Blossom Breeze

Downtown Light Orbs

2012-01-15T01:42:00.002+02:00

As the protests rage in this location tonight (Km 0 downtown), I thought to post a photo I took a few years ago in the same spot, of the holiday decoration: sure looks like a bunch of Orbs - freedom of consciousness...
I have mixed feelings about the protests. On one hand I am glad my people will not allow the lies about "crises" to go any further, that they are demanding their rights because I fully believe everyone is entitled to a decent living, "dignity" as they say, and I also know that in reality there is plenty to go around. But at the same time, I am worried that the point is lost in all this, because whenever people got a better living, they never remembered to expand their awareness to include those which they abuse all the time, animals, children... There is always the excuse that it's because of poverty, but money never made anyone listen to their children better. The good thing about this manufactured crisis is that it got everyone to rethink what's really important. I can definitely see a link between decent living conditions, and general outlook (generosity), and I know that once we sort out the meeting of everyone's basic needs, the rest can take off the way some of us dream. Right now, whenever I ask someone why they don't learn more about life, the answer is always because they're too busy with meeting basic survival needs. And I know it is true, because as I find myself hauling grocery bags every week, paying more and more each time for the same food - the weight and reality of gravity are very obvious. But it can become an excuse for anything, especially for avoiding the more serious questions or the more painful emotions. "I'm busy! It's not me, it's life's fault".
I don't think it's life's fault that people don't see the faces of those they trample over. When people imagine their next business venture, they don't consider things in a holistic way, just in a way that will be good for them and their immediate family. Or they are very confused: Why, they ask, if I have worked my butt off all my life, in this state, does the state not pay me back now?
But say, if that family dreams of something more, something like a genuine relationship with nature and animals, where we don't just consume, consume, consume... where people understand more about spirituality and karma, that we all create our reality, not the government... how can we realize those dreams?
As for working all one's life: if you slave away for the Devil imagining that you will one day be happy, why expect fair remuneration? Where can you get that from, if the things you did never helped anybody and just maintained the lies and negativity you were brought up with?
I am told this is too much to think about, that I am going too far - but I think it's merely the basic need which we have to meet. The beginning itself, not a far-off goal.
Right now, there is a cry for genuine democracy. But if this power of the people is layered over negative feelings of disempowerment and the fear for tomorrow, what can we achieve but more of the same? Money has not given me friends to talk to about my dreams, my fears or my artistic and philosophical visions, and I must say, I crave for these basic needs to be met just as I need to eat, drink and be merry.

Sheba (1999-2012)

2012-01-06T21:13:00.000+02:00

R.I.P... You'll be very missed.

"Jeopardy"

2011-12-10T12:34:00.009+02:00

Title "Jeopardy"
Concept Also known as Risk And Win in some countries, the tv game show involves contestants figuring out the question to the answer provided. In this case, "It is Heaven, the Devil within, and you need to allow it to happen to yourself".
Quoted material:
* Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (The Game album, 1980).
* Florence and the Machine - Shake It Out (Ceremonials album, 2011).
Technique Vidding (from the short word for video, "vid") can considered a new form of art, specific to the Information Era, and draws heavily from Postmodernism and Pop Art.
Notes: The issue of copyright remains controversial. I declare that I don't make any commercial profit from such artworks. Likewise, I am not the author of the material I used; I do own legal copies of the material. Support the artists you like!

Going Within / Opening Inner Vision

2011-09-03T21:48:00.005+03:00

I had just finished a dreaming session, and was preparing to wake up. But on that threshold, something got my attention, and it was presented as the images above. The first step was called "Going within", while the second was "Opening inner vision".

Christmas 1991

2011-07-31T23:17:00.009+03:00

Concept Make your own Christmas Tree picture (2nd grade Drawing class). The bride wearing red and purple travelling inside a transparent glass box was my ideal (imaginary) Christmas present, and the book titles are "Fairytales" and "Prose".

Technique Watercolour & Tempera.

"Driftwood"

2010-12-02T22:12:00.015+02:00

Concept In Norse mythology, Adam and Eve were created (and received their names) from two pieces of driftwood: Ash and Elm (Ask and Embla).
Technique Film photos taken in New Zealand (Aotearoa), 2003-2004.
Click on any picture to view slideshow.

"Songs of Mer"

2010-11-14T11:44:00.038+02:00

Concept The shores of the Ocean present textures which remind us of the waves that shaped them. Could we read these textures as grooves on a disc, playing back the Songs of Mer?
Technique Photos taken on New Zealand (Aotearoa) beaches, 2003-2006.
Click on any picture to view in gallery mode.

Ma'at

2010-03-20T23:20:00.026+02:00

Concept Ma'at is the Egyptian concept of Balance, or Justice, and plays an important part in the "Weighing of the Heart" ceremony. The feather represents the standard used to measure how light- or heavy-hearted a person is. Even the Gods and Goddesses must be grounded in Ma'at. The ancient meaning of this ceremony was lost to literalization. It used to mean weighing a person's conceptions combined with their deeds, and the result propelled them upward or downward in their quality of experience. This does not solely happen upon death, but is a constant process.

Technique I made this traditional Egyptian mural at a smaller scale, using most of the same ingredients that Egyptians would have used, and the grid-enlarging technique. Reference books and basic training were provided by The New Acropolis.