The Land of Nod by Julie Marks
This is another illustration of the people from the land of Nod. They belong to a sect, People of The Labyrinth. The Labyrinth is not a simple maze; the pathways and openings in the walls of the maze change from time to time, and are riddled with logic-puzzles and tests to explore this mysterious mountain region. It appears that they are looking outward. What do you think they are viewing? What images do you see in this bark abstract? I see many images, but your projections are unique and creative and I appreciate your perceptions of the myriad of images in this painterly photograph. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) wrote poetry for children in a lovely book, A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. This poem is titled The Land of Nod.
From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.
All by myself I have to go,
With no one to tell me what to do—
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.
Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.
Tags
labyrinth, land, louis, mountain, nod, pathway, poetry, robert, stevenson
Comments
a hooded woman peeking out from behind a tree……………….b
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I see a hooded figure on the far right with a gold cone hat and white robes sitting on a large black dog. I appreciate your visual acuity. You see the big picture as well as the nuance. The more you look, the more images you would see given your very creative imagination.
Right down the center I see a face with a profile facing left. Close up
i see a lot of excited canines, all leaping for attention to some higher being (Further up the tree maybe!)
Wendy, that is a great response. The excited canines are probably leaping for attention to a higher being. I paired my photos with the sci/fi book City where dogs take over the earth and are the superior beings. That is why God spelled backwards refers to a supreme being. In this case when spelled forwards the supreme being you refer to is the leader of the pack, Godly in his or her supreme power. :) :)
A fabulous find Julie, I definitely see profiles here, great shot!!!!
nice abstract
there are so many images within this one image…excellent
Profiles….
standing in mystic silence..
close to the Pascua´s statues…..
Ready for the inmpermanency.. for changing with the least wind strike or a sudden change of moisture or temperature. Someone who is showing in profile…is keeping the soul inside… the senses are not directed to you… and need dettachment..so.. it happens that they that force us to not to look them straight…and curiously…we feel that they are “misterious”.
Rosa (have you read “The Essential Alan Watts”?….the Spanish translation for the title is “El Guru Tramposo…or the cheating guru”…..there you may find what I am meaning about….“being misterious on purpose”…just for chuckling about)