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Playing with #light and giving my shadow and accidental "high five!" #beyourownbeloved #nofilter #shadowself
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March 12, 2010
Today is my last full day here in Ohio...and I won't lie I'm thrilled. Being here has done nothing but depress me...and I plan on making the most of my last night in my own bed...oh my own room, how I will miss you. But only 2 more months of putting up with Teja and I'll be good to go...I hope.
Garry told me today that he found out Target got his application which was transfered from southern California and they forwarded it to two other Targets in the area. I swear he is working as hard as he can to get a job. He's applied to almost everything: 3 Targets, 3 Taco Bells, McDonalds, a casino, a grocery store, ect. (there are more I just can't remember) But he also said his cousin and her husband are willing to pay him to help build a porch for them. Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out how to get money myself. The only way I can get it now is through selling my work...problem is I don't think any of it is good enough to sell and I don't think anyone would buy it...and even if that wasn't true I don't know how. *sigh*
I swear it took me a good hour of taking failed pictures to get to this point...and even then I'm not as pleased as I expected. *sigh* I just can't win can I?
TRF: I decided another dog I want in my life is a collie...and if it's a boy I'm naming him Achilles :D
Available – In June 2017, I found this self portrait I painted in April of 2014 and thought I would share it. Self portraits by nature, in the purest and most valued sense, are unflinchingly honest. If they hit the mark they give the viewer a glimpse of the artist’s unvarnished self analysis and expression. In the sense of honesty, the artist must knowingly and scrupulously be completely honest, exposing all, telling all, naked, afraid and including their deepest shames. We all have judgments, probably the most critical of which are ones of self. We all contain a shadow self, but few venture to explore, or indeed expose to others or the world at large. This shadow self is part of us, the core of light which we all contain as well could not exist without the shadow mirror. It can be helpful if we befriend this shadow, letting it guide and teach us. At that moment in 2014, just after my birthday, I painted this seeking expression and visual representation of an aspect of that deep part of me. We would all be wise to love, cherish and embrace ALL aspects of our complex and simple selves, light, dark and indifferent aspects included. The reason being is that people’s parts cannot be separated from the whole, and indeed the whole is richer for all its combined nature and the choices we are free to make.
3 pages from the expressive drawing class I attended.
I feel in love with sketching with a china marker (waxy pencil used in printmaking)
Last time I hopped into this role (2002) I was threatened with 'divorce'......which eventuated some months later..........
against the glare my shadow looks me in the eye,
a reflexive communique...
{shadow head (gone to ground 025)}
let us excur...
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Took a roadtrip to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Absolutely beautiful there. I'm the shadow in the right corner.
Again - a shadow self....
Olympus OM-2
Zuiko 50mm 1.8
Gelbfilter / yellow filter
Kodax Tmax ISO 400
Negativscan
All images are available for prints and stock licensing. To learn more, visit my web site jamescolecreative.com
This time, I managed to survive a whole (working) day and was able to gauge the subtle reactions (not all adverse) in my work and community environments....
A couple of smiling shadows (myself and my father) in conversation, to finish off the year.
It's been much fun, fellow December Diarists (and it's also been exhausting).
Thanks for all of your great images and visits. May you have a productive year ahead, filled with shadows and laughter, and may we all be able to meet again next December for another go of it.
Dear December Diary: Lost the use of my camera this weekend. So I will have to cheat by posting older shots from my archive.
(I'm sure you will understand.) ;o)