I've just never been completely happy with my 'Set on the Run' picture. He just doesn't look FAST enough. So I tried again:

"Speedy Set"

I will try again someday with a completely different picture. Someday I will get one that fully pleases me.

9:00pm

A few hours later, I've decided I do like this version!

 

Sunday, April 16, 2006 - C

"A Little Seasonal"

The little chick declares, "Don't need THIS anymore!"

 

Monday, April 17, 2006

"Things Are Strange at the Sudberry House"

Just a bit strange...

 

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

"Going to Make it Work"

Can we really do that, fix relationships by turning things like a dial? Still, humans try. Is it 'fine tuning' the communications?

11:35pm

I just realized you may be wondering what inspired the last two drawings. From Lorianne of Hoarded Ordinaries, I learned of James Surl, a fascinating artist. I was looking at his drawings, and didn't view very many, got to one called "Clean Back Time", and then I got inspired to take up a pen for today's effort.

Actually last night's work got inspired by his sculpture, even though the colored drawing and his sculpture are vastly different. It's that quality of things being 'alive', a sort of animism that got into the earlier drawing: 'leaping' leaves, conscious candle holders, big eyed vase, and what not...

Surls' work has a delightful quality like that of Calder or Cocteau. One thing that amazes me about his work is that he does it on such a large scale. Some drawings are five feet across in size. I can't imagine thinking that large.

I wonder if this is a female thing. I remember the tiny artwork of Hilla Rebay at the Guggenheim, (on REALLY cheap wrinkly paper, no less...). Females think small and males think large? Then I will next see a male minaturist who does amazingly tiny things and that will blow that theory.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006 A

"Pondering a Book Quote"
5:55am

The house has got a chill...
bed so warm, Julia so warm,
but the thoughts are churning and want 'out'...

This morning I am pondering a book quote. I haven't read the particular book the blog-writer quotes from, although one day I may add it to the high pile of books I possess, and hope to read someday. Anyway, Alain de Benoist via Ensio Kataja has got me thinking:

"When it comes to specifying the values particular to paganism, people have generally listed features such as these: an eminently aristocratic conception of the human individual; an ethics founded on honor (”shame” rather than ”sin”); an heroic attitude toward life’s challenges; the exaltation and sacralization of the world, beauty, the body, strength, health; the rejection of any ”worlds beyond”; the inseparability of morality and aesthetics; and so on. From this perspective, the highest value is undoubtedly not a form of ”justice” whose purpose is essentially interpreted as flattening the social order in the name of equality, but everything that can allow a man to surpass himself. (False Contrasts, p. 21)" - Alain de Benoist

Regarding rejection of any 'worlds beyond', I think he means not that one is denying the possibility of life after death, but that one places supreme importance on the 'here and now'. This is in constrast to the (Christian) Osirians singing, "Some glad day when this life is over, I'll fly away, I'll fly away, oh glory, I'll fly away..."

Thinking of our Essence as the ba-bird, even during the transition, it is still 'this moment, this now'. Bringing the sacred to the 'here and now' shortens the distance between us and it. 'Everything that can allow a man to surpass himself' sounds like what encourages Xeper, as we reach out and extend old boundaries of ourselves, old limitations in that ever spiraling upwards process of growth.

 

Wednesday, April 19, 2006 B

"The Conversation"

Two friends meet, exchanging their latest news...