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As a "professional" (I use the term loosely), it takes some mental preparation to create something...and videotape myself creating that something...and be okay with letting others see a process that might not lead to something I'm happy with.
Here is my Monday video for this week! www.promotingpassion.com/shooting-with-instant-film/
I try to show that kind of vulnerability every week when I release my Monday videos. Every week I try to do something a little different or weird for the sake of these two outcomes:
1. Being an Artist is not about creating perfection. It is about creating, period. Trying. Failing. Innovation. Trailblazing. So, every week, I strive to be an Artist, not a Professional.
2. I want to show that you can have a career as an Artist and also not know what you're doing sometimes. It is okay to play. If we don't, we won't progress. So, every week, I'm taking you into my play-process.
This week I shot some self-portraits with my little Instax Mini camera. It was a totally new experience for me. I don't know how I feel about the final result, but truth be told, I don't really care. That's not the point. I hope you'll take a look at the video I made this week and, if you want to fulfill my hope - go out and try something you've never tried before.
Fenix is the new art museum about migration in Rotterdam.
The exhibition ‘All Directions’ is organized around six themes: migration, identity, fortune, border, flight and home.
Home
Home is where the journey begins and ends. But not everyone arrives at their destination. (…) Home can be a long search. A home is more than just a roof over your head. (…) Home is also a feeling. It's the tea you pour and the people you laugh with. Shoes off, slippers on.
'Doors of Perception', 2023-2024 by Maurice van Tellingen (Netherlands, 1957).
Front doors tell stories about those who live behind them. Like a timeline, these ten doors represent the architectural styles of Dutch homes over the past hundred years.
Source: Info panels inside the museum and next to the art works.
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Fenix is het nieuwe kunstmuseum over migratie in Rotterdam. De tentoonstelling ‘Alle Richtingen’ is opgebouwd rond zes thema's: migratie, identiteit, geluk, grens, vlucht en thuis.
Thuis
Thuis is waar de reis begint en eindigt. Maar niet iedereen komt aan op zijn bestemming. (…) Thuis kan een lange zoektocht zijn. Een thuis is meer dan een dak boven je hoofd. (…) Thuis is ook een gevoel. Het is de the die je schenkt en de mensen met wie je lacht. Scoenen uit, slippers aan.
'Doors of Perception', 2023-2024 door Maurice van Tellingen (Nederlalnd, 1957).
Voordeuren vertellen verhalen over wie erachter woont. Als een tijdlijn representeren deze tien deuren de bouwstijlen van Nederlandse woningen in de afgelopen hondert jaar.
Bron: Informatiepanelen in het museum en naast de kunstwerken.
How perceptions change. Peter did not consider this negative worthy of printing back in 1964, he printed a Fowler 0-4-0 150hp diesel mechanical shunter and an Andrew Barclay tank locomotive from his time at this site.
This view taken in Metropolitan-Cammell's yard shows a steam crane and one of the other Fowler diesels (there were 3). It also gives us a view of the now demolished Washwood Heath gas works which was on the opposite side of the main lines to Derby, the Metro-Cammell buildings are now history too, they make way for HS2.
The Industrial Railways Society visited Metro-Cammell, Morris Motors, Nechells power station and Hams Hall power station.
Peter Shoesmith 09/02/1964
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Please take a minute to read this uncanny phenomenon.
I was so excited to FINALLY see some snow outside our windows that, with "Window Wednesday" in mind, I took a shot of these two images which were placed randomly on my windowsill in December.
NOT until I just uploaded this post did I notice that the watercolor on the left blends so naturally into the real background it looks like I just put a mat on the sill!
I promise you this was NOT planned! The photo card I received from my husband is on the right, and his watercolor is on the left, along with a little added "Charlie Brown" tree . . .
WOW! CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?
In life we have to navigate between reality and our perception of it. This image is looking straight up into the sky from under a huge Cherry Blossom tree in full bloom during the day. What alters the perception of reality is the keen focus on the midday Sun in the center of the image from under the shadow of the tree. However, the reality is I was standing under a beautiful sea of pink Cherry Blossoms in full bloom, but the perception is that it was dark and colorless with the exception of a single brilliant light above, that being the Sun. We have the ability to change focus and greatly adjust our perception of reality. Tidal Basin, Washington DC, 8 April 2018.
The 18th century, the age of Enlightenment is marked by the modernist ideal of ultimate perception. The telescope which was increasingly used in this era was a means of unlimited perception from the below and of the above, whilst the Eiffel Tower which was built a century later was the medium of unlimited perception from the above and of the below.
This is the HYBYCOZO sculpture "Constellation" in the Schilling Entry Arbor and Fountain at Desert Botanical Garden. Decorated for the holidays with Poinsettias.
Constellation - mirror finish stainless steel. A cluster of 12 dodecahedra forming a 72 sided 36” diameter suspended artwork. Edition of 5 available - enquire within for more info. #hybycozo
dbg.org/events/light-bloom/2024-10-12/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFelgzzzQqg
LIGHT BLOOM by HYBYCOZO is a limited-time exhibit where nature and light converge. This mesmerizing display invites you to explore the Garden transformed by stunning geometric light installations that illuminate the beauty of the desert landscape in a new way. As the sun sets, LIGHT BLOOM comes to life, casting intricate shadows and vibrant hues across the Garden. Wander the trails and let the enchanting installations transport you to a magical realm where the natural world meets the abstract.
HYBYCOZO is the collaborative studio of artists Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk. Based in Los Angeles, their work consists of larger than life geometric sculptures, often with pattern and texture that draw on inspirations from mathematics, science, and natural phenomena. Typically illuminated, the work celebrates the inherent beauty of form and pattern and represents their ongoing journey in exploring the myriad dimensions of geometry. HYBYCOZO is short for the Hyperspace Bypass Construction Zone, a nod to their favorite novel (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) and was the title of their first installation in 2014. They continue to create under this name. In the novel earth was being destroyed to make way for a bypass. It lead Serge and Yelena to ask what it means to make art at a time where the earth’s hospitable time in the universe may be limited.
dbg.org/meet-the-artists-behind-light-bloom/
Q: Walk us through your creative process?
A: The focus of our creative process is to explore the intricate interplay between geometry, light, space and to inspire contemplation, wonder and a sense of place among our audiences. Geometry and pattern-making serve as the backbone of our creative expression. It is the framework through which we navigate the complexities of form, proportion and spatial relationships. Patterns, both simple and complex, have a profound impact on our perception and understanding of the world. They possess the ability to evoke a sense of order, balance and aesthetic pleasure. Pattern making and geometry offer us a means of storytelling and communication. These patterns serve as conduits for deeper exploration, provoking introspection and contemplation to uncover the underlying symbols embedded within the human psyche.
Q: What inspired the concept of LIGHT BLOOM?
A: Just as many cactus and desert plants have evolved to produce night-blooming flowers, adapting to their environment and thriving in darkness, our sculptures come alive after sunset, blossoming with light and transforming the night into a glowing landscape of art and geometry.
Desert Botanical Garden has an incredible collection of plants and cacti arranged in a beautiful park setting.
"Think the desert is all dirt and tumbleweeds? Think again. Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cactus, trees and flowers from all around the world spread across 55 acres in Phoenix, Arizona."
Desert Botanical Garden
DBG HYBYCOZO Light Bloom
The Doors of Perception is a book by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. The book takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's 1793 poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
30 Days of Perception - Day 29
Wonder: a feeling of amazement and admiration when taking notice of something quite remarkable.
Nature, in all its forms fills me with wonder. As I see, and admire from my kitchen window, my little basket of strawberry plants. I find it so amazing that the leaves know exactly when to change colour. They're prompted by the cooler nights and shorter days which trigger changes in the leaves that have consequences on their colour. The productions of green chlorophyll stops and the green fades leaving yellow, orange and red pigments
The changing colours of leaves fills me with wonder.
”If we meet life with wonder, it’s always new, always fresh. We don’t need experiences - just encounters.” ~ Maggie Ross.
Today, I encountered these colourful strawberry plant leaves and they filled me with joy!
"Depth Perception (2):" I took this photo last year in a remote area of the Hassayampa River. The water in which I was standing when I was shooting was already knee deep. If you look closely into the water, just beyond the rocks in the foreground, you may see that there is a sudden drop-off into a bowl-like chasm, the depth of which I did not want to measure myself. Instead, I stopped and enjoyed the reflections of the colorful rock patterns across this watery abyss.
The whole palazzo was covered with reproductions of Persian rugs for the exhibit. --- --- --- Rudolf Stingel conceived this exhibition especially for Palazzo Grassi. Given the utmost freedom of execution, Stingel has completely transformed the museum, filling the entire space with an oriental carpet. Moving beyond the idea of two-dimensionality that is conventionally associated with painting, the exhibition aims to subvert the usual spatial relationship between a painting and viewer.
The carpet evokes the thousand-year history of Venice, the ‘Most Serene Republic’, but also recalls the Middle-European culture so loved by the artist; for example, we are reminded of Sigmund Freud’s early twentieth-century Viennese study. This reference undoubtedly provides a key to interpreting this installation: on entering the ‘labyrinth’, an all-encompassing feeling and sensorial experience transport us towards the transcendence of the Ego, by means of its removal and its ghosts. The nearly thirty paintings exhibited suggest presences that are ‘buried’ in memory, and removed experiences that thrive again. The architectural space becomes an introspective and projective space, silent and welcoming, suitable for meditation: but Stingel’s work alters our visual and spatial perception of it, suggesting a new, rarified and suspenseful atmosphere in which the silver, white and black of the paintings stands out like so many other ‘openings’ on Venice, in an another dimension.
From the Palazzo Grassi website
GhostWorks Texture Competition #49
Texture with thanks to Skeletal Mess
This image just kept getting darker and darker... but that's not really where I wanted it to go. So I thought I'd find a poem or something to explain darkness in the image, so I started to look up the word sorrow but instead came across a wonderful bit of conversation between two sisters - Marianne and Elinor in the novel Sense and Sensibility - where Marianne is caught up in the fabulous whirl of leaves as they fall... and her sister is... should we say.... not! Sisters!! :))
Photo and one of the texture is my own, the other texture is courtesy of SkeletalMess
This photo is part of my series La naissance d'Aphrodite, which you can view in my list of albums. By viewing the images in chronological order, and reading the script for the series in the album header, you can reconstruct one of the mythological versions of Aphrodite's origins and a sketch of her first steps in the mortal world.
Aphrodite is one of the most famous figures of ancient Greek religion: the goddess of love.