Watch the Video here The wounds on your hands never seem to heal / I thought all I needed was to believe Here am i, a lifetime away from you / The blood of christ, or the beat of my heart / My love wears forbidden colours / My life believes Senseless years thunder by / Millions are willing to give their lives for you / Does nothing live on? Learning to cope with feelings aroused in me / My hands in the soil, buried inside of myself / My love wears forbidden colours / My life believes in you once again Ill go walking in circles / While doubting the very ground beneath me / Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything / Here am i, a lifetime away from you / The blood of christ, or a change of heart My love wears forbidden colours / My life believes / My love wears forbidden colours / My life believes in you once again Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian / From the movie Merry Christmas Mister Lawrence
Abstract photograph of a flower
A lamp post in Chongqing, China. A brightly and vibrantly lit city.
Acrylic / Painted by Ciska Jan 2008 / On Stretched Canvas / 91.2cm x 61cm ORIGINAL FOR SALE / AU$1,200.00 AU Ciska’s Original Works also available at Top Frames Castletown Shopping Centre Townsville Queensland
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This waterfall is called Dante’s Glen which is at Lawson in The Blue Mountains / there are some picnic grounds near by and St Michaels and Fairy Falls. Thanks to Will Barton who took us on the Sydney meet up at the Blue Mountains!
Medium: Acrylic, oil based ink, linen thread on canvas. / Size: 1220 mm x 1220 mm x 37 mm. / About: Acrylic and textured layers have been built up in a multiple page layout composition. This references back to a symbolic page format inspired from my ‘Book of Threads’ artist book. All is the manifested evidence of my ongoing passionate spirit for exploration, play, textures and discovery of the subliminal and generating of self-enlightenment about the human condition. For contrasting perceptions: there are several levels here / for example in relation to time, energies and colour – between the old (faded, worn down, past chapters – memories/knowledge, traces, remnants) and the new (current pages, chapters, fresh, bright, bold, strong); between the representation of spirit (gold/blue, channels/passage) and worldly matter (earthy, oxide colours, grids/boundaries). Symbolic/parallel meanings are explored through the multiple pages (time, chapters, traces), X’s (as is above, so is below, zero point, vortex, connections), multi-generational vessels (containment, alchemy, reflection, passing on of wisdom/knowledge), passage channels (transition, spirit, motion), stitched threads (attachment, fusion, parallels, spirit/matter, relationships, passage, traces), colours (emotional, spiritual/worldly, energies, alchemy) and the floating leaf (passage, transit, motion, carrier of thought/dreams). Work is from the solo exhibition Elevating the Spirit ... “where connections, relationships and unity are explored through visual language elements and symbology, between one’s inner-self (soul, spirit, life-force, essence), psyche and the outer world. Notions of passage, transition (change), duality, reflection, containment and synthesis (fusion) are contemplated and reflected upon.”
the moon is rising high … / let’s go out and feel the night … / I want see you dance again under the harvest moon ... Work done in PaintShopPro and Gimp. Best viewed large. Ksq 08 0017 081109 8
Fiery colours of leaves outside a shop in Takayama, Japan
“Solitude” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © A bare limbed tree silhouetted against the rising sun. “Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.” / ~Paul Johannes Tillich
My other works: / A LARGER view to see more in detail… / (Long side is only 1024 here) EXIF: / Taken with a Canon EOS 400D Digital. Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000) ISO Speed: 100 Aperture: f/5.6 Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows Metering Mode: Partial Focal Length: 67 mm Exposure Program: Shutter priority Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV Flash: Flash did not fire White Balance: Manual
Little decorative stars ! :) Shot with Canon PowerShot A550. Related pics :
A colorful mandala that represents the Inner Eye – the tenth gate that leads into the inner realms of consciousness. Raga Yaman work done in PaintShopPro with post work in Gimp. Best viewed large. High Resolution image has greater detail and texture. also available as a black Tshirt in varying sizes and styles / M 09 0001 090106 10
Medium: Mixed-media: acrylic, pastel, linen thread, banana fibre, fabric – hessian, tarlatan; butterfly wing, leaf, rice paper, paper. / Support: Canvas / Techniques: Collage, painting, drawing, banana fibre basketry, stitching. / Size 8” x 6” / Original sold at Postcard Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery. / SYMBOLISM: Abstract, Archetypal Expressionism Acknowledgement of transitional states and the work of the spirit through the repetition of the X’s reflecting time, movement, physical attachment – stitching, threads. The X’s: also vortex symbol, “As is above, so is below”, spirit/matter, heaven/earth realms, parallels, thoughts, manifestation, mesh, grid, lattice, interconnections, signifying realms of planes – a particular level of existence, mental activity, achievement. Channels, layers, stitching, butterfly wing, leaf – passage, transit, conduit, levels, parallels, planes, carriers. Vessels – embodiment of your ‘being’, container, inner alchemy processes, all is one; open, receive, filter, give and take, shelter, nurture, protect, shadow self, dualities. Colours/fabric, rice paper collage – Primal, energy/chakra levels, alchemies, signifying realms of existence, of various planes – worldly, spiritual.
Fractal work done in Sterling with post work in PaintShopPro and Gimp. Best viewed large. ST 09 0006 090330 13
Untouched reflection photographs taken in a wheelbarrow full of rainwater. Best viewed LARGE
Fractal work done in Iterations with post work in Gimp and PaintShopPro. Best viewed large. variation of this image is also available as notecards IT 09 0003 K 090409 15
View other work from this series Uralla, Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia. Best viewed LARGE
Year 2007 / Medium: mixed – acrylic, fabric, linen thread, rice paper. / Support: Canvas / Techniques: painting, stitching, collage, / Height 1016 mm x Width 1016 mm x Depth 37 mm / / From the Exhibition Elevating the Spirit. / Exhibited: 2007 Cairns Regional Gallery, Sugarama Gallery (Mourilyan); 2009 Umbrella Studio (Townsville). Abstract symbols portrayed: / - upright/upside-down vessels, for containment, alchemy / - a superimposed collaged grid layer of squares, made up of personal fabric remnants with inlaid diagonal leaf and abstract vessel shapes for transitional states; / - large X’s (X = As is above, so is below; bonding/attachment) are stitched in a spirit channel/passage line; / - linear boundaries, primal colours and contrasting tones define dualities; / - parallel lines create spatial depth, layers, veils of 3D illusions and hidden/secret passages; / - title/numbers also reference hidden symbology. /
Playing with my new glass. Ideas for a better play on words in the title? Nikon D200 and a Nikkor 50mm f/1.4, 50mm, f/1.4
/ We stopped by Minter Gardens on our way home from our roadtrip to Harrison BC in October…..I took a couple of photographs before I realized that the garden was actually closed to the public and we were not supposed to be there (oops). The original photograph was taken using the pop art filter in camera, which made the colour looks quite psychedelic . I have added several texture layers and have desaturated the colours a bit (believe it or not). I realize this won’t appeal to everyone, but as a lover of strong and bold colour I am kind of partial to it :))
Going for Gold at Christmas / What did Santa bring you for Christmas this year???? Selfportrait:-) Captured at our dining room table on Boxing Day 2009. / / Nikon D700 with 50mm f/1.4 Lense / /
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