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Church of St. Peter, Portovenere, Italy
It is a Roman Catholic church from the 12th century, located in the famous Gulf of Poets (nearby is Byron's Cave, where the poet Byron used to swim) in the province of La Spezia.
The church sits on the tip of a rocky promontory, where once was the site of a Temple to Venus (Venere in Italian), after whom Portovenere was named.
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ÊTRE PRÉSENT AU MONDE
J’ai fait le plein de naïveté,
Celle qui nous rapproche des évidences premières,
Les beautés naturelles.
Et je suis parti sur les sentiers des grandes prairies, sans projet précis.
Sauf celui d’assumer ma présence au monde.
Ici, le vent, libre de tout entrave,
Fait entendre un murmure fusionnel (le bruit blanc) qui nous aspire en lui.
La nuit venue, l’immensité inégalée du ciel étoilé, transporte l’observateur dans une autre dimension… inhumaine, insaisissable, merveilleuse, cosmique.
Confronté au non-humain, on se fait petit et interrogatif : « Et si nous étions seuls? Vu de là-bas, que sommes-nous? Y a t-il, en nous, une mémoire de nos origines?
J’aurais pu traverser les forêts anciennes, longer les rivages océaniques…
Partout les beautés naturelles engendrent une expérience physiologique et métaphysique qui pénètre la conscience, par tous les sens…
…La rendant plus « présente » au monde naturel, cette capacité atrophiée par l’univers artificiel que la modernité a érigé.
En soi, ces expériences ne changent rien à ce qui va mal sur cette planète.
Mais elles pourraient changer la façon avec laquelle chacun comprendra les enjeux et y répondra en toute conscience. *
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Patrice Photographiste, Chroniques du Monde de Poësia
Inspiré de : Heidi Barr, écrivaine américaine et de Alexandre Lacroix, philosophe, « Devant la beauté de la Nature »
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BE PRESENT TO THE WORLD
I filled up with naivety,
The one that brings us closer to the first evidences,
Natural beauties.
And I set off on the trails of the great prairies, without a specific project,
Except that of assuming my presence in the world.
Here, the wind, free from all hindrances
Makes hear a white noise that sucks us into it.
At nightfall, the unequaled immensity of the starry sky transports the observer to another dimension... inhuman, elusive, marvellous, and cosmic.
Confronted with the non-human, we become small and questioning: “And if we were alone? Seen from there, what are we? Is there, in us, a memory of our origins?
I could have crossed ancient forests, going along the ocean shores…
Everywhere, natural beauty generates a physiological and metaphysical experience that penetrates the consciousness, through all the senses...
…Making it more “present” to the natural world, this capacity atrophied by the artificial universe that modernity has erected.
By themselves, these experiences won’t change what’s wrong on this planet.
But they could change the way everyone understands the issues and responds to them in good conscience. *
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Patrice Photographiste, Chronicles of the Lands of Poësia
Inspired by: Heidi Barr, American writer and Alexandre Lacroix, philosopher, “Devant la beauté de la nature”
Long exposure that turns people into ghosts. The checkerboard square becomes a metaphysical space – the seated figures are solid, the moving figures are dissolved. It is a meditation on time as stratification: those who stand still leave traces, those who move disappear. There is a deep melancholy in this photo – it almost seems like a memory, not a present. Fog or gray sky above adds a sense of temporal suspension.
Metaphysical Painting or SL sunset02
Homage to Rene Magritte.
For [Visions of Surreal]
If you have free time. Please visit this exhibition.
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Blip Mumfuzz
CherryCarr
LeanaJuline
Mareea Farrasco
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Shakespeare
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Taxi
As the marvelously metaphysical Monkees once said in a very different context, "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday"... ;-)
Model: Skye McLeod Fairywren
Female Robot Avatar: Frost Kit (FK!)
Headpiece: Lily (ice) by
Riding Horse by Water Horse with iHorse Robot mod & cyber saddle & bridle (with ao) by JINX
SIM: Echoes, Metaphysics of frequencies @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA24/131/175/24
Created for The Dark Side of the Light Contest 9 - Signs and Portents: www.flickr.com/groups/thedarksideofthelight/discuss/72157...
Created for The Blind Pig Speakeasy Haunted House activity thread: www.flickr.com/groups/photopigs/discuss/72157647106658699/
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“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…
they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…
they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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Metaphysical Painting or SL sunset01
Homage to G De Chirico.
For [Visions of Surreal]
If you have free time. Please visit this exhibition.
IMAGO Art Gallery Presents
[Visions of Surreal]
—Artists—
Blip Mumfuzz
CherryCarr
LeanaJuline
Mareea Farrasco
Micky Siamendes
nekonuko Nakamori
Shakespeare
The Wolf FR
tutsy Navarathna
Taxi
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
Unusual for me to take a photo, process it and post it within 24 hours but I did with this! (do I hear rapturous applause? - no, thought not! hehe)
It's a scene from Stanton Moor in the north of the peak district, a lovely serene place with a real feel feel for ancient history, stone circle, standing stones, burial mounds, etc - and lots of Birch woodland.
This is two side by side shots stitched together and Andyfied - various blurring techniques then I made two copies, slightly bloated one and then merged the two slightly to give it a nice hallucinogenic feel. Finally, two copies again, one colour and and one B&W with a top to bottom merge at reduced transparency just to make sure you see the LSD goblins chasing around!
Does life imitate art?
[On the canvas: "Le muse inquietanti" (The Disquieting Muses) by Giorgio De Chirico]
Looking up, a deep philoshophical, spiritual and metaphysical act, tearing apart the very essence of one's existence...
Location, Lemnos island, Hellas.
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Ligurian sea (Italy)
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Mingun - Hsinphyumae o Myatheindan pagoda
La pagoda bianca costruita nel 1816 in uno stile architettonico che richiama il mitico Monte Meru, la montagna sacra della cosmologia Induista, Jainista e Buddista, considerata il centro dell'universo fisico, metafisico e spirituale.
Mingun - Hsinphyumae o Myatheindan pagoda
The white Pagoda, built in 1816 with a distinctive architectural style modelled after the mythical Mount Meru, the sacred mountain in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist cosmology considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.
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La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
Created with Bryce...pretty cool what you can do with one textured, reflective sphere, one textured taurus and one light!!=0)
A view of the Gulf of Trieste, with the futuristic sailing ship SY A at anchor.
www.vesselfinder.com/it/vessels/details/1012141
Colpo d occhio sul golfo di Trieste, che ospita l'avveniristico veliero SY A ancorato in rada.
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La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
The mountain range known around here as the Crazies is prominent in this image (All those very, very tiny black dots scattered around the hills in the mid-ground are black angus cattle grazing on prime Montana range land…). The highest point in this range is Crazy Peak at over 11,000 feet — these mountains dominate their surroundings and are plainly visible just north of Interstate 90 as you travel between Billings and Bozeman.
The name Crazy Mountains is said to be a shortened form of the name "Crazy Woman Mountains" given them, in recognition of their original Crow native american name, after a woman who went insane and lived in them after her family was killed in the westward settlement movement.
The Crow people called the mountains Awaxaawapìa Pìa, roughly translated as "Ominous Mountains", or even rougher and less accurately, "Crazy Mountains". They were famous to the Crow people for having metaphysical powers and being unpredictable—a place often used for vision quests...
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
Sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.
This very accurately describes my thoughts as I viewed this scene at the end of my first visit to Yellowstone.