Featured Work
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The Spirit of Solitude by Sharon Mau
“The weight of the world is love. / Under the burden of solitude, / under the burden of dissatisfaction / the weight, / the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? / In dreams it touches the body, / in thought constructs a miracle, / in imagination anguishes till born in human / looks out of the heart burning with purity / for the burden of life is love, / but we carry the weight wearily, / and so must rest in the arms of love at last, / must rest in the arms of love. / No rest without love, / no sleep without dreams of love / be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, / the final wish is love / cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: / the weight is too heavy / must give for no return as thought is given in solitude / in all the excellence of its excess. The warm bodies shine together in the darkness, / the hand moves to the center of the flesh, / the skin trembles in happiness and the soul comes joyful to the eye / yes, / yes, / that’s what I wanted, / I always wanted, / I always wanted, / to return to the body where I was born.” Poetry by Allen Ginsberg Sunset Pa’ako Beach / Makena Maui Hawai’i Fine Art Photography / Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved This is a composite of four images, one of a beautiful horse I photographed at the 2008 Makawao 4th of July parade on Baldwin Avenue, and three of a beautiful sunset on Pa’ako Beach 30 September 2009. I do hope you enjoy my digital art. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Tree Boy by Arla M. Ruggles
New Mexico’s Highway 3 to Villanuevo State Park is narrow, winding, and treacherous! The posted speed limit is 25 MPH most of the way, but local traffic tends to zoom along at about 40. This landmark wordlessly cautions care in approaching yet another blind curve. / / (2009.OCT.11) Featured in / Gateways / (2009.OCT.24) / New Mexico / (2009.OCT.13) Canon 350D EOS / Sigma 70/300mm
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Celestial temple by MoonSpiral
9×12 pastel on Colorfix paper This is an old drawing that I decided to upload for the Sacred Places challenge in the Ancient Practices group. The description said it could be a place we have only visited etherically so I thought this might qualify.
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Curled Sky by Enno Kosk
October in Estonia with curled clouds on the field… /
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Abracadabra by LilithLilith
Image, editing and layout by Lilith. An’ it harm none, do what ye will / (Wiccan rede) Book of shadows.
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Night Creature by Katia Honour
A Harpy finds a sweet spot to bask in. Even creatures accustomed to dwelling in the night can be reached by a shaft of light and simply enjoy the warmth and inspiration. Oil on Canvas, 45” x 35” (original for sale – $600) / Featured in Divine Feminine Group
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Red Mountain by retepk
There is this little world many, many light years from our present location. It is so remote that it hasn’t been named yet. As far as we know. I liked it so I thought I would share this one surviving image of it. Planetscape created in Artmatic Voyager. Moons created in Bryce 6. Assembled in Photoshop CS2.
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SOMBRE by KEIT
2009 featured in / Gateways on 10/09
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The Cupboard of Remarkable Dreams by Jing3011
An invitation to make-believe sold as a laminated print to a Redbubble artist
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Pálpito by Pedro Flores
Original painted acrylic on plywood. 120×150 cm. / /
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Desarrollo sostenible IX by Pedro Flores
Photo manipulation / /
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Who pulls the strings? by TaniaLosada
The lights turn on / the function starts. / In the puppet of the insane / Who pulls the strings? Extract from the song “Who pulls the strings?” by Doctor Deseo basque group I know… I’m obsessed with the concept of Time! lol Self+portrait of my boyfriend+texture layers / Canon 400D It’s a set of two / See also / Feature work in: / - Gateways group (October 09) / / - EMI – The Group (September 09) / / - Digital Photography group (September 09) / - Digital Artist United group (September 09) / / - The Grunge Art Gallery group (September 09) / - Textures Unlimited group (September 09) / / - Dimensions group (September 09) / / - Sets of Two group (September 09)
Recent Work
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SOULCRUSHER by ZOMBIE RUST
A kind of an exploitation type of artwork meant for a hypothetical Grindhouse film. Pencil, charcoal and ink / ZOMBIE This artwork has been redesigned for a hypothetical film poster artwork / and T-shirt / This design is especially created for the group /
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1973 by Lynne Haselden
One of my earliest photos. Taken with the families trusty old Kodak point and shoot. The subjects are my brother (about 13) and an old wind damaged Puriri tree.
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Welcome To Scary Mansion! by Andrea Ida Rausch
You have been out in the dark, it is cold, a bad moon rises and you feel so glad when you discover there is a shelter…a mansion, a castle, whatever! / But oops, whats up? / After falling over some skulls you must realise that the so called shelter is much more scary, than the dark night surrounding you….................. A 3D Rendering made in Vue, treated in PI with some filters and brushes
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Walking alone... by micmac
One of those early morning walking alone with my dog.Same morning as «Liberty» .At the summer camp “Bruchesi” near my house. / 18 NOV 09….13223 views / Saint-Hipplyte.Quebec.Canada
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Behold, the ecovillage by Lawrence Alfred Powell
For other works see the new art/literature ezine, Le Nouveau Monde Vert, at lnmveditors.50webs.com (LNMV is now accepting art/poetry submissions for the 2009 issue. Email to: lnmveditors@yahoo.co.uk)
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The chlorophyll dream by Lawrence Alfred Powell
For other works see the new art/literature ezine, Le Nouveau Monde Vert, at lnmveditors.50webs.com (LNMV is now accepting art/poetry submissions for the 2009 issue. Email to: lnmveditors@yahoo.co.uk)
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we are not alone by shadowlee
using photoshop and pi
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Der Traum des Schwans (Swan's Dream) by Andrea Ida Rausch
Checking my elder files I discovered this early piece and decided to share it with you! / It is based on two photos of swans, taken on the banks of river Main, an Apophysis fractal and the “Floodfilter”, with which I treated it in PI. The swan is dreaming in sepia, all swans do so…......:-)
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After The Rain by Sharon K. Shubert
Digital art in an abstract realism style. Inspired by the wolves and coyotes that live nearby.
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READAPTACJA by KEIT
2008 featured in / A Spiritual Walk on 06/09
About This Group
The aim of this group is to explore images/writing that act as a kind of meditation, a way into other areas and/or levels of consciousness.
So this can be in image form or written form. Hey why not even a t-shirt if you think it has the power. The main point is that you feel it has the potential for a meditation.
The kind of thing I imagine for this group is perhaps in the form of a mandala, a mythic scene evoking other worlds, some way for the imagingation to enter into another world and to travel there.
It is travel in a shamanic sense (though not necessarily involving drums and bells) as in soul-flight, to create a real inner experience. (If any try this with these works, either staring at the picture or holding it in their imaginations, and actually find themselves on a journey, feel free to write about it in the forum.)
Gateways is not specifically about being a spiritual group, though of course that is an aspect of it, inevitably. The work must be an opening and needs to imply something, someplace beyond the actual image presented, either within or out of sight. There needs to be a blank space for the imagination to enter into and create. Or a being that can take you on a journey.
There are no limits on the quantity of work that may be submitted (I find that so annoying).
Feel free to discuss any matters regarding RB or this group in the forum.
Come on in – the water’s fine!
P.S. see also:
Shameless Self-Promotion
Mature Men
Artistic Assignments
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