Saturday, October 30, 2010

Pulling on Pictures

I really like to take photos and pump up there color levels and then smear them up. You can do this with the computer. The computer is not about order and structure. It is about being able to make a mess of a photograph  and make it totally different evry time you do it. It's a picture wreckers paradise.
This first one was a very pretty flower.  The next one was a bunch of leaves in the grass, but I fixed that.


Below I mixed another flower picture with a  old photo of a woman. I then allowed my mind to look deep into the photo and write the first thing that came into my mind.


I just wrote words, I didn't use punctuation. Read it how ever you want. Not sure what it means, but I like where it's going.


I am Looking at you



Sometimes I am looking at you
but I feel like I am walking
through you
not past you
but within you
never reaching the other side
for your soul is so vast
it would take
more than a thousand life times
to cross it
I am looking at you
and I want to be there on that journey
within you
I do not know you
but my life is about wondering
through your soul
I gather pieces of stone and wood
I call them feelings
I carry them with me
and I talk to you
I saw you on the train
in 1981
we did not speak
but I was drawn into your soul then
I named you Madeline
others call you God
I am looking at you
through every stone and stick I gather
we will talk one day
when I reach the other side of your soul.
I'm good here for now.

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Jeff looking

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Spiders Again? notion #11


When I reach the edge
I can do two things.
Turn around and go back the way I came
or leap up and let the wind carry me,
to some place else.

Turning around
is the chance to see what I've seen
from a different perspective.

The leaping is a faith issue
that sets me down
into a whole new situation.

Do I trust the wind?
The hand that carries me into the unknown?

I am making my way back down
the way I came.
a few more trips
and I may choose to ride the wind
I am working on the faith thing.
really I am.

Jeff or Spider

I think this is a Long Bodied Cellar spider in case you were wondering, not sure though. Here is a link to a spider identification chart http://www.insectidentification.org/spiders.asp

Monday, October 11, 2010

Face





In one of my latest posts I cut up a painting and fragmented it. Here I've taken a few photos and cropped the picture not giving you the full shot. I like the feeling this creates.  Faces say so much on there own. I think they are the first thing we learn to read as infants. Below are just some thoughts that come while looking at these images and others I haven't shown you. You can't see everything I see!


I can see you
but never know you completely
I take from you only what I need
a fraction here and there
The memory of your eyes,
the twisting of your mouth
ideas from your words,
inspiration from your actions
to see you completely
is only possible for the creator
besides, If I were to see you completely
it would be too difficult
to go on being myself.
You are a powerful force.
I see it in your face.

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Jeff partly

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

notion #10


I imagine myself quite the being
but can I draw out of my body
Materials
to build a structure
that will not only support me physically
but will also provide me with sustenance?

no

I kneel before thee
sister, brother.
You are the teacher,
my guide.

I will watch the ways of the morning meadow,
marvel at the dew suspended
and know
that I am but a single drop
waiting to fall.
Waiting for my moment
to give myself
to the earth
for its good.

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These photos and thought were captured on an early morning walk at the Kirkwood Preserve in Willistown township, PA. Here is a link all about this place and how to find it if you are local.

Jeff walking around thinking