Adverse
52 creative works found
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Mixed medium painting of an abstract with desert earth tones.
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Abstract mixed medium painting; acrylic and watercolor on paper with inked Chinese character for “sky”. Original 8. 5×11”. Created after a particularly present and powerful yoga practice from which I promptly began to menstruate. At the moment it felt to me the most profound painting I had so far produced. I value the brief process of producing small paintings and collages. They are finely “Now”. It’s complete. I’m fulfilled. I move on. It felt incredible to create directly from my own dynamic moment; blood and opened cellular energy; the feeling that my attained balance and cleanly spinning connection was becoming unhinged by the heat and hunger of the incoming biological process. My first true landscape as a painter, an inner landscape composed of ancient alchemical symbols, which came without intention. It evolved just from the physical act of my hand moving the brush, the inner events, the intense energy generated.
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I’m fascinated by this tree which grows in Lafayette, Louisiana. I think it must have fallen after a storm and then started growing again because the base of its trunk is very misshappen and convoluted as though it had been twisted and torn at one time. I stumbled across this quotation by Winston Churchill and immediately thought about this lone live oak. I think the words of the statesman and this stately old tree go well together. It’s encouragement for those who consider themselves loners because, as Churchill pointed out, solitary trees, having overcome the adversities of loneliness, grow stronger as a result.
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“Standing Tall Against Adversity” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © The rock is one of The Twelve Apostles along the Great / Ocean Road in Victoria. Slowly the ocean is eroding / away at its base, but still it seems to stand tall and / proud, weathering its adversities….. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he / stands in moments of comfort and convenience, / but where he stands at times of challenge and / controversy.” / ~Martin Luther King Jr. /
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A child of a mining community in the Scotland of the 1960s.
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These two unfortunate gentlemen were here come rain come shine, relying on the kindness of passers-by.
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Walk with / Your head held / High. / You are strength, / Energy positive. / A guide / For frightened, / Light for cries, / That hear / Defeat. / Walk, with your / Heart, / For those / That / Cannot. / You are / Love, for / You inspire. / Keep. / Walking. cannon5D / 28-105 / ISO1600 / no flash
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Come forward / and face me, / fear cannot stop / what is the path, / for it yours / to vanquish. / For,was it not you / whom chose / the passage. / Was it not / your soul reflected / in eyes, / pleading to know. / Summit, what / you must, / for only then, / can you find / yourself, / void of / fear. cannon5D / 28-105 / 1250 iso / no flash / -1 ex
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It’s a story of a girl, who lives in an adverse world…but she is determine to face it… /
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With No Immediate Cause By Ntozake Shange / (pronounced en-to-zaki shong-gay) every 3 minutes a woman is beaten every five minutes a woman is raped/every ten minutes a lil girl is molested yet i rode the subway today i sat next to an old man who may have beaten his old wife 3 minutes ago or 3 days/30 years ago he might have sodomized his daughter but i sat there cuz the young men on the train might beat some young women later in the day or tomorrow i might not shut my door fast every 3 minutes it happens some woman’s innocence rushes to her cheeks/pours from her mouth like the betsy wetsy dolls have been torn apart/their mouths menses red & split/every three minutes a shoulder is jammed through plaster and the oven door/ chairs push thru the rib cage/hot water or boiling sperm decorate her body i rode the subway today & bought a paper from a man who might have held his old lady onto a hot pressing iron/i don’t know maybe he catches lil girls in the park & rips open their behinds with steel rods/i can’t decide what he might have done i only know every 3 minutes every 5 minutes every 10 minutes/so i bought the paper looking for the announcement the discovery/of the dismembered woman’s body/the victims have not all been identified/today they are naked and dead/refuse to testify/one girl out of 10’s not coherent/i took the coffee & spit it up/i found an announcement/not the woman’s bloated body in the river/floating not the child bleeding in the 59th street corridor/not the baby broken on the floor/ there is some concern that alleged battered women might start to murder their husbands & lovers with no immediate cause” i spit up i vomit i am screaming we all have immediate cause every 3 minutes every 5 minutes every 10 minutes every day women’s bodies are found in alleys & bedrooms/at the top of the stairs before i ride the subway/buy a paper/drink coffee/i must know/ have you hurt a woman today did you beat a woman today throw a child across a room are the lil girl’s panties in yr pocket did you hurt a woman today i have to ask these obscene questions the authorities require me to establish immediate cause every three minutes every five minutes every ten minutes every day. Foot note: I am just an artist, not an activist.
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The lightness of being is represented to me most poignantly in the pale yellow petals of the lotus blossom suspended elegantly above the dark murky waters of life. /
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You are unique and there is only one of you like you in the world-so keep leaning in your own special way!
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Fallen angel without wings stuck in a dead tree. Photo based mixed medium art.
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Bird out of cage. Photo based illustration with textures and patterns.
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Goat. Photo based illustration. “The scapegoat was a goat that was driven off into the wilderness as part of the ceremonies of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in Judaism during the times of the Temple in Jerusalem. The rite is described in Leviticus 16. / The word is more widely used as a metaphor, referring to someone who is blamed for misfortunes, generally as a way of distracting attention from the real causes.” (quoted anonymous)
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Shamanic angel martyr hiding face with stigmata on the hands. Photo base illustration.
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Dark abstract fish with open mouth. Photo based illustration.
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Strong wind and snow drift blast this Adelie penguin – he takes it in his stride; Cape Denison, Antarctica. EOS 20D; ISO400, 105mm, f/8, 1/1000 sec. Low light and wanted to freeze action (even though it was already freezing!)
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MCN :: CQ22T-QJSXB-2Y3RA / / / in Photo Manipulators Nov. 29th 2009 Texture / Layers: My own / Model: Me THE UNATTAINABLE IDEAL We ought to live / each day as though / it were our last day / here below. But if I did, alas, / I know / it would have killed me / long ago. / ~ Piet Hein
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It has been raining for over 24 hrs straight. / It never stops the tenacious ones, though. / They will get what they need, no matter what.. adversity is but a play thing for them … They smile in the face of what we percieve as adversity :)
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The mortar between the stones harbours an outside chance. A rewarding depth of field idea, this shot is untouched and as shot. The focus field is at the lens’ closest distance of 0.45m, wide open of course. I was delighted that the field of focus equaled the width of the crack, and so highlights the contents .. Olympus e410 / g.zuiko vintage OM prime 1:1.4/50mm [100mm@4:3] f1.4 ISO 100 1/5 sec
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