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One heck of a day.
I thought it'd be easy going once we settled here at the landing pad.
But boy, was I wrong.
Ya see, that's the thing about war.
It never goes as planned.
We had just gotten the news that we had won. We had actually successfully completed a mission.
No casualties.
No regrets.
No failure.
Now that's my kind of mission.
The boys were all riled up and passionate about this victory. First mission and it's a full bed of roses.
I gotta admit, I was pretty happy too.
But that's against protocol, so I can't show it.
I thought things would be fine after that.
Some gunship would carry us home, Tango would shoot some jokes, and we'd all share some drinks all on me.
Least I could do, right?
Then.
Hell transfigured itself from its fiery dungeon and placed itself in our midst.
The comms bustled with screams and yells of anguish and agony.
"AHHHHH!!!! We-w-we can't-- It's coming to fast---- it's hopele-- AAAAAHHH-"
"What the firefek is going? Hey, you wait sto--"
"Sarge! What the heck, shoot that bloody si---
AAAAAAAARRRRRGGHHggghhhhh."
It was too much.
All the joy had been sucked out of us.
Somewhere was an evil foe too cruel to imagine.
But that wasn't it.
Just as all these transmisions trickle in, a massive shuttle blots out of the dark sky.
It's engine was on fire, crippling the ship and sending it straight toward us.
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"Boys!! Take COVER!!"
In those decisive moments, again life flashed before me.
The uncertainty between life or death was nearly too much to bear.
Whether I would live and another die....
Why would it happen?
Why--
[EXPLOSION]
Silence.
Void.
Emptiness.
Then.
Light.
Though my cracked visor I manged to see the the flames, like little Devils consuming whatever was in sight.
Debris was everywhere.
The comm tower was on the brink of collapse.
The stench of gasoline burning made me gag.
This was war.
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"Sabre! Ratchet! Tango! Fuse! Where are you!? Boys!?"
Silence.
It can't end like this.
No.
No.
No.
And, then like turtles, team emerged out from their shells.
[CT-2471]|Tango|:"Well, I can still dance." (Chuckles)
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"Dance-boy?"
[CS-1742]|Sabre|:"Well I'm fine, thanks for asking."
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"Sabre?."
[CS-1742]|Sabre|:"The one and only." (laughs)
[CT-1274]|Fuse|:"Man, it seems like for every boom I give, the Seps just gotta keep competing with meh."
[CL-4712]|Havoc:" (chokingly) But,Y-y-ya, ya just can't let 'em win, now can ya?".[CT-1274]|Fuse|:"You got that right Sir."
Wait.
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"Where's Ratchet"?
.[CT-1274]|Fuse|:Geez sir, I'm afraid I don't know.
I heard something.
What was that?
There, yes right there...
There.
A moan.
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"Ratchet!"
There he was, leaning against the towers base like a shattered doll.
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"Are you alright"?
[CT-2471]|Tango|:"Vital signs are stable, Sir."
[CT- 7215]|Hatchet|:"I.... I-I think I've just gone and broken me leg."
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"Definitely."
[CT- 7215]|Hatchet|:"Nah, Tis but a scratch. Let me-- get.... up.." ( tumbles)
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"Easy thar Private, Easy now."
[CT- 7215]|Hatchet|:"HA! I got all of y'all!"
[CS-1742]|Sabre|:"When we get back to HQ, I will personally beat you up."
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"If there were a lower rank I'd demote you right now for scaring the living daylights out of me."
[CT- 7215]|Hatchet|:"(Chuckles) Sorry sir, I just had to."
[CS-1742]|Sabre|:"Well, we're alive."
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"And that's what matters."
That was too close for comfort.
As staggered to look for my rifle, I saw a gleam of shiny white armor.
I- Well I just can't believe it.
If it wasn't Cod.
One of my best buds on Kamino, he had been entered into the legion some time after me.
I thought I'd seen the last of him.
And here he was.
"(Weakly) Well if it isn't Hotshot Havoc Havoc." (Chuckles)
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"We meet again, Corny Cod."
"Argh.... what happened?"
[CL-4712]|Havoc:"Hell broke loose."
"You can say that again."
[CL-4712]|Havoc:You gone solo?"
Oh, firefek. My squad... they're here. Somewhere. I gotta, I just gotta- get up.... (falls)
[CL-4712]|Havoc:Cod, it's alright. Believe me, I know. We'll find them.
I helped him up as we began searching for his team.
Still, we're alive.
We've won.
An unlikely victory that nearly ended in a defeat.
Yet we are and will be,
Victorious.
//////END LOG\\\\\\
The water garden
In 1893, ten years after his arrival at Giverny, Monet bought the piece of land neighbouring his property on the other side of the railway. It was crossed by a small brook, the Ru. With the support of the prefecture, Monet had the first small pond dug ; even though his peasant neighbours were opposed.
Later on the pond would be enlarged to its present day size. The water garden is full of asymmetries and curves. It is inspired by the Japanese gardens that Monet knew from the prints he collected avidly.
In this water garden you will find the famous Japanese bridge covered with wisterias, other smaller bridges, weeping willows, a bamboo wood and above all the famous nympheas which bloom all summer long. Never before had a painter so shaped his subjects in nature before painting them. And so he created his works twice. Monet would find his inspiration in this water garden for more than twenty years.
Always looking for mist and transparencies, Monet would dedicate himself less to flowers than to reflections in water, a kind of inverted world transfigured by the liquid element.
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She was the golden thread running through everything, a lens that magnified beauty so that the whole world stood transfigured in relation to her, and her alone.
-Donna Tartt
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There are stories of lost children changed into deer for a time, reminding their kin to honor the relationship with nature.....
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Homily: 15Sunday-OT071121
Subject: How are We Doing?
In preparing a homily, one must first read all of the readings that are going to be proclaimed on that day. The Gospel carries the central theme and the other readings support the theme. Today’s theme focuses on the call that each one of us hear, ponder and respond to…that God has uniquely given to you.
Let us begin with our Gospel reading where Jesus chose among his disciples (the Apostles) …because they are the living witnesses of Jesus-they where formed in HIS presence. Our Gospel reading, is very specific, in what Jesus is calling them to do. They are to go out in pairs, taking no money, the cloths on their backs and a walking stick. Into the community they go, preaching repentance, healing the sick…each disciple experiencing success and rejection. Interestingly, later in Mark 6, the twelve return and report to Jesus what they had accomplished. Jesus invites them to a quiet place…to reflect and rest with him.
Today, we are also called HIS disciples and the Church is our school of formation and teaches us how Jesus walks with us-supports us in how we live out our call. In our ordinary existence, each one of us have experienced Gods call. Sometimes the call we hear can be heard in the quiet times of our lives. At other times, it may come like a lighting strike. Either way, we respond, and we are sent out to accomplish the task at hand. We are doing God’s will, and in big or small, decisions we are building the Kingdom of God on earth.
From our second reading in Ephesians it says:
In him we were also chosen,
destined in accord with the purpose of the One
who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will,
In all wisdom and insight, he has made known to us
the mystery of his will in accord with his favor
that he set forth in him as a plan for the fullness of times,
to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth.
When we look into the mystery of life, we know our future is going to reveal surprises, good and bad, joyous and sorrowful, and it is in this landscape that we live out our calls. No call is the same, each person uniquely responds to the events that will emerge in each minute, hour and day.
Today’s takeaway question is: How are you doing with your unique call from God?
Recently, a parish member brought me a pile of books to read-yes a bit overwhelming when I have a much larger stack of books waiting to be read. So I sift through the books and find 3…the same 3 he has asked me to return. I picked up the first one, read a few interesting chapters and skimmed the rest of it. However, the second book I opened…stopped me in my tracks! This particular book speaks to the heart of my experience of being a disciple of Christ.
Here is one relatable quote from the book “the Human Adventure” by Carmelite Monk, William McNamara that should help you reflect on how well we are doing:
“We must come in or go out. All the way in-where the fire is and the sacrificial lovers are all aglow with the Spirit.”
William then quotes Dom Marmion, a renowned Benedictine abbot and spiritual writer. “He said the difference between the Saints and the rest of us is that they plunge boldly and daringly into the fire of God’s love and come out burned but incandescently and utterly transfigured. We put our little finger in, get slightly burned, and spend the rest of our days circling the fire…far enough away never to be burned again but close enough to be warmed by it.”
Jesus for us, is literally present to us in the Eucharist-he waiting for us to return and I suspect he is waiting for us to report. Each week, we return like the 12 disciples, we may be tired, but we are asked to report on how we are doing as His disciples. We will not answer this question with words but what feelings that resides deep in our hearts and conscience. We then follow our Jesus to a quiet place to rest. May we find rest here, as we offer up to God our hurts, joys, successes and failures…our very hearts to God.
This painting depicts an abstract face that emerges through a contrast between black and various shades of red. I wanted to capture the essence of a human face, without providing details or definition other than by transfiguring, but a presence is still clearly perceptible.
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Agfa Isolette III with 3.5 Solinar and Kodak T-Max 400 developed in HC-110 dilution B.
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.
Walter Pater
PELERINAGE DU 15 AOÛT 2018
ORCIVAL. Illumination de la statue par le vitrail St-Jean.
Ceci ne se produit que chaque 15 août.
"Nous te saluons, ô toi Notre-Dame,
Marie Vierge Sainte que drape le soleil,
Couronnée d'étoiles, la lune est sous tes pas.
En toi nous est donné l'aurore du Salut".
Chant de messe. Entrée.
C'est extraordinaire à cet instant, Marie est vraiment transfigurée et recouverte d'un manteau blanc lumineux, divin, incandescent.
Merveille.
The far depths of heaven filled with glowing worlds. Into the deeper sanctuary, into the more exalted region of feeling, the soul of the world retired with all its earthly powers, there to rule until the dawn should break of universal Glory. No longer was the Light the abode of the gods, and the heavenly token of their presence -- they drew over themselves the veil of the Night. The Night became the mighty womb of revelations -- into it the gods went back -- and fell asleep, to go abroad in new and more glorious shapes over the transfigured world.
- Novalis (1800)
"Time is scattered; the future, past and present. Whole lives are erased from the book by time; the screech of the pen across the page, your name. Time does not cleave the day with rush hours, lunch breaks, the last bus home. As you walk in the garden you pass into the now — the moment of entering can never be remembered. Around you the landscape lies transfigured. Here is the Amen beyond the prayer"
The Opinionmeter Of Munchausen - Achometro by Daniel Arrhakis (2021)
With the music : Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64, Montagus and Capulets
The Opinionmeter Of Munchausen belonged to the Baron of Munchausen (1720-1797) who ordered to make it to the famous Venetian machine-maker and hydraulic engineer Bartolomeo Ferracina (1692 - 1777).
The mechanism was built in secret for two years while Bartolomeo Ferracina working at St Mark's Clock.
Initially the Baron wanted a machine that could answer his most pressing questions and doubts since he did not trust anyone and feared Turkish spies; the Baron fought for the Russian Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739.
Initially, the mechanism responded whenever requested through a pointer that pointed "Yes" or "No". Depending on the seasons, the positions of the moon or the hours of the day, the mechanism calculated the response.
However, over time the answers began to emerge without him asking and in his head he heard voices that often contradicted each other. The problem worsened and even at night he was awakened with endless discussions that seemed to come from the mouths of the strange figures that ornamented the mechanism.
He sent a messenger to Venice to get answers, but Bartolomeo swore to him that this was not possible because it was a mainspring and cogwheel mechanism.
The case worsened after his marriage to Bernardine von Brunn in January 1794.
Bernardine von Brunn was very young (fifty years younger than the old Baron) and shortly after the wedding she spent the summer of 1794 in the spa town of Bad Pyrmont because she felt sick.
Every night the Baron was consumed by the rumors that spread about the life of his young bride's dances and flirtations confirmed by the signs and voices that echoed from the mechanism.
His bride gave birth to a daughter, Maria Wilhemina, on February 16, 1795, nine months after her summer trip.
Münchhausen lodged an official complaint that the child was not his, and spent the last years of his life in divorce proceedings and pension litigation.
In spite of everything, he was not alone because area's aristocrats frequently invited him to hear his stories of the war and his adventures, which were often exaggerated but which amused and surprised everyone, especially the children.
One night he grabbed the old mechanism and took it to an old cistern, dying childless a few days later on February 22, 1797.
A storm and consequent floods shortly afterwards in the Bodenwerder region of Germany, where his property was located, flooded and landed most of these galleries and cisterns, the whereabouts of the old mechanism still unknown...
Story and Image by Daniel Arrhakis
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This work was based on a proposal to illustrate an opinion article with a special machine to transfigure the opinions and comments that today abound in the media and televisions of countless commentators and the general public. Hence being a humorous criticism on the subject to which I added a story in part invented but with some real historical elements.
Chapter 26
Harry turned, and saw something monstrous cutting through the water towards them: a human body in swimming trunks with the head of a shark … it was Krum. He appeared to have Transfigured himself – but badly.
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I had to make many decisions here. My initial idea was to build the platform on the lake and show the four champions when they jump into the water. But since I already built the spectators’ stand (MOC number 4), I didn’t want to build a similar MOC.
The next logical step was to do the underwater scene where Harry rescues Ron. I know there is an official LEGO set dealing with this exact scene and I saw it years ago. I was worried to build something too similar to it, but I gave it a try without looking at the set again in order not to refresh my memory.
In the book, the “victims” are tied to a statue, in the film they are tied to an arch. Due to the restricted space I decided to go with the arch, though only by including a part of it.
I have been asked by James Bailey to show how I edit my pictures when they need flying, gliding or floating objects. I’ll post a link in the comments below to my twitter account where I upload some pictures that will explain the process.
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If you haven’t had a look already, please visit the other builder’s pages and see what they created for this Harry Potter series. Each MOC is a little work of art.
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
created by Marcel V.
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
created by Markus Rollbühler
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
created by Kevin Wollert
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi 1571-1610) - Basket of Fruit - (1599 about) - Pinacoteca Biblioteca Ambrosiana Milan
Presente nella collezione del cardinale Federico fin dal 1607, la Canestra venne probabilmente acquistata dal Borromeo durante il suo soggiorno romano, quando potrebbe anche aver conosciuto personalmente il Caravaggio, ospite del cardinal Del Monte.
Recenti indagini hanno confermato che il dipinto è stato realizzato su una tela di recupero, secondo una consuetudine del periodo romano, quando il Caravaggio dipingeva direttamente su precedenti stesure pittoriche. La critica ha oscillato per la datazione tra il 1594, proposto da Marini e Calvesi, e il 1597-1598, avanzato dal Gregori. Nell’atto di donazione la Canestra, è inserita nel gruppo degli “originali dei Paesi”, al termine del lungo elenco dei fiamminghi. Lo straordinario naturalismo di quest’opera, capace di trasfigurare il reale in pittura pura, può effettivamente connettersi non solo alla tradizione lombarda, ma anche alla sensibilità fiamminga. Nel Musaeum Federico Borromeo ricorda di aver cercato a lungo un pendant senza però trovare un dipinto che potesse reggere il confronto.
Present in the collection of Cardinal Federico since 1607, the Canestra was probably purchased by Borromeo during his stay in Rome, when he may have personally met Caravaggio, a guest of Cardinal Del Monte.
Recent investigations have confirmed that the painting was made on a salvaged canvas, according to a custom of the Roman period, when Caravaggio was painting directly on previous pictorial drafts. The criticism has fluctuated for the dating between 1594, proposed by Marini and Calvesi, and 1597-1598, advanced by Gregori. In the donation act, the Canestra, is included in the group of "originals of the countries", at the end of the long list of the Flemings. The extraordinary naturalism of this work, capable of transfiguring the real into pure painting, can effectively connect not only with the Lombard tradition, but also with the Flemish sensibility. In the Musaeum Federico Borromeo remembers having searched for a long time a pendant without finding a painting that could stand comparison.
In Situ - Aubervilliers (France)
En 2014, 40 artistes urbains ont été réunis en secret pendant plusieurs semaines dans le Fort d’Aubervilliers. Leur mission : transfigurer cette friche industrielle mystérieuse et méconnue pour l’ouvrir au public.
In 2014, 40 urban artists have been brought together in secret for several weeks in the Fort of Aubervilliers. Their mission: to transform this mysterious and little-known industrial wasteland to open to the public.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The Church of the Transfiguration is a Franciscan church located on Mount Tabor in Israel. It is traditionally believed to be the site where the Transfiguration of Christ took place, an event in the Gospels in which Jesus is transfigured upon an unnamed mountain and speaks with Moses and Elijah.
The current church, part of a Franciscan monastery complex, was completed in 1924. The architect was Antonio Barluzzi. It was built on the ruins of an ancient (4th–6th-century) Byzantine church and a 12th-century church of the Crusader Kingdom period. There is a Greek Orthodox church located on Mount Tabor as well, dedicated to the same purpose.
The church contains three grottoes belonging to the Crusader church. They were described by Jonas Korte, a publisher from Eldena, as "three chapels, with a small altar. They are called tabernacles, and they are said to represent the three huts which Peter desired to build, one for his Master (Jesus) the other two for Moses and Elias (Elijah)".
The Grotto of Christ is in the eastern part of the church. Steps lead down to a lower level containing a sanctuary roofed with a modern vault.
There is a chapel in each of the two towers at the western end of the church. The Chapel of Elijah is located in the south tower; the north tower holds the Chapel of Moses.
In the upper part of the church there is a mosaic on a gold ground representing the Transfiguration. On Aug 6th, which is the "day of the Transfiguration" in some church calendars, the sun strikes a glass plate set into the floor so that the golden mosaic is briefly illuminated.
Barluzzi has created a roof built of alabaster panels, meant to let in as much light as possible in accordance to the biblical event celebrated here. However, the alabaster roof could not be made watertight and had to be covered over with a common, non-translucent roof.
SO THEY HAVE EYES TO SEE
« My work is a visual exploration of making/mapping/preserving radical black lesbian and queer (LGBTI : lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex) visual history in post-Apartheid South Africa. I explore how visual activism can be employed by socially, culturally, politically and economically marginalized individuals to create sites of resistance as well as to develop a critical gaze from our own perspective. »
This portfolio represents four different series produced over several years in various South African townships and beyond. From Beulahs and Transfigures, features Ms D’vine (2007), Martin Machapa (2007), Christina Mavuma & Tinky (2010). These two series briefly distinguish between sexual orientation and gender expression. They help express how trans bodies can claim their space and articulate their gender expression within the homo-queer as well as the heterosexist spheres that tend to exclude the T’s and I’s embedded in the LGBTI acronym.
Let me say that I've found this exposure absolutely magnificent !
The Revolution Of The Seven Silent Keys - The Mystic Resistance Heptagram Of Ion by Daniel Arrhakis (2022)
With the music : Dwayne Ford - Last Stand (Feat. Clara Sorace)
The Revolution Of The Seven Silent Keys - The Mystic Resistance Heptagram Of Ion
In the past our Order went through very difficult times and it was not always possible to reveal itself, in fact it has always remained in a certain way in the shadows, hidden but active.
During one of those times when Despots ruled kingdoms or nations imposing repression and persecution without mercy, the order was forced to create a form of silent struggle that could in time defeat the oppressors ... we called "The Revolution Of The Seven Silent Keys" .
Seven Silence Keys that transfigure seven actions of struggle that are developed in secret over time by societies that were subjected to extremely repressive, controlling and autocratic regimes.
One might ask why the name "The Silent Keys", well when the revolution began for the first time, many time ago, the Grand Master of our order decided to start each stage of this silent struggle with instructions that were transmitted in a box that had a symbol that corresponded to a key that only the master of the order of the respective monastery possessed.
The keys had however been distributed before the start of the fight and in case the messenger was caught with the box it should be hidden or destroyed by fire.
Based on the conception of a regular Heptagram or Septagram inside a magical circle, (often mistakenly confused with Symbol of Witchcraft) which is based in ancient planetary energies or influences.
The ancients could only observe what they could see with the naked eye which were Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
They also included the Sun and Moon in their observable Universe, giving the seven classical planets of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Greeks and pretty much any ancient civilisation that looked up at wondered.
In addition to balancing the planetary energies the Heptagram can also be used to represent the seven directions; the cardinal directions of North, South, East, West and the spiritual directions of Above, Below and Within.
The Heptagram can also represent the seven days of the week. In Judeo-Christian context, it comes to represent the seven days of creation and by extension the complete nature of the Universe.
At another time we will make a more ritualistic and mystical analysis of the Heptagram so as not to go too far from the objective of the initial theme of our story.
In our case each vertex or tip of the regular Heptagram represents a Secret or Silent Key.
So according to the clockwise direction starting we will have the following keys that can materialize in concrete actions of struggle : The Key Of Venus, The Key of Mercury, The Key Of Moon, The Key Of Saturn, The Key Of Jupiter, The Key Of Mars and finally The Key Of Sun.
In the next works I will better explain the actions and representations individually.
"I am the spring, the holy ground
The endless seed of mystery
The thorn, the veil, the face of grace
Brazen image, the thief of sleep
The ambassador of dreams, Prince of peace
I am the sword, the wound, the stain
Scorned, transfigured child of Cain
I rend, I end, I return
Again, I am the salt, the bitter laugh
I am the gas in a womb of light, the evening star
The ball of sight that leads that sheds the tears of Christ
Dying and drying as I rise tonight
(Isabella, we are rising)"...
Patti Smith Group / Easter...
Zanele Muholi
SO THEY HAVE EYES TO SEE
« My work is a visual exploration of making/mapping/preserving radical black lesbian and queer (LGBTI : lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex) visual history in post-Apartheid South Africa. I explore how visual activism can be employed by socially, culturally, politically and economically marginalized individuals to create sites of resistance as well as to develop a critical gaze from our own perspective. »
This portfolio represents four different series produced over several years in various South African townships and beyond. From Beulahs and Transfigures, features Ms D’vine (2007), Martin Machapa (2007), Christina Mavuma & Tinky (2010). These two series briefly distinguish between sexual orientation and gender expression. They help express how trans bodies can claim their space and articulate their gender expression within the homo-queer as well as the heterosexist spheres that tend to exclude the T’s and I’s embedded in the LGBTI acronym.
Let me say that I've found this exposure absolutely magnificent !
Mural "Pass your orange" by British artist Peachzz at Av. du Champ de Bataille 138 in Mons, Belgium.
For the Festival, Peachzz has transfigured a moment familiar to everyone in Jemappes - the Cavalcade and the Gilles. His colourful and joyful approach brings a luminosity to this wall that radiates throughout the neighbourhood.
Source: streetartcities.com/cities/mons/markers/adf1e474-08e7-46a...
Transfigured Imagination
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: Supermoon of April 8, 2020 (Beautiful Full Moon Rise Through) - Canon
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
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The Chapel of the Transfiguration and the Teton Range of the Rocky Mountains, Grand Teton National Park, Moose, Wyoming. Owned and operated by St. John's Episcopal Church in Jackson, Wyoming, the chapel was constructed in 1925 from lodgepole pine. The chapel and accessory buildings were designed by C.B. Loomis in a rustic style, also called Western Craftsman. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The chapel was featured in the movie Spencer's Mountain starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. The transfiguration of Jesus is a story told in the New Testament when Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain.
031322Homily2ndLent
This is the 2nd Sunday of Lent. In today’s gospel, we read about how Peter, James and John, went from being sleepy… deeply fatigued…to being “fully awake.” These companions of Jesus, were witnessing something startling…the transfiguration. To see what these Apostles saw, how could they not be awakened and transformed.
What I want to focus on is becoming “fully awake.” When we step into this state of being “fully awake” in our relationship with God; we may not be transfigured, but we are transformed. Synonyms of this word include words such as metamorphosis, conversion, transformation and makeover.
The “sad beauty” of Lent, is that we are provided with an opportunity to reflect on our lives…how far we are from missing the mark. This self inventory is necessary for each of us go through, but we do not do it alone! We are given this season each year, to become “fully awake.” When we are going through this period of discernment, what are we gauging our progress against?
We have the Light that shines in the darkness…the literal light of Jesus Christ… his life, his words; we call this walking in “the way.” We see HIM walking through his passion. In the Stations of the Cross…we get to meditate on the suffering we see in HIS face…the dragging of HIS cross up the hill where HE will be crushed and crucified for each of us.
This is not a time to inflate our own guilt!
In this period of our formation, it is important to let go of the past…especially if we have gone through processes of repentance. This unnecessary luggage we carry from our past distorts the way we see ourselves and we may become fixed on ourselves in an unhealthy way. It certainly prevents us from being “fully awake” to the forgiving God who journeys with us through the ups and downs in our life.
Our tradition of receiving the sacrament of reconciliation is the most visible way we can know that grace is given to us; to let go of those things that weigh heavy on out heart.
In the 1986, a movie was released called “The Mission.” Robert De Niro, plays a mercenary-Rodrigo Mendoza, a slave trader in the 1750’s. It takes place in Argentina, amongst the Guarani, a tribe inhabiting the Paraguayan jungle. The movie is about how the Jesuits come to convert these people to Christianity. In the movie, Rodrigo kidnaps these indigenous people and sells them into slavery. He makes a good living. He seems to have no conscience, until he kills his brother in a duel whom he caught having an affair with his fiancé. Rodrigo becomes a very broken man. Fr. Gabriel, invites Rodrigo, to journey with him and other Jesuits, up the great falls and into the Jungle to meet and convert the Guarani.
In this journey, Rodrigo begins his penance…he gathers all his weapons and armor and ties them together into a large ball. He drags the ball, rope in hand, all the way up the falls. In one scene, a Jesuit cuts the rope, because he cannot bear to watch Rodrigo slipping and falling in the rain and mud. Fr. Gabriel mention to the Jesuit, that no one can take this burden from him until he is ready to let go. Rodrigo, eventually let’s go of this ball…when a tribe member, with a knife approaches him as though he is going to kill him…but instead cuts the rope…sending the ball of weapons and armor into the river.
This is a extreme example of how we let our past actions haunt us. We must quit grasping this luggage from our past so that we can see clearly in the present and be hopeful for the future. We may find that others remind us of our past. Our Lord calls on us to forgive others as HE has forgiven us.
How many people do we know in our circle of influence that have turned from Christ because they feel unworthy? God has not turned from them, but they have turned from God. They are not experiencing what our Psalm reading said: “The Lord is my light and Salvation; whom should I Fear? The Lord is my Life’s refuge; of whom should I be Afraid?”
Our second reading from Philippians, Paul challenges each one of us to be models of the Christian life for others. This is our challenge! I know that some carry something that clouds us from a deeper relationship with Christ. Let us cast off that which enslaves us…
We will then be “Fully Awake.” We will experience God more intensely which is what Lent is all about.
One roads leads to two and suddenly there is a junction for traffic and the scope for decision, revision and division til contemplation arrives at cognition and transmigration induced by transmutation, we can somewhat transmogrified continue our transportation.
The metamorphosis that awaits at the cross roads, or the junction of ways gives us a chance to look at the roads not chosen as different fates, or potential we have the chance to transmogrify into the pupa and to transfigure through the imago and transmute into the butterfly that flutters down the right road, or the best road, or the only road beating our wind evoking wings as we proceed and progress in due procession to our ultimate goal.
The Chthonic Hekate is underwhelmed in the underworld by the sparkle of the above and the dark intentions from below that make some of the sparkle. She knows the outcome of each of the ways ways available to us. She might like to be acknowledged, but that does not mean that she will share her knowledge, unfortunately she is happy to leave us in self-knowledge that is mis-knowledge. The Triple Form of Hekate is full within the three phases and yet there is also a Forth Form. Her light in the darkness includes sparking, lighting, spluttering and also none igniting. Her symbol of three Moon in reflected illumination is also a symbol brightly obscuring her other form within the Dark, or New Moon. She is happy in the dark with her unilluminated vision and her brightness in the Full Moon also knows the New Moon visible on the horizon for just a few moments. Called for and sought at the Trivia Three Ways and crossroads also asked for and answered within the home where all junctions are started and ended and where insight and protection are often most required. From the ignition of Fresh Flame to Full Light through Dying Embers and within Extinguished Ashes she is never absent always available if you call on her without subconscious desire, rather with intent to take her hand with resolve to lead you on towards where you aspire.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
One roads leads to two and suddenly there is a junction for traffic and the scope for decision, revision and division til contemplation arrives at cognition and transmigration induced by transmutation, we can somewhat transmogrified continue our transportation.
The metamorphosis that awaits at the cross roads, or the junction of ways gives us a chance to look at the roads not chosen as different fates, or potential we have the chance to transmogrify into the pupa and to transfigure through the imago and transmute into the butterfly that flutters down the right road, or the best road, or the only road beating our wind evoking wings as we proceed and progress in due procession to our ultimate goal.
The Chthonic Hekate is underwhelmed in the underworld by the sparkle of the above and the dark intentions from below that make some of the sparkle. She knows the outcome of each of the ways ways available to us. She might like to be acknowledged, but that does not mean that she will share her knowledge, unfortunately she is happy to leave us in self-knowledge that is mis-knowledge. The Triple Form of Hekate is full within the three phases and yet there is also a Forth Form. Her light in the darkness includes sparking, lighting, spluttering and also none igniting. Her symbol of three Moon in reflected illumination is also a symbol brightly obscuring her other form within the Dark, or New Moon. She is happy in the dark with her unilluminated vision and her brightness in the Full Moon also knows the New Moon visible on the horizon for just a few moments. Called for and sought at the Trivia Three Ways and crossroads also asked for and answered within the home where all junctions are started and ended and where insight and protection are often most required. From the ignition of Fresh Flame to Full Light through Dying Embers and within Extinguished Ashes she is never absent always available if you call on her without subconscious desire, rather with intent to take her hand with resolve to lead you on towards where you aspire.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
...September 2019...
Getting places on time had never been Charlie's strong suit, not that she had ever cared to change it much until she got to Hogwarts. See, there was something intensely motivating about the knowledge that you could be transfigured into a pocket watch if you showed up after the bell rang.
taken @Mischief Managed SL
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St Mark's Basilica
Basilica di San Marco
The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark
Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco
Location: Venice, Italy
Denomination: Catholic Church
Consecrated: 8 October 1094
Titular saint: Mark the Evangelist
Designation: Cathedral (minor basilica)
1807–present
Episcopal see: Patriarchate of Venice
Prior status
Designation: Ducal chapel
c. 836–1797
Tutelage: Doge of Venice
Built: c. 829–c. 836
Rebuilt: c. 1063–1094
Styles: Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Basilica
www.basilicasanmarco.it/?lang=en
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THE ASCENSION CUPOLA
In the centre of the basilica, at the intersection with the transept, the dome celebrates the concluding mystery of the life of Jesus: his Ascension to heaven.
The decoration of the Ascension cupola, dating to the second half of the 12th century, is the mosaic masterpiece of St. Mark’s and the heart of the church’s spiritual message. It is considered to be the best mosaic expression in the whole church for structure, quality and preservation.
In the starry circle of the centre Christ, seated on a rainbow, is drawn heavenwards by four flying angels. Below, in a great concentric circle, the Virgin between two angels and the 12 apostles are gazing upwards, alternated by plants of various forms and sizes, suggesting the messianic environment of the mount of olives where Luke situates the episode of the Ascension.
Farther below, between the windows, there are sixteen female figures in a dancing sequence personifying the Virtues and Beatitudes: Hope, Faith, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance, Prudence, Humility, Gentleness, Contrition, Abstinence, Mercy, Patience, Chastity, Modesty, Constancy and Charity, this last crowned and in royal garments, “mother of all the virtues” as suggested by the inscription surrounding her.
Here we have the three theological virtues (Faith, Hope and Charity), the four moral virtues (Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance) and then another nine virtues that are an integral part, in accordance with the mediaeval concept, of the four moral virtues. If the Ascension scene has an illustrious Byzantine precedent in the cupola of St. Sophia’s in Salonika (11th century) the setting of the sixteen Virtues is absolutely Venetian.
On the spandrels the four Evangelists are writing the beginning of their Gospels: each one is schematised from the side in his study and the four symbols already seen in the presbytery cupola spandrels are lacking. The two cupolas are correlated inasmuch as in the presbytery the Evangelists merely outline salvation whereas in the Ascension cupola it is openly manifested. Each Evangelist holds his own Gospel open at the first words.
Beneath, the four biblical rivers – Gihon, Pison, Tigris, Euphrates – pour their waters on the community of the faithful, here too with clear baptismal symbology.
The Greek master who, with his assistants, created this cycle has been defined as the “agitato style” master. There could be no more suitable definition of this mosaicist who, in the creation of these scenes of the Death, Resurrection and Ascent, expresses all the dramatic tension and renewal of humanity and the universe. He manipulates the line in a myriad of curves that delineate the faces and create highly complicated folds that wind in broad spirals, spreading out into elegant fan-shaped drapery and extending in an extremely harmonious fluttering that recalls Hellenic solutions
The colours used are the most precious, all obtained by mixing the vitreous paste with lapis lazuli, copper, gold, silver or iron; and when the chromatic element and the luminosity of the enamels were not enough to render immaterial and transfigure an image, highlighting was carried out with gold, silver and whites. While the human faces of the apostles are highlighted in black, those of Christ, the Virgin and the angels have bright highlighting that gives the impression of a divine light emanating from the faces themselves.
The Revolution Of The Seven Silent Keys - The Moon Key - The Week Of Candles And Prayers by Daniel Arrhakis (2022)
With the music : Audiomachine - When Darkness Falls
The Revolution Of The Seven Silent Keys - The Mystic Resistance Heptagram Of Ion
In the past our Order went through very difficult times and it was not always possible to reveal itself, in fact it has always remained in a certain way in the shadows, hidden but active.
During one of those times when Despots ruled kingdoms or nations imposing repression and persecution without mercy, the order was forced to create a form of silent struggle that could in time defeat the oppressors ... we called "The Revolution Of The Seven Silent Keys" .
Seven Silent Keys that transfigure seven actions of struggle that are developed in secret over time by societies that were subjected to extremely repressive, controlling and autocratic regimes.
The Moon Key - The Week Of Candles And Prayers
The Moon governs our internal world and emotions. It has a yin quality and is represented by the Water element. In the conception of the Hectogram of Ion Resistance, the Moon has a feminine symbolism, cyclical like the tides, linked to the mother figure in particular, to intuition and the subconscious.
Symbol of protection and inner wisdom but also of faith, hope and spiritual resistance even in the darkest night of our lives. Its light is reflected in the waters and is represented in the light of candles and lamps that light up our nights and our prayers.
The Moon Key, as the name implies, represents the vertex of the Moon of our Mystic Heptagram of Resistance and as such corresponds to the Monday of the week, with the intention that the first stage of this silent struggle begins on that day.
This struggle is dedicated to Mary's suffering and therefore a tribute to the courage and suffering of all mothers when they see their children suffering as well as their struggle to save them especially in catastrophes, major conflicts, wars or situations of state repression.
But it can be dedicated to another female mystical personality in other religions as long as the symbolism is similar.
Starting on Monday night, everyone is expected to light a candle at the window of their house, monastery or any other building that can be seen from the street. This process is repeated every day until Friday night.
On Saturday night people should gather in squares, city squares, next to temples but not entering them, or symbolic monuments and pray for peace with a candle for at least an hour but without any posters or slogans denouncing any protest, words of protest against governments and their figures as well as provocative words; repressive reactions from the police forces should be avoided.
The protest must be made in silence and with prayers for peace and must preclude any violence. In case of being questioned, they must say that they are there for "Peace in the World" or " For Love to the Next" or "For Love to Mary", the symbols must be the doves of peace or flowers, the words Peace and Love, the colors must be only white or white and yellow.
Finally, on Sunday, which in the case of the Eastern Orthodox Church is dedicated to the Resurrection of the Lord, people who profess this religion must go to church and light a candle for peace; others who profess other creeds will do so on days devoted to their own rites.
This week must be repeated if necessary 8 weeks later, therefore two months after the first and so on until the end of the protest or until you achieve your goals.
Before and throughout the week, these actions must be publicized among friends, neighbors, associations, on social platforms, by written messages (that can be accompanied with a symbol of peace like a Dove for example or a Key or both ) that can be left on a garden bench, in the public transports, on a coffee table or even electronically by other processes, but always in a discreet and symbolically appealing to unity for peace.
If you have confidence, you can refer this silent struggle and its objectives, but only to those who you have confidence.
SÉRIE SPÉCIALE :
LE MOMENT
AU MÊME ENDROIT QUE LA CROIX EN PIERRE DU COEUR, PAS LOIN, IL Y A UNE CROIX SUR SOCLE DE PIERRE.
A UN MOMENT ELLE S'EST TRANSFIGURÉE TOTALEMENT ALORS QUE DE MATIÈRE ELLE EST EN FER PEINTE DE COULEUR ROUGE.
QUELQUE CHOSE M'A TRANSPERCÉE,
QUELQUE CHOSE S'EST RÉVÉLÉ,
QUELQUE CHOSE D'INDICIBLE,
QUELQUE CHOSE DE DÉFINITIF.
OUI LE CHEMIN D"AMOUR N'EST AUTRE QUE LE PASSAGE PAR LA CROIX....PRENEZ-LÀ À SA SUITE ET
A I M E Z COMME IL NOUS A A I M É S
L'ENDROIT L'EXPRIME TANT !
NE TROUVEZ-VOUS PAS CHERS AMIS D'ICI !
VOILÀ POURQUOI JE VOUS PARTAGE ,
CE MOMENT DIEU
ALLÉLUIA !
DIKÉE
La Sainte-Chapelle, joyau du style gothique rayonnant, se dresse sur l’île de la Cité à Paris, presque comme un bijou serti sur la Seine. Construite au XIIIᵉ siècle sous le règne de Saint Louis (Louis IX) pour abriter les reliques de la Passion du Christ, elle se distingue par sa verticalité élancée et son éclat presque irréel.
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L’édifice se compose de deux niveaux :
La chapelle basse, sombre et plus massive, servait aux serviteurs et à la vie quotidienne du palais royal. Ses voûtes sculptées et ses colonnes robustes évoquent la solidité et la gravité.
La chapelle haute, véritable chef-d’œuvre, semble défier la pesanteur. Ici, la lumière joue un rôle central : des vitraux gigantesques occupent presque toutes les surfaces murales, peignant des récits bibliques de mille couleurs chatoyantes. Le soleil, filtrant à travers le verre, transforme l’intérieur en un espace presque mystique, où l’histoire sacrée prend vie dans un kaléidoscope lumineux. Les arcs-boutants délicats et les rayonnages finement sculptés accentuent la légèreté et l’élévation spirituelle de l’édifice.
La Sainte-Chapelle n’est pas seulement un monument religieux : elle est un poème de lumière et de pierre, un hymne à la foi et à l’art médiéval.
La Sainte-Chapelle peut être lue comme un poème architectural :
Lumière comme vers : Les vitraux deviennent les strophes du poème, où chaque couleur raconte une histoire biblique, chaque rayon de soleil est une ponctuation divine. L’intérieur semble flotter dans un espace hors du temps, comme si la lumière elle-même écrivait sur les murs.
Verticalité comme rythme : Les lignes élancées, les arcs et les colonnes font monter le regard vers le ciel. La verticalité impose une cadence, un souffle qui élève l’âme, un rythme où la pierre et la lumière dansent ensemble.
Harmonie des détails : Les sculptures, les vitraux et les ornements créent des rimes visuelles. Chaque détail, bien que minuscule, résonne avec l’ensemble, comme dans un poème où chaque mot compte et enrichit le sens global.
Transcendance et émotion : La chapelle transforme l’espace physique en espace spirituel. Le spectateur n’est plus simplement observateur : il devient lecteur d’une écriture lumineuse qui touche le cœur.
La Sainte-Chapelle est donc un poème que l’on lit avec les yeux, mais surtout avec l’âme.
Voici une version poétique inspirée de la Sainte-Chapelle :
Sainte-Chapelle, poème de lumière
Sur l’île où la Seine murmure des légendes,
Se dresse un cristal de pierre, élancé vers l’azur,
Où le soleil, en messager des cieux,
Écrit des récits en mille couleurs suspendues.
Chaque vitrail est un vers, chaque scène une strophe,
La Passion, la Gloire, la Foi transfigurée,
Et la lumière glisse sur les murs comme un souffle
Qui fait danser le temps dans l’éclat des vitraux sacrés.
Les colonnes sont des rimes qui montent et s’élancent,
Les arcs-boutants des refrains qui soutiennent le ciel,
La pierre devient plume, et le souffle de l’âme
S’élève, vibrant, au-dessus du monde terrestre.
Ici, l’œil lit, mais le cœur comprend,
La Sainte-Chapelle n’est pas bâtie, elle est chantée :
Un hymne silencieux, un poème suspendu
Entre le sol des hommes et l’infini des anges.
CES PHOTOS NE SONT PAS À VENDRE ET NE PEUVENT PAS ÊTRE REPRODUITES, MODIFIÉES, REDIFFUSÉES, EXPLOITÉES COMMERCIALEMENT OU RÉUTILISÉES DE QUELQUE MANIÈRE QUE CE SOIT.
UNIQUEMENT POUR LE PLAISIR.
Mystic Water - Ion symbolism by Daniel Arrhakis (2019)
With the music : Crypt of Insomnia - Lunaris | Beautiful Dramatic Orchestral Vocal Music
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In the Mystical World of Ion water has a transcendental role and a feminine character is also synonymous of duality and change or inner transformation.
If on the one hand it is the cradle of life and the source on which we quench thirst on the other hand is the symbolism of perseverance, resistance and hope. Their passage continues to erode the rocks, however hard they are, and in the same way extinguishes the flames of unquietness.
But it is also the life expectancy for the seeds that the farmer throws to the earth and the waters of the fountains that we drink or of that sea of life that we love so much.
Its duality is also one of its qualities if the sound of water running in the river or the rain that falls sweetly in those winter days are peace-keepers of the soul and somehow invites to contemplation, it is also certain that in the great storms its character rebel demonstrates his will to indomitable Freedom.
It is purity when it touches us on the face or blesses us in its simplicity but also its permanent change of physical state alerts us to mutability and the permanent inconstancy of our life that can change at any moment. In a way it alerts us in its cycles of change to be prepared for the transformations that life can bring us and the need to be perseverant face to adversity.
In certain spiritual contemplative days of simplicity that we take for us own, water or herbal infusions (with little or no sugar) and bread are the only ones elements that should be present accompanied by prayers and or essential energy funding that exists in universe using contact with the natural world (forests, parks, coastal areas, etc.) and refraining from worries or conflicts.
Like water that always chooses the easiest way to run on gravity, as serious as our problems may seem in the vast majority of cases they always have a simpler resolution; often a good night's sleep is an excellent counselor. Gentleness and respect for all living beings, simplicity and honesty in our actions with a sincere smile help us to accept others and ourselves better.
Although there are baptismal rituals in the Mystic World of Ion, it is reserved only for adults who accept it in their free will and have reached more advanced spiritual stages.
The change of state of water is one of its most intrinsic properties and transfigures the change or inner transformation.
The passage through the various states (solid, gaseous, or liquid) are intermediate stages of matter, and their symbolism also encompasses the change and spiritual transformation that develops within us along our temporal lines.
Change is the motor of evolution and learning, without change the world lived in stagnation and does not evolve, so we also have stages of life that have their beginning and end and so we should not fear change especially if it is to better for ourselves or for others.
The most difficult transformation is always the interior and is the one in which we must always focus our efforts; the external or visual transformation, though important, only strengthens our ego, and it always has an egoistic character.
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O Simbolismo Da Água no Mundo Místico De Ion
No Mundo Místico de Ion a água tem uma papel transcendental e um carácter feminino sendo também sinónimo de dualidade e de mudança ou transformação interior.
Se por um lado é o berço da vida e a fonte na qual saciamos a sede por outro lado é o simbolismo da preserverança, da resistência e da esperança. A sua passagem continua erode as rochas por mais duras que elas sejam e da mesma forma apaga as chamas da inqietude. Mas também é a esperança de vida para as sementes que o agricultor deita à terra e das águas das fontes que bebemos ou daquele mar cheio de vida que tanto amamos.
A sua dualidade é também uma das suas qualidades se o som da água a correr no rio ou da chuva que cai docemente naqueles dias de inverno são apaziguadores da alma e de certa forma convida à contemplação, também é certo que nas grandes tempestades o seu carácter revoltoso demonstra a sua vontade de Liberdade indomável.
Ela é a pureza quando nos toca na face ou nos abençoa na sua simplicidade mas também a sua permanente mudança de estado físico alerta-nos para mutabilidade e a inconstância permanente da nossa vida que pode mudar a qualquer momento. De certa forma alerta-nos nos seus ciclos de mudança para estarmos preparados para as transformações que a vida nos pode trazer e a necessidade de sermos perseverantes para enfrentarmos a adversidade.
No Mundo Místico de Ion a água tem um papel depurativo, quer na nossa higiene diária, quer ao ser bebida todos os dias de forma pausada naturalmente ou na forma de infusões.
Em certos dias contemplativos espirituais de despojamento e que retiramos para nós proprios, a água ou infusões de plantas (com pouco ou nenhum açúcar) e o pão serão os únicos elementos que deverão estar presentes acompanhados de orações e ou captações da energia essencial que existe no universo usando o contacto com o mundo natural ( florestas, parques, zonas costeiras, etc. ) e abstendo-se de preocupações ou de conflitualidades.
Tal como a água que escolhe sempre o caminho mais fácil para correr em função da gravidade, por mais sérios que nossos problemas possam parecer, na grande maioria dos casos eles têm sempre uma resolução simples; muitas vezes uma boa noite de sono é uma excelente conselheira. Gentileza e respeito por todos os seres vivos, simplicidade e honestidade em nossas acções com um sorriso sincero ajudam-nos a aceitar melhor os outros e a nós mesmos.
Embora existam rituais baptismais no Mundo Místico de Ion, ele é reservado apenas para adultos que os aceitam em seu livre arbítrio e alcançaram estágios espirituais mais avançados.
A Mudança de estado da água é uma das suas mais intrínsecas propriedades e transfigura a mudança ou transformação interior.
A passagem pelos vários estados (sólido, gasoso ou liquido) são estágios intermédios da matéria e o seu simbolismo abrange também a mudança e a transformação espiritual que se desenvolve dentro de nós ao longo das nossas linhas temporais.
A mudança é o motor da evolução e da aprendizagem, sem mudança o Mundo vivia na estagnação e não evoluía, assim também nós temos etapas da vida que têm o seu principio e fim e por isso não devemos temer a mudança em especial se esta for para melhor seja para nós próprios ou para os outros.
A transformação mais difícil é sempre a interior e é aquela em que devemos concentrar sempre os nossos esforços; a transformação exterior ou visual embora importante apenas reforça o nosso ego e este tem sempre um carácter egoísta.
be yourself no matter what they say
"He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment he would be transfigured. Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment."
J.Joyce
(revisited)
It is not a question of silence or speech, but rather that the transfiguring energy given in silence is expanded and integrated by making us attempt interpretation through speech, while in the same moment insights that arise from speech deepen and expand us again into the silence.
-Maggie Ross, Writing the Icon of the Heart: In Silence Beholding (Eugene, OR, Cascade Books, 2013), p. 89.
Alter Ego
Elisabetta Meneghello & Peter Seelig
2018-04-13 - 2018-05-19
Cafe Hegelhof, Johannesgasse 16, A-1010 Wien
A designed organism
Roberto Borghi
Elisabetta Meneghello and Peter Seelig create their works four-handedly, following their own inspiration and at the same time leaving room for chance. However, there is a huge difference between chance and arbitrariness. What makes the first something more than mere confusion is the possibility of identifying an underlying pattern to it, a deeper meaning and a range of creational options that somehow lead to enlightening outcomes.
Meneghello and Seelig’s paintings remind me of the montage theory of Sergei Eisenstein – the director, among other things, of the epic Battleship Potemkin. According to Eisenstein, editing a film is a bit like writing in Japanese, the editing of the shots resembling the juxtaposing of ideograms. In both circumstances, the result is more than just the sum of its components. In fact, the result amounts to a whole new entity, an image endowed with its own meaning that sums up but at the same time transcends that of the pre-existing ones.
In Meneghello and Seelig’s works, this new entity results from what the two artists individually contribute to the same pictorial surface. I like to call it a “designed organism”, where the word “organism” ought be interpreted in a non-anatomical sense. This organism is not, in other words, a part of a body, but rather – inevitably and paradoxically – a segment of a figure, or a whole figure in its own right. Thus understood, the final work evokes somatic impressions, and as such it can be perceived as an organism while at the same time keeping its immaterial nature: it tends to give itself a structure and to coalesce into a geometry. From the seeming internal chaos new images are born, yet behind them one can identify visual patterns that disentangle the inextricable accumulation of colors and shapes.
More often than not, the intertwinement of shapes inevitably evokes the infantile sphere, the absolute freedom of play. Nonetheless, to play a game one needs rules, just as one needs to develop a central theme in order to make a point. Through these paintings runs a theme that is not merely metaphorical: to appreciate them fully one needs to identify the beginning of the pictorial mark, follow its path all the way through vortices, accumulations of silhouettes, amoeboid shapes, sketchy primordial beasts…
At times, the painting takes the form of a plan(t). Here the ambiguity of the term is deliberate: the “plan(t)” is a new notion that conflates and transfigures, like Japanese ideograms, two pre-existing semantic elements: a botanical one – the plant as a tree – and an architectural one – the plan as a design for a building. Let us pause on the latter for a moment. As shown by the drawings of many early twentieth-century architects (most notably Le Corbusier), architectural plans can assume the shape of a face. Lest we forget, some of the paintings presented here seem to remind us of the deep link between architecture and the features of a face, as attested by the origin of the word “façade”. So there, the faces that emerge from some of Meneghello and Seelig’s paintings really look like enigmatic, intriguing façades.
The argument pursued so far was purportedly as paradoxical as the title of the exhibition it sought to introduce. QuiNonÈAdesso – HereIsNotNow – means for the two authors primarily the non-identity of space and time, the mismatch of recollection and experience, the questionable reliability of one’s own intuitions and actions. However, “here” and “now” may also be conceived of as two Japanese ideograms: we do not know what would result from juxtaposing them. We may even think of them as two frames from a creative, ever-evolving footage that are edited into an open-ended film. But remember: the film’s ending is by no means arbitrary. Quite the opposite. It aims at communicating a message.
#4HandPainting #ElisabettaMeneghello #PeterSeelig
In Situ - Aubervilliers (France)
En 2014, 40 artistes urbains ont été réunis en secret pendant plusieurs semaines dans le Fort d’Aubervilliers. Leur mission : transfigurer cette friche industrielle mystérieuse et méconnue pour l’ouvrir au public.
In 2014, 40 urban artists have been brought together in secret for several weeks in the Fort of Aubervilliers. Their mission: to transform this mysterious and little-known industrial wasteland to open to the public.
One roads leads to two and suddenly there is a junction for traffic and the scope for decision, revision and division til contemplation arrives at cognition and transmigration induced by transmutation, we can somewhat transmogrified continue our transportation.
The metamorphosis that awaits at the cross roads, or the junction of ways gives us a chance to look at the roads not chosen as different fates, or potential we have the chance to transmogrify into the pupa and to transfigure through the imago and transmute into the butterfly that flutters down the right road, or the best road, or the only road beating our wind evoking wings as we proceed and progress in due procession to our ultimate goal.
The Chthonic Hekate is underwhelmed in the underworld by the sparkle of the above and the dark intentions from below that make some of the sparkle. She knows the outcome of each of the ways ways available to us. She might like to be acknowledged, but that does not mean that she will share her knowledge, unfortunately she is happy to leave us in self-knowledge that is mis-knowledge. The Triple Form of Hekate is full within the three phases and yet there is also a Forth Form. Her light in the darkness includes sparking, lighting, spluttering and also none igniting. Her symbol of three Moon in reflected illumination is also a symbol brightly obscuring her other form within the Dark, or New Moon. She is happy in the dark with her unilluminated vision and her brightness in the Full Moon also knows the New Moon visible on the horizon for just a few moments. Called for and sought at the Trivia Three Ways and crossroads also asked for and answered within the home where all junctions are started and ended and where insight and protection are often most required. From the ignition of Fresh Flame to Full Light through Dying Embers and within Extinguished Ashes she is never absent always available if you call on her without subconscious desire, rather with intent to take her hand with resolve to lead you on towards where you aspire.
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Embrace the charm and whimsy of "The Burrow" – where the enchantment of magic meets the coziness of home! No need for staircases when you can simply teleport up in true wizarding style. Come explore every nook and cranny, with animesh magical items that bring the world to life, from self-sweeping brooms (your free gift!) to a fireplace that's more than meets the eye.
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"I am the spring, the holy ground
The endless seed of mystery
The thorn, the veil, the face of grace
Brazen image, the thief of sleep
The ambassador of dreams, Prince of peace
I am the sword, the wound, the stain
Scorned, transfigured child of Cain
I rend, I end, I return
Again, I am the salt, the bitter laugh
I am the gas in a womb of light, the evening star
The ball of sight that leads that sheds the tears of Christ
Dying and drying as I rise tonight
(Isabella, we are rising)"...
Patti Smith Group / Easter...