Sunday, February 27, 2022

Bee symbolism.








Bees are the connectors between the spiritual and material realms. ... The fertilization of flowers requires the work of pollinators, which is the role that many types of bees fill. Because of this, in many contexts, bees can spiritually represent fertility, birth, growth, new beginnings, and new life.

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Saturday, February 26, 2022

The 1619 Project

             
                https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
                              

                                           
    The 1619 Project 
“For a nation steeped in this self-image, it is embarrassing, guilt-producing, and disillusioning to consider the role that race and slavery played in shaping the national narrative.”38 To address these discomfiting facts, we have created a founding mythology that teaches us to think of the “free” and “abolitionist” North as the heart of the American Revolution. Schoolchildren learn that the Boston Tea Party sparked the Revolution and that Philadelphia was home to the Continental Congress, the place where intrepid men penned the Declaration and Constitution. But while our nation’s founding documents were written in Philadelphia, they were mainly written by Virginians.” ― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Flamingo represents


Flamingos represent and symbolize balance, grace and beauty and the pink flamingos are considered as a symbol of femininity and innocence and teach us to have confidence. Did you know the flamingo is the national animal of the Bahamas? Flamingos are also monogamous by nature.






                                                        My Pink Angel's
                                                Long reed leg's sun dance;
                                                Lexotic pink angel's stance,
                                                sweet pink flamingo.
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Meditate.



                                          Benedictine apartment patio. Digital Photograph.


Untapped psychic abilities.

Hallways often represent spiritual growth and learning. They can also mean the dreamer has untapped psychic abilities.

A dream of walking through a long hallway or corridor can also represents your frustration in trying to escape a repetitive situation.




                  Growth and Learning - The Benedictine. Digital photograph. I Phone.
                               

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Geometric/Organic tile.

Acrylic tile. 4" X 4" canvas boards and Posca Pens

What is geometric and organic design?
ORGANIC: shapes, often curvilinear in appearance, that are similar to those found in nature, such as plants, animals, and rocks. GEOMETRIC: any shapes and based on math principles, such as a square, circle, and triangle.























        POSCA 8-Color Paint Marker Set, PC-5M Medium

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Todays thoughts

The Benedictine. Digital image 2020

                                         
                                     Hidden gems within the human mine.

“Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.” ― Bahá'u'lláh


Symmetrical proportions the cycle life.


The drawing and painting of people and animals, an activity of artists since primitive times, is clearly associated with symmetry, and geometry, since the human form and the forms of living creatures in general are obviously highly symmetrical in shape. Indeed the beauty of the human form, and also of an animal such as the horse, is firmly based on their symmetrical proportions.  Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht DĂĽrer were deeply concerned with the proportions of the human form from a truly geometrical point of view.



Subjective impulses and perceptions


What is the process in the production of the artist’s work of art? James Engel describes the process as the unifying action of man’s self-conscious and free intelligence:


Part of this philosophy, philosophy of art, tries to bind together the 

philosophies of nature and of the mind by seeing in works of art, in their

highest and best sense, a unity of man’s self-conscious and free intelligence

with nature’s material and objective reality. Through creative imagination the 

mind affirms its own existence by joining its subjective impulses and

perceptions with the particulars of nature. The resulting work of art, or

kunstprodukt, is itself real and objective, a token and a promise to man, it 

symbolizes the union of the mind’s free willful consciousness with the

independence and given nature of the cosmos (Engell, 301-302)."







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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Solace of inspiration

The Benedictine. Digital photography 


Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Lorraine Anderson (1952 - ) - Quoted in The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women,  Gail McMeekin, Conari Press, 2000, p27.


                 


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Swirled around me like snowflakes. Ink drawing. 11" X 14".

 


“Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.” 

― Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind


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Mankind and nature connection



Mankind searches obsessively for pleasure, materialistic goals and abundance. To obtain this we and our ancestors have exploited nature without any moral control to such an extent that nature has been rendered almost powerless in the process of sustaining a healthy life.


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Axis Mundi



Axis mundi symbolism may be seen in much of the romance surrounding space travel. A rocket on the pad takes on all the symbolism of a tower and the astronaut enacts a mythic story. Each embarks on a perilous journey into the heavens and, if successful, returns with a boon for dissemination.


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