Body life
311 creative works found
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From The Depth II
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My personal favourite of my images iv ever done.
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Mixed medium photo based illustration of hands in meditation with tree.
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From the Depth
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From a thought / an emotion / From Love / a miracle / Excitement / Anticipation / Expectation / Dedication / Inspiration / Gives new meaning / to life / To love / Caring / Sharing / To Live / Knowing you / Have made my life complete
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Blowing paint through a straw. There’s also a black version: /
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Many people find a fascination with youth, beauty and the advancement of old age. As we all know looks fade and with age, there is another source / of beauty despite the wrinkles and apparent signs of aging that we all must face in what has been referred to as “the croning years.” In Western culture, there is so much emphasis on external beauty that women and men feel compelled to find surgical solutions, creams, botox, liposuction and any method possible to slow down the aging process and retain the appearance of youth. For hundreds of years we in the West have been taught to deny ourselves. “Mind over Matter” is a time-honored maxim that has merit in treating illness, but the danger is that true body wisdom or the messages we receive about our bodies must be ignored or denied. Every magazine gives us methods of ridding ourselves of undesirable pounds and the newest trends and fads for reversing the aging process. One woman born in the Netherlands and moved to the United States expressed her pain about her anorexic daughter who did not feel accepted or physically attractive unless she was frightfully thin. Her mom asked, what happened to the idea of “aging gracefully?” She felt that her elderly mother was more beautiful with age and the wrinkles on her aging face showed a wisdom and inner beauty that was absent in youth. Observing her daughter’s fierce compulsion to stop the clock and pursue anything that would mask the aging process was very painful to her mother, an immigrant to the United States who had enjoyed values that helped her deal with aging and the passage of time. She told me that the term “immigrant grief” described her inability to teach her daughter who was in her mid thirties that she was more beautiful now than ever before. Many women and men can not face aging and the general result is that the body and its functions have been relegated to the shadow side of life;regarded as dark and possibly evil. As Jung points out, “The body is a most doubtful friend because it produces things we do not like;there are too many things about the body which cannot be mentioned. The body is very often the personification of the shadow of the ego. Sometimes it forms the skeleton in the cupboard, and everybody naturally wants to get rid of such a thing.” We need our animal selves, our bone, muscle, and instinct-laden physicality to survive on this planet. One wonders why we as a culture have become so anti-body, as our very flesh were a disease against which we must wage war. Jung hoped that “we can reconcile ourselves to the mysterious truth that the spirit is the living body seen from within, and the body is the outer manifestation of the living spirit.” / For centuries many terrible cures attempted to cleanse the collective psyche or the ancient goddess worship that honored the female body as the matrix in which there were no divisions. There are many books that celebrate the return of the Goddess, to cherish the power of the feminine and to accept all the disowned parts of the psyche that lead us to illness and become pathological enough that we are forced to notice. When disowned aspects of ourselves are repressed, fear is projected onto the body in such forms as siren, enchantress, witch, hag and devouring mother. When we face our greatest fears, we also see the glimmering hope of of a new creative life. / When we accept that as we age our bodies are mortal, we can embrace our terrors and our failures and the hope for the celebrations to come, when what we have incubated emerges from the underworld. Legend and myth tell us again and again that transformation is possible. The maiden becomes the queen. The dragon becomes prince or princess. The fool becomes wise. The naive attitudes of youth change and develop. Slowly we become ourselves, free to be the keepers of memory and wisdom. We learn when to be silent and when to speak, what can be shared and what is secret. We learn to honor our bodies even as they begin to fail. We come to a visceral understanding of the cycles of change and our part in them. Ulrich Schaffer writes in his book of poems, Surprised By Light; “Again and again the miracle takes place / in the amazing transformation / in which the air turns into leaves / and the earth becomes roots, / in which the sun fills the seed to bursting / then lets it break open and sprouts, / New life breaks through / in the transformation of death. We are sustained by the surprise of the miracle, / by the change of the seasons, / and I am a link in this miraculous chain, / In me the unchangeable also changes, / and I know that I would break / the rhythm of creation / if I did not change / I would be dead to life / even as I continued to live. I am not yearning for great miracles, / but for the daily change, / the almost imperceptivle rebirth, / the insignificant miracle of growth, / which is greater than all others. “ It is a sad fact that as we approach old age, the deterioration or our bodies / seem loathsome. In fright, we run off into frantic activity, becoming too busy to think or feel as we sink deeper and deeper into a paralyzing depression. / Only rarely do we have the wisdom to honor our changes and allow their development. Most of us, unguided and untaught, flee in fear from the life that precedes our old age and death. Today in the Western world the human life span is increasing, and as it does, the need grows for a deeper wisdom that can help older persons honor rather than deny the physical and psychological relinquishing that precedes a late blooming. We are explorers of a stage of life that is different than it was for previous generations. The years of coming to age are now a new challenge and like most challenges bring the stresses of relinquishing familiar ways. Going through the changes of this time can be as exciting and as difficult as any outer journey. Those of us now coming to age are pathfinders, hopefully marking a way for others to follow.
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A bit of commentary on what society does to our perception of our bodies… / The big squeeze has been selected to be part of the Celebrate Herstory 2009 exhibition run by Manhattan Arts International.
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Life drawing using ink, charcoal, and pastel /
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How does one communicate love from a distant land, not knowing for certain, whether they’ll return…? Found envelope, old anatomy chart, defibrillator pads, string and undisclosed form of communication inside envelope. Part of the mixed media collection. Circa 2006
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Natural Light Beer – Inspired by my brother.. since he’s a fan of this…. always talking about Natty Light and how popular it is among college students everywhere.. and it’s cheap beer, also.
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Hot black stone treatment in spa
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Hot black stone treatment in spa
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It was an old mirror, and silvered, and very tired. It was determined to cast no more reflections.
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Created with Apophysis fractal software. Featured in the Art/Feature category!
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View Large please.. Who Are We outside of Time Space Reality? / We are the vibrational essence that equals the culmination of all that has been lived both physically and nonphysically. We are an energy that is expanding consciously and constantly because of the willingness of physical experience and its contribution to the never-ending want or desire. We are the expanded version of who each of you are and we are the pure ESSENCE of that expanded version that is never finished and never done.. Blamo..Tone / opened my eyes to the pairing of this incredible / Eminem Song Lose Yourself / Also the other One I love is Sing for The Moment
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Thanks to Dana For The photo of me! The rest of the image is compiled from photos I took. / Basically the message here is / No matter how stormy life gets… / No matter how pulled in 20 directions you feel… / No matter stressed you get.. / There is hope, and it is a place that resides in you / A Place where no pain can touch you… / A place for Internal Peace, even only for a moment / It is yours, it is In you, and you can find it / All you need do is look.
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Poem by Linaji Frivolity and Passion / fused evenly / Dancing queen in pink / frivolous to the end / Passion sings in pure wink / a steady flow of romance / lending each other hand in hand, / a way to fly to the story / that ends in a union fit for life / unseen and unheard of / but created none the less / You see… / the roots are deeper than you think INSPIRED BY DANCING QUEEN AHHH IF ONLY LIFE COULD SAY.. SCREW IT ..LETS DANCE!!
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3D Hack Apophysis MUSIC
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Truly Inspired by my friend and Co Creator / Jim Marshals / work called the mandala with the nipple at the center / . / I may joke with my friends but when I read your work.. I know what is hitting me at my center, it is my world to find joy even in the moments when all else seems should be serious.. / There is Only Folly.!
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