I’m here as an apprentice of sorts – I enjoy observing and learning from others. I’m a preschool teacher turned art student. ALL comments including critiques, suggestions and tips are welcome and appreciated.
I’m interested in how we (individually & collectively) relate to and impact one another, our communities, cultures, and environment, especially within the context of our digital and global world. Recently returned to university studies to pursue the above ideas, including photography, ethnography-ethnology, visual communication, interactive media, and design.
As a humble seeker of Truth, Beauty, Life, Peace and Love within the broken reality of humanity, I value God, people, ideas and their expressions created by and found in the process of living. Through photography I hope to explore, understand, and share this universal journey we call life.
“Every step of the journey is the journey.”
MC in KC
© 2008-2009 Marcella Chestnut. All rights reserved.
All images and written works are owned by the artist and may not be used without permission.
Marcella Chestnut is a member of Complex Simplicity of Art, Abstract Realism, Abstracts from Nature, African Art and Photography, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, ART ACTION UNION - CREATIVE ACTIVISM, Art Students and Beginners, Artrageous RB Artists - Self Portrait Gallery, Beginner's Expressions, Bits and Pieces , Candid Photography, Childhood, Core [C.O.R.E], Current Issues, Dilapidated Buildings, Everyday Life, Feminine Intent (LIMIT TWO IMAGES PER DAY), Forests, Friends of RedBubble, Globes, Spheres and Curves - 2 per day, High Key, Human and Nature, Humour Captured, Kairos, Kaleidoscope art on cards, Light and Reflection 1/24, Living Christianity, Media and Publicity, Moms 4 Art, Mysteries of the Common, Object Studies & Concepts, Photo-Zen, Ruins, Ancient and Derelict Buildings, Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits - 2 Per 24 Hours, Scenery, Self as Other, Self Portrait, Short stories - Spherical Scriptings, Simple by Design, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, Street Photography and Photojournalism, The Fabulous Prairies - 3/day, The FENCE group, The Grunge Art Gallery, The Human Condition, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, Underground USA, United States, War , Windows and Doors, WMG and Your Country's Best (2 images per day).
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I admire so many of you, some of whom have caused me to think, feel, see or live differently through your art… even if only for a moment. This is a sappy but heartfelt message to you.
Wishing it was all a dream, I unplugged myself from the wall and slowly pulled the pump and pole across the cold tile floor. The wheels prattled an uneven rhythm in rebellion.
I begin to read. My heart begins to pound and then I feel the familiar ache that will, inevitably, lead to the death of me one day; the ache of humanity.
fighting, rushing, pressing on / guilty and yet blameless / many miles yet to run / Grace forever ageless
remove me… until I am but a shadow of what will be