man von einer Seite zur anderen kommen kann. Der Geist lernt, sich selbst zu verstehen. Sobald ich meine Farbe aus dem Spektrum des Lichtes erkenne, kann ich mich aus den unbewussten Kämpfen lösen und Blau einfach so lassen, wie es ist.
Der Übergriffigkeit von Blau auf meine Farbe kann ich mich durch das geschickte Mittel des Rückzugs erwehren. Wenn ich helfe, dass sich Blau selbst erkennt, wird seine Übergriffigkeit sich auflösen. Er wird ein sich selbst schadendes Verhalten zugunsten seines inneren Glücks aufgeben und eine gemeinsame Zeit der Harmonie zwischen Yin und Yang genießen.
Wenn die Gegensätze miteinander im Frieden schwingen, dann erreicht das Zeichen von Yin und Yang seinen harmonischen Ausdruck, den es im Allgemeinen hat.
Das Yin und Yang Zeichen drückt aus meiner Sicht den idealen Zustand eines Yogi aus. Yogis sind Menschen, die auf dem Weg sind, die Gegensätze zu vereinen. Sind die Gegensätze vereint, ist der Yogi kein Yogi mehr. Mit was sollte er sich noch identifizieren?
Die Nicht-Identifikation ist die endgültige Auflösung der Verwirrung. ;-))
HKD
Digital Art – own resources
HKD
The way the tide made the water move around the rocks and vegetation was captivating, but there was a somber quality to this that made me feel slightly depressed. I intentionally underexposed it, but too much so. The moodiness came through, though, and that was what I was going for.
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