Reflecting on Shadow
This poem and photo selection was created as homework
for a Ruhi Book 4 group I am presently in. There were many more images used as a slide show and the words were read out loud. The images below are only a selection of the original presentaion.
The homework we were set was to take pictures from our surrounding environment and community that we saw, personally, reflected signs of old orders breaking down
and new order growing up out of that decay.
As I had been stuck for many years, not able to remove a creative block around this very subject, this homework was very challenging for me. I have been a visual artist all my life and found the decay so confronting I chose not to reflect it at all. If I could not reflect beauty I was not going to have a voice.
for a Ruhi Book 4 group I am presently in. There were many more images used as a slide show and the words were read out loud. The images below are only a selection of the original presentaion.
The homework we were set was to take pictures from our surrounding environment and community that we saw, personally, reflected signs of old orders breaking down
and new order growing up out of that decay.
As I had been stuck for many years, not able to remove a creative block around this very subject, this homework was very challenging for me. I have been a visual artist all my life and found the decay so confronting I chose not to reflect it at all. If I could not reflect beauty I was not going to have a voice.
This of cause ment very little art coming out. After I pushed through this block after consulting with a fellow group member I found myself free and for the first time in many many years able to reflect the beauty and not get side tracked by the decay.
Reflecting on Shadow was born, I now have found my voice
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Reflecting on Shadow was born, I now have found my voice
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Dancing sky with clouds
Reflection and shadow uniting
Rippling...dancing
Shadows meeting reality
Shadows of forests dead
Bones still serving
Rippling...dancing
Shadows meeting reality
Shadows of forests dead
Bones still serving
Reflecting a times endWith always a promise
Reflecting the cycle
Reflecting on ShadowDancing sky with clouds
Reflection and shadow uniting
Rippling...dancing
Shadows meeting reality
Shadows of forests deadBones still serving
Reflected truthVeiled reality
Path appears through shadow
Path appears through shadow
Negative and positive unitingWhat is shadow?
Waves of materialism shadowed by orchards of abundant fruit
Waves of materialism shadowed by orchards of abundant fruitLight of reality still struggles through
Shadows of beauty off cold metal walls
Shadows of beauty off cold metal wallsLight and shadow rippling
Patterns dancing
Reality slowly forming
Light struggles through
Patterns dancing
Reality slowly forming
Light struggles throughOrchards of abundant fruit a growing reality
Twin manifestations
Twin manifestations
Shadows and reflections become clear
Shadows of beauty off cold brick walls
Two wings
Shadows of beauty off cold brick walls
Two wings
Light unites with shadow to create formCage of imprisonment
Break all binding threads to free the true self
The Ancient Beauty's signs
The Ancient Beauty's signs
posted by creative reflections at 8:15 AM
2 Comments:
beautifully done.
i have spent much time "reflecting" on shadow, your words and images give me even more to think about... quite wonderful.
beautiful post and shadow images. i like capturing interesting shadow images too. shibori is akin to shadows in that it leaves a memory on the cloth the way a shadow leaves an image/memory of an object. light, darkness, memories....very inspiring!
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