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Waiting for a train one autumn morning, saw this pile of fallen maple leaves. A bright, colourful leaf had just fallen on the older, more faded ones.
To return to Gaston Bachelard’s psychoanalytic reflections on fire, this French philosopher wrote: We are almost certain that fire is precisely the first object, the first phenomenon, on which the human mind reflected; among all phenomena, fire alone is sufficiently prized by prehistoric man to wake in him the desire for knowledge, and this mainly because it accompanies the desire for love. And also: The conquest of the superfluous gives us a greater spiritual excitement than the conquest of the necessary. Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
--Christ in All Things Exploring Spirituality with Teilhard de Chadian Revised Edition Ursula King
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Have been busy playing with hot wax... though not a great deal to show for myself.... its very hard to photograph.... here is this morning's work... a leaf that's been pressed into slightly warm clear wax, then two colours of wax painted around it... finally the leaf removed and oil stick rubbed in to emphasize the veins and the edges.
The leaf was from a London Plane tree - many of which line the roads here in Bristol.
For Assignment52 Group ~ Assignment 48
Subjetc: Lines
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A few beautiful leafs are still coming off the trees here in Raleigh. I was thinking about this weeks assignment when I spotted this colorful leaf and noticed the distinct line patterns.
Taken at the Churchville Nature Center with my latest lens acquisition...the Minolta 70-210mm f/4 Beercan!