April 19, 2012

magic of the moment

magic of the moment, reverse side



by love alone

by love alone, reverse side



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completed this week...

love & yes

love & yes, rectoverso



Portrait of Bob with hexagons
I saw the film I'm Not There for the first time recently (highly recommend it if you love Bob!) and it inspired this portrait.

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together
edge is 1/16 inch thick and reads "Together we can do what we never can do alone."

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all 5 x 7" on davy board

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Selbstbildnis (self-portrait)

my obsessive new self-portraits.. Both are double-sided, 5 x 7" on davy board.




Tribute to the artist and yogi in me..

...featuring Hannah Hoch, Rene Magritte, ee cummings, and Frida Kahlo.

currently working on...

These are all 4 x 6" or 5 x 7" double-sided collages on foamboard, with the exception of "Always and Everywhere," which is on Davy board.



Syzygy:

Syzygy, rectoverso:


Everything:

Everything, rectoverso:


Audacity:

Audacity, rectoverso:


The Great Nebula:

The Great Nebula, rectoverso:


Always and Everywhere:


Always and Everywhere, rectoverso:


Primeval World:

Primeval World, rectoverso:

It's happening...

study series of double-sided, postcard-sized collages.

Omnidirectional Thoughts 21-30:

21 words of wisdom from Le Petit Prince
22 not for sale
23 Yoko Ono's vision
24 taking the first step
25 drops of water
26 Tao Te Ching, verse 33
27 the Milky Way
28 our Universe
29 an oblique strategy
30 Leben und genießen

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Listen! the universal Iris

LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Legends of our Universe

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is our deliciously mad genius. He gave us the Theory of Relativity, E = MC2 and enough food for thought to last forever--since, as this legend helped us understand, time does not even exist.

Learn: major accomplishments, Theory of Relativity, explanations

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Abraham Lincoln

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

-the Gettysburg Address, delivered on November 19, 1863

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He successfully led the country through the American Civil War and abolished slavery with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950, and for over 45 years happily ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Upon acceptance, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" Her answer was simple:

"Go home and love your family."

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Buddha

“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.”

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Jesus Christ

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." -John 13:34-35

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Sharbat Gula

Who is Sharbat Gula?
Famously known as the "Afghan Girl", Sharbat Gula's portrait was taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry in 1984. Gula was then 11 years old, living in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Today Gula lives in a small village in Afghanistan with her husband and three children. Read her story here.

Why does she inspire us?
Have you ever seen eyes like that? They are 'haunted and haunting.' They disturb us, they move us, they fill us with wonder. If eyes are windows to the soul, then hers is one full of fierce, heartbreaking beauty.



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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ E.T.

our lovable representative from outer space



3612 Roosevelt Rd, Kenosha, WI 53142

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Mona Lisa

just look and listen.





p.s. here's a link to the real thing...


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