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Actually I was here at the fantastic Praia do Castelejo in the Algarve for something completely different. For the sunset what is coming closer right behind me at this moment.
I was scouting the surroundings to find some compositions when I realised some movement in the water the distance. So I quickly changed to my telephoto lens and captured this scenery.
Eigentlich war ich hier am wunderschönen Praia do Castelejo in der Algarve wegen etwas ganz anderem, nämlich wegen dem Sonnenuntergang, der gerade hinter mir näher rückt.
Als ich die Gegend sondierte, um ein paar schöne Kompositionen zu finden, nahm ich aus dem Augenwinkel eine Bewegung im@Wasser in der Ferne war. Also schnell auf‘s Teleobjektiv gewechselt und die Szene festgehalten.
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acrylic on board
50 x 70cm
The painting began way back in 2000 in an art school class, working on the theme of crucifixion. I'd been brought up in a catholic tradition where suffering was a big theme. At the time, having had enough suffering for a while, I needed very much to reframe what this meant to me. I began by looking at the symbol of the cross from other traditions... including the construction industry :-) the cross is such a strong shape of connection.
Then I saw some work from artist Ngataiharuru Taepa,
a beautiful painted weaving.. where I found the same connection in the weft and warp.. in the strength and flexibility of two lines intersecting. So this work is also a tribute to Ngataiharuru Taepa's painting, which helped me into my own journey of weaving in paint.
the world of the immanent
and the world of the transient
hemispheres
intersecting
horizontal
and vertical
here and
beyond here
self and other
known and unknown
human and divine
we weave
our connections
This is a picture of the high building of the 'University of Amsterdam' on Roeterseiland reflecting another part of the same building with an angle of 90 degrees in the late afternoon sun. The rhythm of alternating areas with more or less distortions ànd the soft focus make this a multidimensional layered picture with an organic feel.
At least it works for me that way.
A first in the morning spider-web covered in soft dew. I can't even imagine the time it must've taken to complete these tiny connections in the web.
Here is a little quote I found about a spider-web from Shel Siverstein. I love the poem and will have to research and find out more about the author. But for now....read below, look, and enjoy!
A spider lives inside my head
Who weaves a strange and wondrous web
Of silken threads and silver strings
To catch all sorts of flying things,
Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles
And specks of dried-up tears,
And dust of dreams that catch and cling
For years and years and years....
--Shel Silverstein
I used mirror fx on this huge chunk of unfinished mural. you can see another shot of the building below in the comments.
Though I'm not particularly fond of the cold, I do enjoy the colors, textures, and unique scenes it paints that titillate my photographic eye.
Another of Niqui's creations this week. She's woven this fabric rainbow from long strips of coloured fabrics. Using an old bit of driftwood from the beach which has been in the garage for years, it is now hanging in our window (see my first comment).
A song for today, to mark D-Day
"It's a ticklish sort of job making a thing for a thing-ummy-bob
Especially when you don't know what it's for
But it's the girl that makes the thing that drills the hole
that holds the spring that works the thing-ummy-bob
that makes the engines roar. And it's the girl that makes the thing that holds the oil
that oils the ring that works the thing-ummy-bob
that's going to win the war."
More tree loveliness from Goring Heath, this time in black and white. Just preferred this to the colour version.
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Mural "Weaving Cultures" by Sam Kirk and Sandra Antongiorgi (2016) West 16th Street and South Blue Island Avenue, Chicago Illinois