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According to Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
Psalm 48:10
This is a close-cropped and rotated view of the modern-art sculpture Double Ascension in downtown Los Angeles.
Although I have posted a number of photos of the Getty Museum that focus on the many rounded curves in the building, these sinuous features are contrasted by a number of angular and blocky parts, especially the offices and non-public spaces within the complex. I like the clashing lines and patterns in this Dutch-angled shot.
Why is it that we find forms so intriguing, so beautiful? Why do we love order? What is it about geometry, about a simple circle, a triangle, a square--some basic parallel lines--that we find fascinating? And where is it that our idea of these forms come from? No where in nature do we find a perfect sphere, a perfect cube, a perfect tetrahedron. Certainly, we find forms that seem to resemble our ideals of perfection, but how did these ideals, where did this notion of perfection, first originate? We look to the heavens and seem to find order there, but is the order truly natural, or is it order applied to randomness by our own ideas? We also turn to the atomic and subatomic and seem to find perfect order and structure there, but does such order, structure, and perfection really exist, or does it simply seem to exist because of how we perceive it? Is there such thing as natural form and perfection? And what exactly is this idea of form, order, and perfection that we have?
The human imagination just fascinates me... It truly is the most beautiful thing there is, for it is the source of all beauty.
Why do we recognize order? Why do we recognize form?
Does order exist because we perceive it, or do we perceive because order exists?
And what is the source of order? What is the source of form? Is it something that has simply arisen out of our own imagination? Or does it have a definite manifestation beyond ourselves, which is the basis of ourselves and our imagination?
Which came first: form, or imagination?
An abstracted view of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco
The best detail is in the largest-sized view.
Hello deleteme.
I hope you like geometry, rationalism, simplicity, and conceptual pieces, because that's about the only crap you'll be seeing from me.
There will be of course some who think it is all "boring," "uninteresting," or pointless; I pity your lack of creative vision and the flat world you must live in.
Or perhaps I just find simple things more fascinating than they actually are...
The Union Bank Building was the first high-rise building constructed in downtown Los Angeles since the 1920s and the first to exceed the former 150-foot (45.7 m) height limit originally intended to prevent other buildings from dwarfing the City Hall building. This building was completed in 1968.
For Friends of RPS-WR: More on the cloud photo discussion... this being a representation of clouds which already appear somewhat 2-dimensional in nature.
29 x 48 inches
Fluid acrylics on canvas
2015
This is a reworking of a previous smaller piece of mine called Prurrurp.
A colorized view of the upper wall and ceiling of the Mariachi Plaza Metro station, part of the new Gold Line extension that opened in mid-November 2009. The triangular windows in the ceiling are set into the sidewalk of the plaza above.
I love how my long lens compresses distance! These are skyscrapers in LA's Financial District as seen from the Old Bank District, 5-6 blocks away.
30 x 30
Fluid acrylics on canvas
2015
You can see more of my paintings at my blog, Exploring Geometric Abstraction.
Vengeance is mine.
I told you I was going to do it... and here it is.
Friends, meet soldier68w.
I like to call him Soldier-Bot. :P
(This one is not so good on black...)
For Friends of RPS-WR...
This is an experiment with finding a proper framing for the digital medium for an abstract image that has large of amounts of white shades in the composition. Since this particular medium or Flickr is a white page, I've found that images with a lot of white in them are much better framed. Also, this not a heavily processed image and is not a macro.