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Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. — Shunryu Suzuki.
Rowboats work, too.
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.“
Eric Fromm, the art of loving. In the center of the flower if the color is yellow it is still to be pollinated.. If it’s red it has already been pollinated. This one is somewhere in between. Smile
What is it about metaphor that weaves the mind more tightly into the fabric of reality? In a sense, reality is metaphor: remember that in the distant past people saw all things as both material and spiritual and considered the two modes of being to penetrate each other. Metaphor comes from the Greek word meaning “to transfer.” Conceptually speaking, a metaphor is a bridge linking two distinct things that mean the same thing. We humans are somehow built to know the world through metaphor.
--Rod Dreher, Living in wonder : finding mystery and meaning in a secular age / Rod Dreher.
This contemporary work is a movement exploration that investigates the relationship between movements, rhythm and tempo. Through the research, movement metaphors emerge that question relationship, trust, leadership and community.
In Greek mythology, Styx is a river that forms the boundary between Earth (Gaia) and the Underworld. The ferryman Charon is sometimes described as having transported the souls of the newly dead across this river into the Underworld. According to some legends, the river Styx had miraculous powers which could make someone who bathed in the waters invulnerable. It is said that Achilles' mother dipped him in the river during his childhood and he thus acquired invulnerability, with the exception of the heel by which his mother held him. Achilles was struck and killed during the Trojan War by an arrow shot into his heel by Paris. This is the source of the expression "Achilles' heel", a metaphor for a vulnerable spot.
This is not the river Stxy, but an oxbow lake of the Danube.
Text adapted from Wikipedia.
In Explore 2/4/2022
Burnaby Mountain, Burnaby, BC.
I've recently come to understand the amount of time you spend on an edit does not dictate how good that image will ultimately be. Some require more work, some less, but in the end each one will succeed or fail on it's own merits... there's a metaphor for life somewhere in there.
I'm also just beginning to appreciate how much there is I don't know, how much more I need and want to learn, and how much growth I have yet to do. We are at our core an incomplete project, capable of change, growth, and betterment. I've been stalled for a few years, but I'm ready now to resume the trek up the mountain of personal growth.
Jules Adolphe Breton ~ French
Reproduced using various softwares including Topaz
Breton was interested in themes of social realism.
Many of his paintings, like this one, show peasants working in the fields.
The sunset, as well as the activity of gleaning, the final gathering of remnants of wheat that marks the end of the harvest, can be seen as a metaphor for the passage of time.
Breton’s inclusion of a young girl, a mature woman, and an elderly gleaner reinforce this theme.
Own image 2456 photographed from The Huntington Art Collections-European Art from the 15th to the early 20th century.