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The ancient Clapper at Postbridge, Dartmoor, is overarched by the Milky Way and some more modern phenomena including the lights from the ISS, a plane and in the top left corner a tandem satellite. Amazing how a little light goes a long way.
Postbridge, Dartmoor National Park, SW England
Radio news excerpt, December 1924:
"The identity of the mysterious street vigilante dubbed "The Purple Shadow" remains unknown! After bringing the opium smuggling side hustle of the head of the powerful Boxer's association to light, the vigilante seems to be aiming for night clubs next! Witnesses reported seeing a "demon-like figure" on the rooftops of several dubious establishments-"
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Been meaning to create an original vigilante character set in the 1920s/30s for some time now. All of these characters and the accompanying "story" were created on a whim without any sort of overarching narrative in mind.
Inspirations include: Spring-heeled Jack; "Babylon Berlin" a TV series & "Lavender Jack", a webcomic
- December 2022
Having Anna in the studio couldn’t have been more inspiring. I think we both deal with similar human desires, abysses, and mental uncertainties.
"short films – …and then we‘ll call it even"
In the silent arena of our minds, where thoughts dance like invisible actors, a profound equality among us all is revealed. These inner conflicts, which do not manifest themselves in the outside world, are the invisible threads that weave the fabric of human existence. They are the silent struggles that each of us, regardless of gender or external circumstances, wages in the depths of our souls. These inner struggles are not mere challenges, but essential components of human existence that initiate us into the mysteries of life.
Every person faces their own inner battles, which are unique in their intensity and significance. These psychological struggles cannot be compared, as they are an expression of each individual's journey through the depths of consciousness. They are the touchstones that shape us and lead us to explore the limits of our being. Overcoming these inner conflicts holds the possibility of growth, transformation, and enlightenment.
The pursuit of overcoming these inner struggles is a deeply personal and often solitary journey. It challenges us to look into the darkness within ourselves and find the glimmers of light that guide us. In this inner argument lies the chance to discover the essence of our being and strengthen the connection to our true self. Thus, these inner conflicts are not only tests, but also invitations to self-knowledge and spiritual development.
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I kept this series practically closed as a self-portrait series for a very long time. I think it’s time to open it up and at the same time connect it to my overarching theme, the portraits.
As a rule, these are long exposure shots with exposure times varying between 2 and 30 seconds. In this case 2 seconds. They are series that deal with a range of human feelings and thoughts. They deal with desire, loss, regret and pain and the attempt to process all of this.
Perched at the corner of Washington Square and Michigan Avenue, the bank is a clear favorite amongst architectural enthusiasts for its design. Just below the second story windows, the words “The Oldest Bank in the City of Lansing” are prominently engraved into the east-facing side.
Inside the bank also hangs a depiction of a 19th century dentist, amongst other engravings, because there used to be medical offices housed there. When considered communally, these reliefs and statues have an overarching theme.
Comerica Bank Building, formerly the City National Building, are examples of the art deco style that is highly visible in downtown Lansing. 106
This time, I was in the studio with Andre, who contacted me after seeing a few of my posts of this series and wanted to participate in this project. And once again, this shoot produced some incredibly powerful images. I am completely fascinated by the depth created by the different personalities in front of the lens and the length of the exposure time. And because today is World Photography Day, there will be two posts for once.
"short films – …and then we‘ll call it even"
In the silent arena of our minds, where thoughts dance like invisible actors, a profound equality among us all is revealed. These inner conflicts, which do not manifest themselves in the outside world, are the invisible threads that weave the fabric of human existence. They are the silent struggles that each of us, regardless of gender or external circumstances, wages in the depths of our souls. These inner struggles are not mere challenges, but essential components of human existence that initiate us into the mysteries of life.
Every person faces their own inner battles, which are unique in their intensity and significance. These psychological struggles cannot be compared, as they are an expression of each individual's journey through the depths of consciousness. They are the touchstones that shape us and lead us to explore the limits of our being. Overcoming these inner conflicts holds the possibility of growth, transformation, and enlightenment.
The pursuit of overcoming these inner struggles is a deeply personal and often solitary journey. It challenges us to look into the darkness within ourselves and find the glimmers of light that guide us. In this inner argument lies the chance to discover the essence of our being and strengthen the connection to our true self. Thus, these inner conflicts are not only tests, but also invitations to self-knowledge and spiritual development.
youtu.be/uQJq-WJXUAU?si=f5nY0bME9g-D1vAr
I kept this series practically closed as a self-portrait series for a very long time. I think it’s time to open it up and at the same time connect it to my overarching theme, the portraits.
As a rule, these are long exposure shots with exposure times varying between 2 and 30 seconds. In this case 4 seconds. They are series that deal with a range of human feelings and thoughts. They deal with desire, loss, regret and pain and the attempt to process all of this.
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The current steel Truss bridge was built in 1911 by Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company of Darlington, England
The art work on the bridge by Eldon Garnet consisted of a clock, which ceased to work and the mechanism and hands were removed in 2010. The phrase "this river I step in is not the river I stand in", taken from the philosophy of Heraclitus, is inscribed in large letters overarching the road. The bridge art is one part of a three site art piece, with the second part as words inscribed on the pavement at the intersections of Broadview avenue and Queen street, and the last part as four metal "banners" at Queen and Degrassi street - wikipedia
60055 leads the return leg of BLS “Capital Campaigner” over the very ornate Ouse Valley Viaduct near Balcombe, 1Z53 1748 Hove-Derby.
The chaos of life is filled with knots ant diversions,
splits and support.
Tension can pull us taught
or the path can reveal multiple divergences.
What's right in front of you
can be a tangled mess.
While your overarching direction
fades into the mist.
- a fragment
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Austria, Burgenland, Stegersbach, Golf-Rollators at sunset over golf course 2, from the terrace restaurant “Pura Vida”,
Reiters Golfschaukel, Austria‘s largest golf resort, the “Golfschaukel” Stegersbach Lafnitztal consists of two overarching 18-hole courses & a 9-hole course.
Two driving ranges, pitching & putting greens & a chipping area.
In addition, there is also a 5-hole Fun Course for newcomers, who have not yet got their course licence. Together these make the 50-hole Golfschaukel Austria’s biggest golfing venue.
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Excerpt from thewelltoronto.com/arts/dustin-yellin-emergence/:
Emergence
2023
Emergence by Dustin Yellin braids together three threads–the origin of the universe, the birth of life, and the creation of computing. The sculpture depicts a giant figure modeled from the World Tree, a mythological concept found across multiple cultures that connects the Earth to the stars. Mirroring various evolutionary hypotheses, Emergence grows out of a base plate that represents a primordial soup from which all life on Earth developed. Various vignettes and fantastical elements are scattered throughout the figure’s body: a cat with the rear of a dog stares into a toilet to see its reflection like Narcissus; an astronaut chick hatches out of a geodesic sphere; a battery-operated frog licks a Black Hole in the form of a bagel; a monkey emerges from a monkey brain held up by a large-lipped rotisserie chicken; hybrid animal/human astronauts explore the entire scene from top to bottom, making their way up to the moon.
Included among these surrealist details are many elements relating to the sculpture’s overarching themes of cosmology, mythology, and technology, interspersed with nods to Ontario, such as local flora and fauna, and major Canadian inventions. These many details add up to tell various stories of how small things come together to form more complex systems. Like an open-source code, these stories are not determined, and visitors are encouraged to decipher the artwork and construct their own narratives. More details catch the eye the longer one looks – discover the meaning behind each element by accessing the Emergence Discovery Handbook.
Excerpt from thewelltoronto.com/arts/dustin-yellin-emergence/:
Emergence
2023
Emergence by Dustin Yellin braids together three threads–the origin of the universe, the birth of life, and the creation of computing. The sculpture depicts a giant figure modeled from the World Tree, a mythological concept found across multiple cultures that connects the Earth to the stars. Mirroring various evolutionary hypotheses, Emergence grows out of a base plate that represents a primordial soup from which all life on Earth developed. Various vignettes and fantastical elements are scattered throughout the figure’s body: a cat with the rear of a dog stares into a toilet to see its reflection like Narcissus; an astronaut chick hatches out of a geodesic sphere; a battery-operated frog licks a Black Hole in the form of a bagel; a monkey emerges from a monkey brain held up by a large-lipped rotisserie chicken; hybrid animal/human astronauts explore the entire scene from top to bottom, making their way up to the moon.
Included among these surrealist details are many elements relating to the sculpture’s overarching themes of cosmology, mythology, and technology, interspersed with nods to Ontario, such as local flora and fauna, and major Canadian inventions. These many details add up to tell various stories of how small things come together to form more complex systems. Like an open-source code, these stories are not determined, and visitors are encouraged to decipher the artwork and construct their own narratives. More details catch the eye the longer one looks – discover the meaning behind each element by accessing the Emergence Discovery Handbook.
Treasure Chest is a new Fantasy, Steampunk, Post Apocalyptic, and Sci-Fi roleplay subscription box event intended to facilitate original content designers to work together instead of in competition with one another to create a successful and profitable event for everyone. We're coming into our fourth round and have just introduced overarching concepts or themes to each round of the chest.
We are currently looking for a couple more brands to complete our designer lineup for the February round of Treasure Chest. For more information Contact Nicolias Sadoul or Anderian Sugarplum inworld.
Digital art image to mourn for Death, the death ensued from the head-on collision of trains on the last day of February 2023 near the valley Tempē, Greece.
Shot inspired by the poem lines:
❝…that stand on the Bridge Overarching
the Silent River of Death ?❞
—HW Longfellow
Within the body of a liquid, the forces of adjoining molecules cancel each other out. But on the surface, there is no attractive force from above so there is a net inward force. This inward force causes surface molecules to contract and resist being stretched or broken so when an object is on the surface, the surface tension acts like an elastic membrane. Small insects like water striders can walk on water because their weight is not enough to penetrate the surface.
Founder's Pool, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Those who support a revolution should know that revolution is simply transfer of power. Those who support reforms should know that a reform is correction of abuses. Numerous revolutions all over history have caused more damage and in return brought about far less social change than that brought about by overarching reforms. One can see the example of people like Kemal Ataturk in Turkey or Park Chung-Hee in South Korea and study in detail the impact they made on their nations and decide for themselves that does Pakistan really need a revolution at this point in time.
Excerpt taken from the article Does Pakistan really need a revolution?
By Farhan Ahmed Shah
Published: April 4, 2012
To read more please click on the link below
tribune.com.pk/story/359219/does-pakistan-really-need-a-r...
Memorial Day is a celebrated holiday in the Unities States where people celebrate and remember the lives of those who served in the armed forces.
Which leads me to another photograph of the candlelight vigil at the Trans Rights protest I attended in which the lives lost in the LGBTQ community were remembered and I'll explain why.
Over time, with the US military, our government has been a little more accepting of people with different sexual orientations and gender identities but our current administration-both Trump and Pence, are incredibly hateful and ignorant of the discrimination and danger that the LGBTQ community is constantly under in America and that this is a valid human rights issue demanding legislative protections.
I want to pose a question to all Americans as well as all conscientious people in the world who care about human rights: What good are these overarching concepts of freedom when they do not apply to all people? This is not a freedom I can believe in. It is a selective discrimination based on the luck of being heterosexual, or white, or able bodied, or male, or born into wealth. This is not the America I want to live in and, though not all soldiers agree with me, I have to say that I don't think the selective freedom is all that worth fighting for. It is far more noble to honor all people. It redeems us as humans.
If you have been watching the news of what is happening in America, you'll see our country is still struggling with a rise in hate crimes. Although the more recent ones have focused on Islamophobia, news stories about those killed for being trans have been under-reported or buried amongst the constant stream of reporting on the insanity of the Trump administration.
This year alone, the following people in America have been killed for being trans. They exercised their freedom to change their bodies, when they felt they were literally born as the wrong gender and they were killed for it. Many of them were also minorities. We could have learned and loved with these people and become better humans. Now, they are gone and we have lost a part of ourselves too. :
Mesha Caldwell
Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow
Jojo Striker
Tiara Lashaytheboss Richmond
Jaquarrius Holland
Chyna Doll Dupree
Ciara McEween
Alphonza Watson
Chayviss Reed
Brenda Bostick
Sherrell Faulkner
Let us remember them. Let us say their names. Let us make sure the violence stops.
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Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, in South Yorkshire, England. The building has more than 300 rooms, covers an area of more than 2.5 acres (1.0 ha), and is surrounded by a 180-acre (73 ha) park and an estate of 15,000 acres (6,100 ha). The east front pictured here, at 618 feet (188 m) in length, has the longest façade of any country house in the UK.
The original Jacobean house was rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham (1693–1750), and vastly expanded by his son, the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established Wentworth Woodhouse as a Whig centre of influence. In the 18th century, the house was inherited by the Earls Fitzwilliam and the family of the last earl owned it until 1989.
In July 1912, King George V and Queen Mary visited South Yorkshire and stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse for four days. The royal visit concluded on the evening of 11 July with a crowd of 25,000 gathered on the lawn to witness the King and Queen on the balcony of the portico, from which the King gave a speech.
Today, this magnificent house, its beautiful grounds and great stable complex are in a critical state of decay. Wentworth Woodhouse was in the heart of the Yorkshire coal field and in 1947 the government decreed that coal should be mined to within a hundred yards of the house in great open pits. From that moment, the long process of decline set in. Over the following decades the house was leased to the Local Authority, occupied as a college and saw most of its contents dispersed. In 1989 it was sold, and since then successive owners have been unable to keep pace with its restoration and maintenance.
In 2014 the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust was established with the overarching purpose of securing the future of the house for the benefit of the nation. A government grant of £7.6 million allowed Trustees to proceed with the purchase of the building in 2017 and begin the long process of protection, preservation and restoration which will continue for many years.
For more info: wentworthwoodhouse.org.uk/
This moc was built for the second round of the 2017 bio-cup. The overarching theme was historical and my sub theme was western.
This lovely Rhododendron seems almost hidden by the overarching green of spring leaves with a backdrop of somber tall, dark Gum trees.
Dandenong Ranges National Park (Formerly the National Rhododendron Gardens). The day was overcast with occasional gleams of sunshine, but so wonderful to get out and walk after our long COVID-19 lockdown.
Excerpt from thewelltoronto.com/arts/dustin-yellin-emergence/:
Emergence
2023
Emergence by Dustin Yellin braids together three threads–the origin of the universe, the birth of life, and the creation of computing. The sculpture depicts a giant figure modeled from the World Tree, a mythological concept found across multiple cultures that connects the Earth to the stars. Mirroring various evolutionary hypotheses, Emergence grows out of a base plate that represents a primordial soup from which all life on Earth developed. Various vignettes and fantastical elements are scattered throughout the figure’s body: a cat with the rear of a dog stares into a toilet to see its reflection like Narcissus; an astronaut chick hatches out of a geodesic sphere; a battery-operated frog licks a Black Hole in the form of a bagel; a monkey emerges from a monkey brain held up by a large-lipped rotisserie chicken; hybrid animal/human astronauts explore the entire scene from top to bottom, making their way up to the moon.
Included among these surrealist details are many elements relating to the sculpture’s overarching themes of cosmology, mythology, and technology, interspersed with nods to Ontario, such as local flora and fauna, and major Canadian inventions. These many details add up to tell various stories of how small things come together to form more complex systems. Like an open-source code, these stories are not determined, and visitors are encouraged to decipher the artwork and construct their own narratives. More details catch the eye the longer one looks – discover the meaning behind each element by accessing the Emergence Discovery Handbook.
I dreamt I cast an overarching path
Of coloured scales
Thriving on the solar rays that play upon
The waning of the storm
....
Excerpt from thewelltoronto.com/arts/dustin-yellin-emergence/:
Emergence
2023
Emergence by Dustin Yellin braids together three threads–the origin of the universe, the birth of life, and the creation of computing. The sculpture depicts a giant figure modeled from the World Tree, a mythological concept found across multiple cultures that connects the Earth to the stars. Mirroring various evolutionary hypotheses, Emergence grows out of a base plate that represents a primordial soup from which all life on Earth developed. Various vignettes and fantastical elements are scattered throughout the figure’s body: a cat with the rear of a dog stares into a toilet to see its reflection like Narcissus; an astronaut chick hatches out of a geodesic sphere; a battery-operated frog licks a Black Hole in the form of a bagel; a monkey emerges from a monkey brain held up by a large-lipped rotisserie chicken; hybrid animal/human astronauts explore the entire scene from top to bottom, making their way up to the moon.
Included among these surrealist details are many elements relating to the sculpture’s overarching themes of cosmology, mythology, and technology, interspersed with nods to Ontario, such as local flora and fauna, and major Canadian inventions. These many details add up to tell various stories of how small things come together to form more complex systems. Like an open-source code, these stories are not determined, and visitors are encouraged to decipher the artwork and construct their own narratives. More details catch the eye the longer one looks – discover the meaning behind each element by accessing the Emergence Discovery Handbook.
The tall Bearded Iris 'Chantilly’.
Ruffled and feminine flowers, they are a very pretty orchid pink which blends into a pale yellow. The petals are crimped along their edges.
The Iris flower is of interest as an example of the relation between flowering plants and pollinating insects.
The shape of the flower and the position of the pollen-receiving and stigmatic surfaces on the outer petals form a landing-stage for a flying insect, which in probing for nectar, will first come into contact with the perianth, then with the stigmatic stamens in one whorled surface which is borne on an ovary formed of three carpels.
The shelf-like transverse projection on the inner whorled underside of the stamens is beneath the overarching style arm below the stigma, so that the insect comes in contact with its pollen-covered surface only after passing the stigma; in backing out of the flower it will come in contact only with the non-receptive lower face of the stigma.
Thus, an insect bearing pollen from one flower will, in entering a second, deposit the pollen on the stigma; in backing out of a flower, the pollen which it bears will not be rubbed off on the stigma of the same flower.
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America's Favorite Racist Tourist Trap, South of the Border, does wonders with fiberglass and paint. Not sure what any of these animals have to do with the overarching theme of the place, but whatever.
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The current steel Truss bridge was built in 1911 by Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company of Darlington, England
The art work on the bridge by Eldon Garnet consisted of a clock, which ceased to work and the mechanism and hands were removed in 2010. The phrase "this river I step in is not the river I stand in", taken from the philosophy of Heraclitus, is inscribed in large letters overarching the road. The bridge art is one part of a three site art piece, with the second part as words inscribed on the pavement at the intersections of Broadview avenue and Queen street, and the last part as four metal "banners" at Queen and Degrassi street - wikipedia
First time for a while that I've got a shot with the phantom 3 drone, but it was such a lovely evening the other day and I had some free time, so I took it for a little fly over the oilseed fields I had spotted during my lunch break.
Maximalism doesn't have any kind of definition, so I decided to opt for a frame full of interest with a single overarching colour tone pushed to it's maximum.
Week 19 - Maximalism
My stream has been decidedly monochrome of late. That hasn't really been a conscious decision since I don't post to Flickr with any overarching strategy. In fact, I try to be decidedly nonstrategic on here. Flickr is my place just to post what I want to post, regardless of rhyme or reason. But I have noticed it has been a bit lacking in color. Partially that is because I have been spending a bunch of time in snowy forests and they lend themselves well to black and white. Part of it has also been the past few years have seen me shift at a glacial pace toward being more balanced between the use of color or b&w film.
But the holiday season is one of color and I am certainly not ignorant of that. I did get out Christmas night in fact for a bit of photography. It was also the last night for a year that the Convention Center towers would be lit up with their holiday theme and I wanted at least an image or two of them. For all my snowy forest hikes, I had not spent much time in the city making photos (with anything other than my eyes), so this was my remedy to that deficiency.
It had also been a short while since I had used my Flexbody. It has sat largely unused since my trip back east to Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. There have been day trips since but none of them left me with inspiration to take it along, favoring my other cameras instead.
When it comes to tilt and swing photography though I have long been fascinated by the idea of motion moving across, into or out of that plane of focus. It all goes back to a Michael Kenna image I saw where he did a tilted, long exposure of moonrise. Since then I have been on the lookout for how to combine that tilted plane of focus with motion. The presence of light trails from traffic here gave me some ideas to explore.
Hasselblad Flexbody
Kodak Portra 400
So you all know that normally, I’ll re-read the issue that I’m covering and write up a joke-y narrative making fun of how stupid and fun it all is right?
Well hey, if you wanna know about this book, just go watch the first twenty minutes of the 2008 Iron Man movie because it’s literally just that almost beat for beat, with a few less derived and unbacked scientific terms tied to hokey tech :P
But really though, there’s not much to make fun of with this old issue (and trust me, I tried). It’s solid all the way through. There’s even an overarching story featuring a vague 60s Marvel archetype villain and Tony redeeming himself from his weapon-dealing past.
It’s actually a pretty forward thinking story for 1960s America. You could argue it’s a bit hippy-swaying but really, it’s a message that can still be applied to today and I really liked that about the book.
If you're interested you should just go read it for yourself. It's pretty great :)
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Color Tales
17/17
The project should deal with colors and their effect on well-being, feelings, expression and thus on human psychology. When I realized that there was so much more to tell through this project, I began to develop it into an overarching concept. The language of images should not only shed light on the linear theories of the psychological effects of colors. The pictures with the help of the language of colors should tell a story, describe a situation, let thoughts wander into the future or the past, inspire our fantasies.
I used milk, acrylic paint, liquid soap and oil to create this amazing arts.
Every picture tells a story, but I desided not to explane the story behinde each one, but invite you to give your own meaning and your own feelings when you look at the picture. I belive that makes more fun:)
Enjoi it and I hope you’ll like it.
PS: have a good time and take care!
Color Tales
9/17
The project should deal with colors and their effect on well-being, feelings, expression and thus on human psychology. When I realized that there was so much more to tell through this project, I began to develop it into an overarching concept. The language of images should not only shed light on the linear theories of the psychological effects of colors. The pictures with the help of the language of colors should tell a story, describe a situation, let thoughts wander into the future or the past, inspire our fantasies.
I used milk, acrylic paint, liquid soap and oil to create this amazing arts.
Every picture tells a story, but I desided not to explane the story behinde each one, but invite you to give your own meaning and your own feelings when you look at the picture. I belive that makes more fun:)
Enjoi it and I hope you’ll like it.
PS: have a good time and take care!
Color Tales
16/17
The project should deal with colors and their effect on well-being, feelings, expression and thus on human psychology. When I realized that there was so much more to tell through this project, I began to develop it into an overarching concept. The language of images should not only shed light on the linear theories of the psychological effects of colors. The pictures with the help of the language of colors should tell a story, describe a situation, let thoughts wander into the future or the past, inspire our fantasies.
I used milk, acrylic paint, liquid soap and oil to create this amazing arts.
Every picture tells a story, but I desided not to explane the story behinde each one, but invite you to give your own meaning and your own feelings when you look at the picture. I belive that makes more fun:)
Enjoi it and I hope you’ll like it.
PS: have a good time and take care!
Poem.
Quintessentially Scotland, wrapped in a burnt amber autumnal cloak.
Lochan islet overarched by the noble, native Scots Pine.
Rosehips, gorse and sapling silver birch frame a breathless stillness and combine to form the archetypal landscape of Caledonia.
A perfect moment of utter calm where time ceases and beauty overwhelms.
How rare.
How special.
How therapeutic
to mind, body and soul.
Color Tales
15/17
The project should deal with colors and their effect on well-being, feelings, expression and thus on human psychology. When I realized that there was so much more to tell through this project, I began to develop it into an overarching concept. The language of images should not only shed light on the linear theories of the psychological effects of colors. The pictures with the help of the language of colors should tell a story, describe a situation, let thoughts wander into the future or the past, inspire our fantasies.
I used milk, acrylic paint, liquid soap and oil to create this amazing arts.
Every picture tells a story, but I desided not to explane the story behinde each one, but invite you to give your own meaning and your own feelings when you look at the picture. I belive that makes more fun:)
Enjoi it and I hope you’ll like it.
PS: have a good time and take care!
What I told someone while working on this: "I started out to work on many photos, then I got distracted working on one photo, then it became a painting, then it became a Rorschach test."
Leaves and flood debris
Santa Rosa Creek, Cambria, CA | June 28, 2025
X-Pro2 • Voigtländer Macro Apo-Ultron 35mm ƒ2
Capture 1 edit.
I mostly edited this upside-down to render it abstract while I was effectively painting details into the darkness. I should have been working on the shots from earlier in the day instead, but so it goes. Funny how influences build and transfer. I'm applying a Cartier-Bresson technique to an abstracted landscape that he'd find objectionable. I'm having trouble putting names to the rest of the influences here though; I feel like I've seen that bright trunk in an Ansel, but I keep thinking of Garrod for some reason. I joked while editing this that it had turned into a Rorschach test, but maybe there's a deeper truth to that than I even intended.
I saw the recent interview with Ralph Gibson where he gave the advice that you shouldn't imitate those you admire because you won't learn anything that way. Important truth there. Influences will influence, that's just how it works, but when we imitate what we've seen instead of letting it work behind the scenes on what we do, we end up stuck in a learning phase comparable to how rules of composition get memorized and consciously applied like recipes, rather than first recognizing that they are descriptive rather than prescriptive, and then internalizing them so that they form an unconscious groundwork of effective seeing.
I think anyone who's followed me a while will recognize—as I certainly do—that this is a big weakness of mine. I love my influences deeply, and sometimes I imitate them consciously, but that's not my overarching goal. Occasionally praise gets thrown at me for it, and appreciation is appreciated, but I also get a lot of misunderstanding. In my best moments, I've just barely touched that place where I find myself amongst all the competing influences looking through my eyes, and I'm always trying to claw my way back to that.
I know I might never do it though. I think there's still value in honoring what we love, but what loves us wants us to rise above its constraints. I think about dear old Jeff Nixon with intense empathy. He fought hard, but I don't think he wanted his appreciated work to be only the times he best imitated his teacher. If I'm on a rocky beach and Edward feels like working through me a little, I'll never complain, but I do also hope he'll sometimes let me stand on his shoulders to get my own shot before the light is gone.
(DSCF2476c (flickr))
This moc was built for the second round of the 2017 bio-cup. The overarching theme was historical and my sub theme was western.
The chaos of life is filled with knots ant diversions,
splits and support.
Tension can pull us taught
or the path can reveal multiple divergences.
What's right in front of you
can be a tangled mess.
While your overarching direction
fades into the mist.
- a fragment
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Color Tales
12/17
The project should deal with colors and their effect on well-being, feelings, expression and thus on human psychology. When I realized that there was so much more to tell through this project, I began to develop it into an overarching concept. The language of images should not only shed light on the linear theories of the psychological effects of colors. The pictures with the help of the language of colors should tell a story, describe a situation, let thoughts wander into the future or the past, inspire our fantasies.
I used milk, acrylic paint, liquid soap and oil to create this amazing arts.
Every picture tells a story, but I desided not to explane the story behinde each one, but invite you to give your own meaning and your own feelings when you look at the picture. I belive that makes more fun:)
Enjoi it and I hope you’ll like it.
PS: have a good time and take care!
Excerpt from thewelltoronto.com/arts/dustin-yellin-emergence/:
Emergence
2023
Emergence by Dustin Yellin braids together three threads–the origin of the universe, the birth of life, and the creation of computing. The sculpture depicts a giant figure modeled from the World Tree, a mythological concept found across multiple cultures that connects the Earth to the stars. Mirroring various evolutionary hypotheses, Emergence grows out of a base plate that represents a primordial soup from which all life on Earth developed. Various vignettes and fantastical elements are scattered throughout the figure’s body: a cat with the rear of a dog stares into a toilet to see its reflection like Narcissus; an astronaut chick hatches out of a geodesic sphere; a battery-operated frog licks a Black Hole in the form of a bagel; a monkey emerges from a monkey brain held up by a large-lipped rotisserie chicken; hybrid animal/human astronauts explore the entire scene from top to bottom, making their way up to the moon.
Included among these surrealist details are many elements relating to the sculpture’s overarching themes of cosmology, mythology, and technology, interspersed with nods to Ontario, such as local flora and fauna, and major Canadian inventions. These many details add up to tell various stories of how small things come together to form more complex systems. Like an open-source code, these stories are not determined, and visitors are encouraged to decipher the artwork and construct their own narratives. More details catch the eye the longer one looks – discover the meaning behind each element by accessing the Emergence Discovery Handbook.
Welcome to my new adventure to close out the year! I'm taking every theme from the figbarf page on Instagram and posting at least one figure per theme, since I feel bad for not keeping up the whole year and I like a challenge lol. As a way to guide myself, I also picked a theme from each group that would be the overarching theme, with this overall theme being Ships, Crews, & Captains. Hope y'all enjoy these!
Left to right:
#figbarf31 - Clones, Duplicates, & Doppelgangers: Captain Rex (The Clone Wars)
#figbarf32 - Fairy Tales: Captain Hook (Peter Pan)
#figbarf33 - Different Timelines, Parallel Worlds, & Alternate Realities: Captain Kirk (Star Trek Beyond)
#figbarf34 - Martial Arts: Master Wu (Ninjago)
#figbarf35 - Ships, Crews, & Captains: Captain Atom (DC)