Tsunami of Conciousness
This work really makes me miss working with clay…
Ceramic art by Debra Fleury
“While growing up near the ocean, I spent many hours peering at tiny creatures and looking for clues to their secret lives. This began a lifelong passion for the the minute details, the battered fragments, and the myriad patterns of organic life… Clay is critical to exploring these ideas. Touching clay and responding to its organic properties are key aspects of my largely exploratory and intuitive creative process. Risk taking and pushing materials to their limits is also important. I experiment with the forces used to shape clay, glaze, and glass as a process for imagining and exploring the effects of natural forces. I combine clays with glass or other materials to see what they reveal about their individual properties when they are fused together.”
Love this work!…
These mesmerizing sculptures are the work of William Ricketts, a rare Australian born in 1898 who was in awe of the connection the Aborigine people have with the land. Hidden deep within a lush Australian rainforest are a set of mystical Aborigine sculptures seemingly merged into the natural surroundings. Moss covered torsos of men, women and children protrude from tree trunks and boulders. Some reach heavenward with widespread wings, others envelop each other protectively – all are symbols of the relationship the indigenous Australian Aborigines have with nature.
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i love the contrast in color here.
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The trick is to mobilise.
This amazing candid 1956 shot of King and his wife was captured by Associated Press shutterbug Gene Herrick, who was also in Montgomery to document Rosa Parks’ arrest one month earlier. “I took pictures of both events, two of which have been highly publicized,” he has said. “The picture of Reverend King shows him being kissed on the cheek by his wife as they come down the courthouse steps after his release after his hearing, and the one of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted.”
Here is another photo I took at NASA. It makes me chuckle every time.
I love the mystery the fog envokes.
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I shot this image while visiting the NASA visitor’s center in Cape Canaveral. The light situation was a bit tricky but the end result was a warm glow, slight shimmer and natural vignette that would be difficult to recreate using natural light. I enjoy the way the sharp focus on the glove in front draws attention to the unique texture of the material. Everything works together to give the image an otherworldly quality, appropriate for the subject matter.
