Just an Abstract! Any suggestions for a title?
If you are interested in methods, you can find the photo from which this one arose, something rather surprising, by looking for it in Art Methods
Abstract
Month: June 2021
Passing
This was made from a photo of reflections on a wall. They did indeed pass, as soon as the sun moved on! When I first saw them, I thought of a group of cloaked figures walking past.
“Passing”: passing through Now, passing beyond the past, passing over the past, “passing on” … , passing over, passing for . . . So much depends on prepositions!
Soundings
“To take soundings” means, amongst other things, to drop a line down into the depths, to find out what is down there, below the surface, measuring how deep down the line will go.
In these Covid times, where very little is “normal”, we have been forced, willy nilly, to take stock of our situations and face ourselves to a degree which many of us may have rarely had to do before. In this pandemic, with mega-uncertainty about most things, with outcomes depending on many factors beyond our control and constantly having to make choices whether to do this or that without sufficient information, we are called on to look very deeply into ourselves, to “take soundings” to find out what is really important to us and each in our own way, to find in these depths the resources to cope with it all. All this as horrors play out on the world stage.
And then there are the lesser problems! We are learning that there is more than one way to do many things: work, shop, meet, eat, travel, etc.
This is one of my “Concrete Abstracts” . If interested in the method, go to the page on Art Methods and zoom down to this pic
Untold Story Tree
“The Tree” in this series, represents the individual person or our society in general.
We all have our stories, the ones we tell ourselves about who we are and the ones we tell other people about who we are! And they are not always quite the same!
The untold story is the one you don’t tell the world but carry around inside yourself, sometimes a painful story . Or perhaps it’s the third story to someones else’s two-sided story, or may be the imagined story you hold onto about someone else.
Maybe it’s “the real story”. Maybe it is not! It’s a good idea to take out old stories sometimes and give them a shake! (True of nations as well as people!!)
Next Text
Next text: what does that mean? Perhaps it could mean that the petals of a flower (ie Nature), superimposed over twisted lines of text, give a new and urgently needed view of “next”; perhaps it could mean that there is some text, of whatever kind, that is especially meaningful and deserves to be decorated with a flower? Or perhaps the background is not text at all! Whatever it suggests to you, that is what it “means”!
The Tree Sets Sail
“The Tree” in this series, represents the individual person or our society in general.
The Tree sets sail; how absurd is that! Well, perhaps you remember that in this series, The Tree is a symbol for the individual and /or for our society, even our “world”. This is the world of myth, after all, so a tree can sail! Here, the Tree is not adrift; its own branches and leaves are its sails. It has left its safe harbour and is setting out on a voyage into unknown waters.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing with new eyes. – MARCEL PROUST
Every day is not just another assignment. It is a small but contained voyage of discovery- DAVID DOUBILET
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. We must take the current when it serves, or lose the venture – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE