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“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves" .... François de La Rochefoucauld
With thanks to….
Owl ~ Wouter de Bruijn
Clouds ~ Fractal Artist
~ Expore ~ #108 ~ Feb 20th, 2009 ~
Alternate take on this week's Looking Close... On Friday theme: Three.
The three wise monkeys are a Japanese pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"
The three monkeys are Mizaru, who sees no evil, covering his eyes; Kikazaru, who hears no evil, covering his ears; and Iwazaru, who speaks no evil, covering his mouth.
The proverb and the image are often used to refer to a lack of moral responsibility on the part of people who refuse to acknowledge impropriety, looking the other way or feigning ignorance. It seems like a visit from Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwasaru might be helpful at this moment in time...
Basic information courtesy Wikipedia.
Garden sculpture of an owl. The owl is the mascot of Temple University, where I went to med school with Hippocrates.
Day 156 of my 366 Project
she told me her name means wise little owl. it's true.
www.parenting.com/baby-names/girls/Shannon
whoops. little wise owl.
A wise old owl lived in an oak
The more he saw the less he spoke.
The less he spoke the more he heard...
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?
Whenever I see owls, I think of this fun quote. This owl was difficult to spot he was so quiet and still hiding behind the branches of the tree. I had to give it my best effort. Hope you like my peek-a-boo shot.
The heads of the impressive group of fifteen moai, located at Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island.
You can see more pics (from 2000 and 2013) in my Easter Island set.
This is the bulletin cover from our " Open Up and Say Ah" series at Four Corners Church.
It is our quest each time we create artwork for a new series to do something we haven't before and this is a perfect example. This cover is truly the advantage of having creative collaboration. We had come up with and shot a series of photos for the cover (see an example HERE) but Wiseacre had this idea swimming in his head. We had talked about it in brainstorming but dismissed it as too gruesome.
He did this image as an experiment but as the staff and I looked at it more, it embodied exactly what we wanted to say. We were about to move into a series on the book of James and the dangers of the mouth...capable of great good and evil. On this week we are looking what wisdom is...when do we hold our tongue...when do we speak.
Yes...this is grotesque. Yes...it is dark. But I can't take my eyes off of it and I hope you can't either. I think literary critic Gilbert Muller on Flannery O'Connor explains the rationale behind this cover best :
"...the grotesque does not function gratuitously, but in order to reveal underlying and essentially theological concepts."
must have had a wise teacher..this is where we found the owl :)
texture by skeletalmess
www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/collections/7215761567...
The four monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil. Sometimes there is a fourth monkey depicted with the three others; the last one, Shizaru, symbolizes the principle of "do no evil". He has shown crossing his arms.
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