The small printer is also fun for printing sentimental pictures like this one, which as an "ahtiste" I would be ashamed of publishing on the web... :)
I guess I tend to shy from the scorn from those who can't tell the difference between art involving pretty scenes, and hack work involving pretty scenes. And to be sure, the difference can be subtle.
If an artiste should be ashamed of posting that, I would be ashamed to be an artiste.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.
Maybe I should post a few others from that trip.
ReplyDeleteThen maybe I am coarse and unrefined artistically. Because this photo is one of my favorites of yours. Perhaps it is laziness in me that loves to rest my eyes on this kind of magical beauty?
ReplyDeleteDon't know....
And no. I do not like Thomas Kinkaide's paintings . . . . . :)
Laurie
I just showed my boyfriend, an artist, this photo. He agrees with you Eolake. He said, "Centering an object like that in a work of art is the kiss of death. It's boring."
ReplyDeletehmph.
What would be REALLY cool is if a woodland nymph, a woodland spirit, began appearing in the negative where that light is, without Eolake having planned it. In fact I do see one half appearing. I know I'm strange, but i've always been able to see things behind appearances. I'm hopeless at technicalities, but other realites seem to come through. For me art is a doorway to other worlds.
Then again. I have days when A tree is just a tree.
Laurie
The photos are inviting during the daylight hours, it's at night that the woods bother me. I do like the photos.
ReplyDeleteLaurie,
ReplyDeleteYou boyfriend doesn't agree with me. I like the picture.
I merely hesitate to post pictures like it because of people like him who won't get it. :)
And though centered objects *tend* to be boring, there are no set rules. Also, this tree is actually not quite centered.
I know I'm strange, but i've always been able to see things behind appearances.
ReplyDeleteHave you always had these symptoms of illusionary visions per say?
Perhaps some solid therapy may help? Or are you just pretending to create objects knowingly?
If I understand you?
Have a nice day.
Many of the most valuable people to society are those who are able to "see things behind appearances".
ReplyDeleteEven in something as seemingly rational as computer hardware, this is true. For instance a genius like Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, could do things with hardware that he could not explain and which made no sense to others, but which made the machines vastly more efficient than others managed.
To be more accurate, my boyfriend did not say this particular picture was boring, but that art that focuses on a centered object is boring.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I agree with that actually, there are many theories of art.
in the same way that a person of a simple mind but pure heart can be a conduit of a greater spirit coming through, so can art of the same order I'm guessing. Not knocking high technical skill. The greatest ballet dancers I'm thinking of, have that skill, and at the last moment something else comes through quite magical.
just rambling .
just rambling .
ReplyDeleteit's ok honey to ramble, we all do sometimes. luv to ya'll,
Dr. G.T. Higgins said...
ReplyDelete"Have you always had these symptoms of illusionary visions per say?
Perhaps some solid therapy may help?"
"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down", eh? There are always some boring people too eager to help anybody they find too different without those concerned ever asking for it.
This is the kind of attitude that drove genius, patriot and WW2 hero Alan Turing to suicide (by arsenic, very painful). "Help" was forced upon him because he was homosexual...
Keep having nice days the way YOU find them nice, Laurie!
Besides, dear "colleague" G.T. Higgins, any latin-knowing medic knows it's "per se", meaning "by itself".
signalroom's boyfriend said...
"Centering an object like that in a work of art is the kiss of death. It's boring."
So what? DOMAI is not about artistic nudes either. It's about enjoying beauty, period. I fully agree with Michael Burton.
:-)
I love this one! :) I like it better than the others that you posted later, the light is amazing... it makes me think anything could happen, there.
ReplyDeleteAnother one to be blow up, when I get around to it. I've got to start saving some of these. :)
See the great thing about the size I can post now is that you can actually get a very nice A4 (8x12 inch) print from them.
ReplyDeleteAll free from me! :)
"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down", eh? There are always some boring people too eager to help anybody they find too different without those concerned ever asking for it.
ReplyDeleteJust like yourself Pascal. There have been many complaints about you but for the most part I enjoy reading Eolakes posts not yours.
This keeps me having pleasant days :)
[Yawn!] Another anonymous put-down that never heard about rubber and glue. Why bother?
ReplyDeleteBetter share with those interested -and I know they are many- this very interesting item I just found in a recent psychology monthly:
The cultural creative personnality:
About 17% of people in the West.
In rupture with the family-inherited values; often has a job he chose, that fits him better than the one he undertook studies for. Puts at work values deemed as "feminine" (sensitivity, intuition, empathy, non-competitiveness...) in personal and professional life. Weaves bonds with people around him, prefers cooperation to confrontation, and has a strong sense of solidarity. Defends multi-cultural values, and has a different vision of education. May practice a certain "laic spirituality", is convinced that personal change can contribute to a positive transformation of the world. Gives great importance to notions of authenticity and coherence between deep beliefs and own behavior.
I'm betting this one will get much echo. :-)
Besides, dear "colleague" G.T. Higgins, any latin-knowing medic knows it's "per se", meaning "by itself".
ReplyDeleteThis was intential colleague, per say means also in America, that which i have spoken. i forgive your misunderstand here.
Pascal said...
ReplyDelete[Yawn!] Another anonymous put-down that never heard about rubber and glue. Why bother?
I'm just being honest (stretches out and yawns as the water fills his tired eyes) I just mentioned that eolakes comments are brief and concise.
Like yours for instance, I feel you speak just to speak sir. It wasn't mean't as an attack or anything. I'm not that way.
I read what the Lucid person writes but he writes such long paragraphs seemingly unending yet he doesn't say much? That's my observation. (No putdown to the young man.)
I think clarification should be concise if possible.
Lucid Twilight said...
ReplyDelete"If you think I don't say much you aren't paying attention."
Huh? Did jou just say something? ;-)
Don't bother, LT. Let those who care listen, they are many.