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Being a little Big Headed here
"I love this one"
Artist's Statement:
This painting captures the serene yet striking beauty of Bennachie, a local landmark mountain, set against the stillness of winter. The mountain, although central to the landscape, is depicted distantly, preceded by a row of defoliated trees that form the midground of this composition. These trees, stripped of their leaves, stand in stark contrast to the soft, diffused light that filters through them, creating an interplay of light and shadow on the snow-covered field in the foreground.
The snowy field, brushed in subtle tones of blue, grey, and faint purples, reflects the quiet chill of the season, while the sunlight, streaming from the right side of the painting, bathes the scene in a gentle warmth that hints at the promise of spring. The sky, with its random display of colours and expressive brushwork, dissolves into abstraction, allowing the trees' branches to dissolve into tiny twigs and merge with the ethereal background.
My intention was to create a piece that leans into an abstract or impressionist style, where the focus is less on the precise details of the landscape and more on the emotional and atmospheric essence of the scene. Through this approach, I sought to evoke the feeling of winter’s quiet beauty, while allowing the viewer’s imagination to fill in the gaps where detail fades into abstraction.
Holding a physical record, carefully placing it on the turntable, and watching it spin creates a more intimate and ritualistic music experience for me compared to the immediacy of streaming.
Highly compressed digital files can sometimes sound thin or lack warmth, I believe that vinyl offers a richer, more full-bodied sound due to its analog nature. I love Collecting and Building a vinyl collection for me it’s rewarding, and record stores (new and secondhand) offer a unique browsing experience for discovering new and old music. Buying vinyl directly supports the artists and labels, as they often receive a higher percentage of the revenue compared to streaming services. Vinyl evokes a sense of nostalgia for a bygone era of music listening, connecting me back when I looked towards my future.
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad. (Source: Wikipedia).
Freiheitsstatue
Die Freiheitsstatue ist eine von Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi geschaffene neoklassizistische Kolossalstatue bei New York. Sie steht auf Liberty Island im New Yorker Hafen, wurde am 28. Oktober 1886 eingeweiht und ist ein Geschenk des französischen Volkes an die Vereinigten Staaten. Die Statue ist seit 1924 Teil des Statue of Liberty National Monument und seit 1984 als Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO klassifiziert. (Quelle: Wikipedia)
The Princess Bride evokes a nostalgic feeling in me...it was a time when I was young and also before I even knew that evil people like Trump existed but Prince Humperdink did seem pretty bad.
Chiditarod is a magical time space where all elements of pop culture share the same space in order to raise money for charity but one thing I've noticed is how current fads may come and go but the older films and references are solid and return.
When someone asked me what my favorite cart was for the year, I told him I supposed it was The Princess Bride because of my fondness of the film. He didn't understand why so many girls liked the film. I told him it was because it had everything-mystery, romance, dueling, battle of wits....what film has a fire swamp and a slow tolerance to iocane powder in the same film? Plus, Andre the Giant!
But, I admitted it wasn't a perfect film. For one, there's no people of color in the film aside from Mandy Patinkin who is Jewish and when Andre the Giant puts on a "Holocaust Cloak" it is (rightfully) scary but also black and this isn't lost on me. Why is black scary?
Anyway, if we lived in a perfect world where I was still a kid and racism didn't exist, the Perfect Bride would be closer to perfect as well.
I still really loved this cart. But, it wasn't the cynical every day me who loved it. It was the child in me who wanted the world to be a better place.
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Most sunsets are golden. However, I decided to do an unusual makeover for this sunset capture. Can you let me know if it works for you, and what emotion does it evoke in you?
Peinture murale par l’artiste canadienne Megan Oldhues au 93 Rue Ferdinand Buisson à Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Megan Oldhues donne vie à une scène poétique et sereine dans sa dernière fresque murale qui capture un moment paisible du quotidien : une femme cuisinant avec son chat dans les bras, une image qui peut paraître banale, mais qui véhicule un message profond sur le bien-être et la beauté du quotidien.
La fresque elle-même symbolise la lumière et la réflexion, représentée par une forme circulaire lumineuse que la femme contemple calmement. Ce sentiment d'introspection ajoute un message universel : prendre soin de soi et trouver du sens dans des rituels silencieux est un acte puissant.
Le travail de Megan Oldhues mêle art figuratif et nature morte, évoquant des souvenirs universels et des scènes paisibles. Avec une sensibilité poétique et une utilisation subtile des couleurs, ses murales apportent calme et réflexion dans la rue, invitant les passants à s'arrêter et à se reconnecter – avec eux-mêmes et avec l'art.
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Mural by Canadian artist Megan Oldhues at 93 Rue Ferdinand Buisson in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Megan Oldhues brings a poetic, serene scene to life in her latest mural which captures a peaceful everyday moment: a woman cooking while holding her cat, an image that may seem ordinary but carries a deeper message about self-care and the beauty of daily life.
The mural itself symbolizes light and reflection, shown through a glowing circular shape the woman gazes at calmly. This sense of introspection adds a universal message: caring for oneself and finding meaning in quiet rituals is a powerful act.
Megan Oldhues' work blends figurative art and still life, evoking universal memories and peaceful scenes. With poetic sensitivity and subtle color use, her murals bring calm and reflection to the street, inviting passersby to pause and reconnect—with themselves and with art.
Source: streetartcities.com/cities/boulogne-sur-mer/markers/c57ea...
This storm wasn't the big one that was predicted for our area. We ended up with about 3" of snow - enough to blanket the landscape and evoke some winter magic.
I set out for a walk with my Reto UWS and a roll of Ultrafine that had been loaded in it for months. Between the plastic lens and stand developing ISO 400 film, the resulting images were fairly crunchy.
Corie's a fellow photographer, which makes it an added joy to shoot her, as I don't have to stop to explain things, and can instead strip-mine her brain for tips and such.
I also got the sense that (and I could of course be way off-base, here) she's not a strange person.
I say that because I AM a strange person, and every once in awhile I'd notice her get a subtle, "boy, he's a bit strange isn't he?" expression on her face.
But she didn't run screaming, or beg off with a hastily conceived excuse, so I guess it didn't go too badly.
Ah hell, who am I kidding, it went great! She's a great model, very relaxed, got a look I adore.
AND LOOK AT THESE GLASSES!!!!! SO AWESOME. Sorry. So awesome.
More Corie, up on the BLOG!
Miss Mouse Mailing her Card
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This image features a whimsical, watercolor illustration by Taryn Knight. It captures a charming scene of a mouse standing on snow, dressed in a plaid shirt, olive green dress, and green scarf, posting a letter into a green mailbox on a wooden post. The mouse is shown reaching up on tiptoes to mail the letter, with the background being blank, focusing all attention on the subject. The style is delicate and detailed, illustrating a cozy, quaint moment indicative of Taryn Knight's signature approach. The image evokes a warm, nostalgic feeling, emphasizing simple, heartwarming everyday activities
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I can't believe how many emotions these little towns around us evoke in me. I feel closer at home here than anyone else. Its like walking through history and listening to their stories. It just feels right. After walking around for a few hours and exploring we ended up at a little local store and talked to the owner and he told us about the city in it's glorious days, when all the neon signs still worked and the strrets where filled with life..now half the town is a ghost town... So sad to see it that way, but amazing to share this history with our children.
The first unearthed geosimian evoked a "whoa!" from geologists and anthropologists alike and got them scratching their noggins. They didn't at all know what to make of the thing. Replacement fossil of a shrunken ancestor? A rock that just looked like a higher primate? A carved effigy? If so, carved by who?
Then, the things started turning up everywhere. People began finding them in fieldstone walls, in cliffs, among river gravel. They were in ocean jetties, the monuments to our war dead, Indian mounds.
Of course, the more spiritually inclined either saw god at work or the devil at play. The stones were said to be revealed, revered and reviled, usually in that order.
It soon became apparent that interspecies mingling was occurring in the rocks. Men and monkeys were breeding with reptiles and insects. It was all too much for religion and science both, so, in a way, what happened next had to happen. Geosimians were written off the books as outmoded, imaginative theory, not worthy of consideration. So they disappeared. Blended right back into the stratum.
Cone observador da Evoke nas ruas de SP. Intervenções urbanas convidam o espectador a refletir sobre o ambiente em que vivem.
This HYBYCOZO sculpture is titled Point of View is in the Kitchell Family Heritage Garden.
Point of View 2022
Stainless Steel, Powder Coat Pigment, LED
This sculpture's patterns draw inspiration from Ukrainian cross-stitching, a traditional folk art from Ukraine, the birthplace of HYBYCOZO artist Yelena Flipchuk. This tribute to her cultural origins invites visitors to reflect on grief, resilience, joy, and the yearning for peace.
Please spin artwork gently.
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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.
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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
Azhara- A delicate sparkling form
Bordeaux- From the South of France. Fait Main, hand made wire work to evoke a Provencal
setting anywhere.
Cimarron- I was searching for something to represent the Wind Horses of Tibet - but ended up
in the Southwest. Inspired by Silver and leather work outfitting horses all over
the globe.
Lancaster- Detail of feather quilting from the Pennsyvania Dutch region. Set in a straightforward
silhouette. Yeah, Amish quilts. ( I hand quilt, and have been fortunate to see
whole collections in person)
Helena- From the archives. An early original piece from Anne. Cleaned it up & made them
standard sizes. A simple and practical style.
Tamarai- From the souks. The White Lotus.
Quill- Suggests a time of prosperity and comfort, with ample time to think and create in the
study. I wanted an English author's name, but they didn't roll off the tongue.
Sometimes these get arbitrarily changed on me, but usually they stick....we'll see!
One time I wanted to call a piece Sonoma, and was openly ridiculed in front of everyone by an owner. "What kind of a name is that?"
Right after, same season, Martha Stewart had some Sonoma stuff....
That rock evokes a face (well, an alien face, but, a face!) serenely contemplating the water and reflected trees.
Rotated 90 degrees, an old D90 image from a stop at Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park back in 2014.
RAW file edited in View NX-I, additional adjustments (fill light, clarity and vibrancy) added in Corel Paintshop Pro.
These Six images are reflected versions of,
Mediobogdum Roman Fort Wall slightly rebuilt defending history and evoking mystery against a backdrop of towering majesty in Eskdale 1 of 4
This historic site needs no reflection to admire the work of our ancestors and of nature, but the reflections do add to my consideration and appreciation.
Evening approaches and the shadow slightly encroaches on your imagination building and extending possible former construction and stirring ideas of formal occupation and informal habitation. This fort is built near the mountain passes that vehicles struggle across. To see the well set stone amongst the transformed landscape is to be amongst living food for the soul. Well it is if you have your way of enjoying history.
The feelings so easily generated here give you an insight into the way we humans focus on an importance and build around it, but when our human systems change we walk away from our former focus and take away the resources we were investing. Then the historic value gives us focus renewed to map, to rebuild a little and to conserve the memory making place. The history of this one Roman Fort positioned along a trade route near the edge of a vast Empire still standing near the narrow single track byway that never attracted industrial traffic and road building tells us much about ourselves and human interest.
Mediobogdum Roman Fort on Hardknott Pass in the Lake District has some great slightly rebuilt ruins. The light on this evening was a splendid Sun bath and banquet lighting the way to older notions and even initiation upon a ladder of lights that illuminated all of the ways to become enlightened, ignited and rejoicing in the light. This remote mountain pass with amazing ruin is an almost unbelievable location to find history and to enjoy mystery.
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HARDKNOTT ROMAN FORT
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Frangipani
Nothing evokes that tropical feeling quite like the frangipani. Their sweet scent and sheer beauty make them universally loved and the blooms look sensational on the tree and as a cut flower. Pick up some freshly fallen blooms and float them in a bath or bowl of water and it's easy to feel you're relaxing in a fabulous tropical day spa!
Most familiar in their white and yellow form, they also come in loads of tropical and sunset colours, becoming more colourful the closer to the equator you go. Frangipanis are also tough plants that can survive neglect, heat and drought and still fill the garden with a wonderful perfume. What more could you ask for in a tree?
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There's something about mist shrouding distant hills that evokes a powerful feeling of wistfulness in me. C.S. Lewis captured this emotion so powerfully in the latter part of his novel, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader". There is a longing for "the far country", Aslan's country, and a recognition that something great awaits beyond the present, the known. That's the true magic of the Narnia series, and it was that wistfulness that is stirred in my soul as I look at this photo. I hope it inspires you in some way, too. You can watch my travel video that highlights both this beautiful location and how well the Tamron works as a travel lens: bit.ly/A071travel. Check out more A071 coverage:
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Art and Science, they say, are polar opposites that must not be forked together. One is intuitive, inductive, and sensory, while the other is analytical, deductive, and logical. They must be held apart, for they come from different places and evoke different things in the practitioner while suffocating and/or rewarding them in unlike ways.
Now, is that true?
Let’s take the example of the String theory – a theory, which at its crescendo, posits the existence of eleven dimensions around us: ten of space and one of time (M-theory). On the surface, string theory is the child of Science: an analytical idea that was deduced in a systematic and logical way. It divides all particles in the universe into two types: Bosons and Fermions, and from there, attempts to explore the universe at the highest level of abstraction. At dizzying heights of such abstraction, this theory posits that a staggering 10^520 universes (Multiverse) may exist folded within the theoretical ‘String landscape’ of 11 dimensions. Intuitively, such abstraction is useless for an artist, who often struggles to portray three regular dimensions within restrictions of the two dimensional canvas. Instead, imagine portraying all 11 dimensions on a flat surface… it is forbiddingly disorienting!
Disorientation is not limited to artists; scientists suffer at the hands of this theory too. The String theory cannot be experimentally proven, or more importantly, disproven. To many scientists, what cannot be tested is not science. Period. And yet, generations of physicists have pursued the String theory with a creative madness rivaled in intensity only by lunacy of geniuses like Beethoven, Schumann and Vincent van Gogh. So, who are these physicists working their paint in mathematical formalization for three decades trying to birth their ‘theory of everything’ in some tangible form? Are they scientists – because they are using impeccable mathematics in their art; or, are they artists – because they are applying their top creative sparks and imagination in their science?
So, at the risk of offending a few prigs and pundits, I will leave you with the idea that Science and Art are perhaps like Bosons and Fermions, which according to an even wilder version of string theory (Supersymmetry), are contained in one another: every Fermion has a Boson, and every Boson a Fermion.