Wednesday, October 29, 2008
"Morning Doodle"
Friday, October 31, 2008
"First Part of Process: Perception"
6:38am
9:47pm
Larger underneath
(Micron pen and colored pencil on 11x14 inch bristol board)
After delineating the physical, I moved from the mirror to try to express the spiritual and conceptual. I colored the red eye first, to represent that in me which is of Set, and then the blue eye, to represent that in me which is of Horus. Then the two sides kept fairly to the warm=Set, cool=Horus tones. I wrote various things to show the mental process:
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I am... I could be... I am evolving...
Grasping the fire,
I am becoming...
Old doubts |
As I colored the hair strands, I wanted to give a feeling of the consciousness and 'third eye' at the forehead. The hairstrands evolved into "SIA", the Egyptian word for perception and consciousness, to further illustrate this.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
"Quick Sketch of Oscar Wilde"
9:33pm
Still, there's been magic and delight. We got up early for a pleasant walk in Gateway park. We took the path which went by the Quartermaster Depot area, and beyond that, I think they're building new museum areas. They're building something. Several workers in bright hued vests were planting flowers and foliage, and a tan shirted lady shooed us away. "Next week," she says, "it opens."
After we got back home, I got back to trying to get all my museum photos up, at least the large size versions. I fear I can no longer make back ups, or copy anything to disc. I tried FIVE TIMES to copy some Yves Montand and Edith Piaf songs to disc, and after trying to write one song, the disc is spat out, failed. The danged planned obsolescence of things! I'll try to clean it with a can of air, to see if that helps. Would it help if I got one of those data storage devices, or is this further effect of the corrupted jit compiler?
Yes, it makes me grumpy.
(Yes, I 'know', I'm ALLOWING it to make me grumpy!) Sigh! Anyway, we saw a marvelous movie about Edith Piaf a while back, which caused me to seek out her music. We also saw one of Lord Nelson, _I Remember Nelson_. This is the guy Laura is related to. I've done a search of Laura's web pages, to find where she mentions it. I didn't turn anything up. But both Julia and I remember Laura telling his tale, usually after she'd imbibed a bit of brandy or black russian. While watching the movie, both Julia and I could see much of him in Laura. One comment about Nelson, "You can't make him do anything he doesn't want to do!" Lord, I tried! It was useless. Also, at one point Nelson confesses to being 'strong on the outside, but not so strong on the inside'. Julia and I were among the few to know that of Laura.
There were weird similaries, too. A scar over Nelson's right eye matched a scar Laura had (his through war, hers through a motorcycle accident). Also, Nelson was 'unconventional' in his love, and Laura was certainly that. I am rather like his Emma. Also, the things he said of Emma reminded me of what Laura said of me, the exuberant love for life.
Somehow, I feel as though I understand Laura better after seeing her distant relative. Tonight, we saw another movie about a famous person, ,_Wilde_ which stars Stephen Fry, "an acknowledged Wilde scholar". It was real. Fry freely portrays Wilde as passionate and sensuous in all his loves. Although Wilde's life ended sadly, no doubt his struggles have helped bring about greater understanding today.
After that, I checked out the Wiki article on Wilde, where I saw an intriguing photo of a man with 'soulful' eyes. I gave it a quick sketch:
