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Alright... this one's for Lea:) I was gonna upload this one in a few days, but since I can't send it to her I'm uploading it on here..
I'll get back in order tomorrow.
It looks silly large. My eyes look closed, and my foot's horrible. I don't know if I'll keep it up. But the pointe shoes look really cool, I think, when it's large. So ignore the arabesque.
I'd also like to thank TheLittleSwan for inspiring me to upload dance pictures:)
I know you can't tell by looking but this was taken at a nude beach named Orient Beach. It is hard to beat Siesta Key back home but this was close.
Playlist Song : Freedom at 21 - Jack White
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ-BKq1jc-w
(Yeah)
Cut off the balls of my feet
Made me walk on salt
Take me down to the police
Charge me with assault
Smile on her face
She does what she wants to me
That's right and
She don't care what kind of wounds she's inflicted on me
She don't care what color bruises that she's leavin' on me
'Cuz she's got freedom in the 21st century
(Alright)
(Listen)
Two black gadgets in her hands
All she thinks about
No responsibility no guilt or morals
Cloud her judgement
Smile on her face
She does what she damn well please
(Right)
And she don't care about the things people used to do
She don't care that what she does has an effect on you
She's got freedom in the 21st century
Cut off the balls of my feet (Cut off the balls of my feet)
Make me walk on salt (Make me walk on salt)
Take me down to the police (Take me down to the police)
Done with the 24-105 28mm, F22 and 15s. I was doing shots for my Heidelberg Exposed series, when I drove past this Lowrider and saw the shine of the rims. I parked the car right infront of it leaving the headlights on and shot this from a very low tripod almost lying on the sidewalk. Good thing it is summer :)
There was a "freedom rally" in Whitehorse today. It looked like hundreds of cars and trucks driving a circuit around the city with horns blazing, flags waving, and signs on plain display telling the government to end lockdowns, and vaccine mandates. The people involved generally seemed pretty upbeat, and positive.
This photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro.
These are not our pictures! They all come from the group: Protest Egypt 2011
1. Cairo demonstration NYC 2.1.11, 2. 28th of January - "The Day of Rage", 3. Revolution_-79, 4. F*** Mubarak, 5. "I'm in front of the tank!", 6. Demonstration after the Friday prayer (28.01.2011), 7. Untitled, 8. Free Egypt - Worth Fighting For..., 9. Revolution_-69, 10. The messages on Tahrir Square, 11. Protest on Tahrir, 12. Downtown Cairo, 13. Protest on Tahrir
“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! ”
-Richard Bach
Étretat, Normandie, France
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Tanta gente anhela que esa libertad de las aves también estuviera en sus políticos, jueces, jefes, vidas... y no se movieran marcadas por lo que unos pocos ordenan y rigen.
New Forest: up early today, hopes of sunshine, got clouds and heavy rain insted, but how wonderful when the rain forced me to shelter in a holly wood, I was so lucky to find these deer: deep in the wood, always a step ahead of me , but the wonder was the deeper we got the more deer we met along the way, I took care not to disturb them and managed to get closer than I ever have before, a couple of times I got too close for them & they moved on, a marvellous adventure despite the fact my camera spent much of the time tucked in my jacket, it poured for the two hours I was out, but apart from the rain drops threatening the camera I didnt notice, I was too full of wonder & gratitude for the experience.
Location:
GSK World Headquarters
16th and Vine Streets, Philadelphia, PA
Zenos’ statement about his vision of the sculpture
I wanted to create a sculpture almost anyone, regardless of their background, could look at and instantly recognize that it is about the idea of struggling to break free. This sculpture is about the struggle for achievement of freedom through the creative process.
Although for me, this feeling sprang from a particular personal situation, I was conscious that it was a universal desire with almost everyone; that need to escape from some situation – be it an internal struggle or an adversarial circumstance, and to be free from it.
I began this work in a very traditional sculptural manner by creating a small model in clay called a macquette. The purpose of beginning in this manner is to capture the large action and major proportions of the figure within the overall design without any details to detract from the big idea. Another reason for not having details and for working on a small model only a few inches in height is that the small armature within it, holding the clay, is more easily manipulated, allowing for much greater flexibility in developing a concept. For example, an arm, a leg or a head can be pushed around without any concern for obliterating details, such as a nose or a finger.
The macquette is the original mass of clay where a concept is born and from which it grows and develops. This was important later when I enlarged the sculpture from several inches long to 20 feet long, and I retained in the larger work a sense that all the conceptual material, its forms, focus and development sprang from this rough idea. The work metamorphosized, in the way that we do.
Although there are four figures represented, the work is really one figure moving from left to right. The composition develops from left to right beginning with a kind of mummy/death like captive figure locked into its background. In the second frame, the figure, reminiscent of Michaelangelo’s Rebellious Slave, begins to stir and struggle to escape. The figure in the third frame has torn himself from the wall that held him captive and is stepping out, reaching for freedom. In the fourth frame, the figure is entirely free, victorious, arms outstretched, completely away from the wall and from the grave space he left behind. He evokes an escape from his own mortality.
In working on the large scale sculpture, I was satisfied that those who drove by getting a quick look at it would see the big picture: that it was about escape. I was also concerned that those who worked in the building and who passed the sculpture frequently would have something more to see. There was a lot of empty space between the figures on the wall, which I saw as an opportunity to develop further ideas.
It was important to me that the sculpture have more than one theme going on at once. One of the other major ideas incorporated in the work is that the very process of creating the sculpture is clearly revealed in the work itself. The maquette is cast into the sculpture in the lower left hand corner. In the lower right corner is the cast of the sculptor’s hand holding the sculpture tool with two rolls of clay also cast in bronze. Throughout the background of the Wall, I have rolled out the clay and pressed it with my fingers so that my fingerprints are all over the sculpture. I have not hidden how I have made the piece. In fact, the whole idea of the macquette is enlarged so that all the figures in the background look like a giant macquette. And at the same time, as the figures move from left to right, I have shown how figures are developed when you are sculpting from the rough to the more finished product.
Elements of the sculpture trade beside the tools that are cast into the sculpture are calipers both for their use in measuring and their reference to Protagoras’ words “Man is the measure of all things.”
Also cast into the sculpture is an anatomical man, traditionally used as a reference by sculptors. Many of the heads and figures on the wall, some in the round and some in relief, are shown partially sculpted, revealing the process of creation.
Something else I have done with the sculpture is that I have created a one man show of my work. I have always admired Rodin’s Gates of Hell. I similarly thought I would incorporate many sculptures into the wall where it was suitable.
Like T.S. Eliot and other artists, I have put many personal elements in my work. My friend Philip, a sculptor who died of AIDS, created a work that I included in Freedom because he often expressed his wish to have it in a public space. He did not live long enough to accomplish this himself. My cat, who lived with me for 20 years, my mother, father, and my self portrait are in the work. It is obvious which face is mine because there is a ballooned phrase coming from my mouth with the word “freedom”, written backwards, making it clear that the face was sculpted in a mirror. I see the whole Wall sculpture as a kind of illusion akin to Alice’s Through the Looking Glass.
The sculpture contains an original Duane Hanson -- a bronze cast of my own hands that Duane cast for me as a gift.
Much of what I did with this sculpture has to do with taking traditional forms and combining them in non-traditional ways, forming a postmodern sensibility. For example, I dropped a wax cast of my father’s bust from two or three feet in height so that it broke into large pieces. I cast those into the wall in a fractured manner over another face, an old work I found in a vat of clay purchased from a sculptor who had long ago died.
I have hidden many things in the background for people who see the sculpture more than once to discover, such as a cast of coins – a nickel and two pennies, another nickel and two pennies, and two quarters and a penny. These represent not only the relationship between money and art, but the numerals 7-7-51, my birth date.
It is important to me that the public interact with the sculpture, not just intellectually and emotionally but physically. I have created a space in which I have written “stand here” so that people can place themselves inside the sculpture and become part of the composition.
In the end, this sculpture is a statement about the artist’s attempt to free himself from the constraints of mortality through a long lasting creative form.
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Krista provided 4 coloured fabrics and Kona Snow. I chose to use only 3 and raw edge appliqué one of the lovely butterflies in the middle, as they were too big to be shown in this block otherwise :)
Hope you like your block, Krista!
Posted for this week's Flickr Friday theme #ThingsMoneyCannotBuy
Memorial Day in the U.S. is approaching to remember those who sacrificed their lives for freedom. Something that money cannot buy.
Only a few days old, and already Azzari gives his mother "the headaches"!
Avanti wants to keep her foal close to her, but Azzari is constantly running in every direction, curiously examining everything it encounters (even testing out the electric fencing), with never ending enthusiasm. You can see he is celebrating life, and enjoys using his body to the max! Just have a look at those overdimensioned, powerful legs...
When we put him in the stable, he almost falls over, and then goes to sleep for a relative long time... He is sooo awesome...
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sit-in di protesta contro la repressione violenta delle manifestazioni pacifiche in Birmania indetto da Amnesty International - Ambasciata di Myanmar
Roma 28 settembre 2007