The years have numbered one score and five, almost to the day, since I fled Sydney’s darkened alleyways cloaked and choked in the inartic…
The years have numbered one score and five, almost to the day, since I fled Sydney’s darkened alleyways cloaked and choked in the inarticulate wog girl shame of who I was. I journeyed by mail train, longing to be engulfed in the tropical steam trailing in tattered drifts outside my window, as I lay through the long night, hungry and huddled around a ‘hot box’ for meagre warmth. My creaking polished ‘dog box’ mausoleum lulled me, carrying me through unfamiliar terrain as I awaited my rebirth into new adventure. Hording my secret desire to begin again, to start afresh, to write a script of my own choosing. / It was within the leafy canopy of a Toowong ‘Queenslander’ that I became enchanted with views of the rambling graveyard. And it was here that my succubus – ‘that which lies below,’ – stole seductively into my life on bat wings of heroin desire. The ethereal allure of her hypnagogic nocturnal visitations were persuasive. Her supernatural beauty caressed me, separating me gently from my slumbering body with a new lover’s sighing promises. / Even after returning to Sydney, some time later, I was blind with lust for her. She became my soul’s desire in every waking and dreaming moment. I had fallen prey to her hypnotic charms. I lay entranced; my free will had tethered itself to my dreams of her. My energy drained freely. Her kisses sucked in my spirit with each breath that she took from me. I knew my soul was being stolen. Still, though, I felt I could choose. / When I came near to that point of utter exhaustion, the prelude to final extinguishment, I vacillated. Should I willingly offer up my last essence of self to her or clutch my remains in my own hands, and thus leave the fetid comfort of her embrace? / Resolute at last, determined to feel and countenance my pain again, I stand and face my jilted lover. But she intercepts my utterances and I swoon beneath her lips and the feel of her skin erotically insinuated against my own. I feel my resolve dissipating, yet cling, wondering why. / She anticipates my resistance and thrusts me to the bed. Why am I resisting? I have forgotten. I only know I must… must… Must I? Must what? But before my thoughts can clarify she has become a crushing, claustrophobic pressure on my chest. I feel I am suffocating. Fearfully I look in my lover’s eyes. Her unearthly beauty has metamorphosed. Grown huge and angry. Commanding and compelling. / I turn my head when her lips seek my failing breath, but I can resist no longer. As she looms above me, shapeshifting grotesquely from Succubus to Incubus, I am only dully aware of the demon’s prick, impregnating me with the seed of this shapeshifter’s viral load. / And as the Incubus courses through my blood, I now know my sexual deviancy has been a mortal sin against god. That I am deserving of my fate. Eternally damned. I have not found escape from my entrapment at all, at all. Now she will haunt me perpetually to death’s door. / For years I kept my shame deeply buried within the basement floor. The twisted key to the cellar door hung heavily at my throat. And thus I managed to keep her venomous touch at arms length still, with herbal sprigs and decoctions, holy water and full moon incantations. Until that fateful day I felt in my body that she had broken loose; she was no longer held at bay, and ascended emblazoned in fury. / My liver flailed and howled in impotence at her assault; her scarification, her withering. My daily doses of tinctures and glycetracts no longer warded off her poisonous cirrhosis. My succubus had once again shapeshifted and in a measured scrambling ascent from her sepulchre in the depths, metamorphosed yet again into the Incubus; into ‘that which lies above’ and must be countenanced. The virus, no longer slumbering, torrented relentlessly through my veins, caustically wreaking havoc in every organ, tissue and bones’ marrow. My jaundiced viral load now transfigured effortlessly, evading all my natural defences. Beguiled no longer, I became increasingly concerned. / The physicians, who previously had held out little hope for my condition, now offered me salvation in the form of a drastic new healing. But, and here was my inducement, it came with the lure of a cure. The odds of success were fifty/fifty, the treatments highly noxious and of one full year’s duration. For half the patients the results were everlasting! Could it be that my penance may be payed in full, at last? My philandering past put behind me? Ah, to be unleashed bfrom the haunting of hepatic shadows of guilt and shame: to grasp my birthright’s claim to health and to have a life lived fully. / / Donning my cape, one rain slicked afternoon, hat pulled low over my eyes, my silent feet padded the mortared steps of Lismore’s merchant district. Stealthily I slid between wooden doors and overstuffed chairs into a round-tabled boardroom under phosphorescent chandeliers. / Other furtive hepers slipped through the doors in ones and twos. All of us wore the shame of our seduction, our flirtations with our Succubi, emblazoned defiantly across our breasts, their shadows looming at our backs. And as our fears were shared; peeling away in the garnered courage of tales retold, the spectres of our demons were dispelled. It was only then that I knew I possessed the courageousness to see this through. Thus in the company of this motley crew, my guard has slipped, my shame is borne, in camaraderie and optimism my journey towards redemption has begun. ©
Wow :) :) Just found one of my photos blogged on the above site :) It’s not so much that one of my photos got blogged … I find a lot of my photography around the traps … what excited me was that of ALL the photos on Red Bubble …. they chose In Your House to display!! WOW Wooooot woooooh ;) VBSVBS
...and that’s not all!! ;p! LOL! / / Recently I’ve been approached by a Magazine called Rhythm UK and hav…
...and that’s not all!! ;p! LOL! / / Recently I’ve been approached by a Magazine called Rhythm UK and have got my first assignment coming up this weekend but more on that later! / Heaps of credit must go to Red Bubble here becasue it was purely through my online portfolio that I was contacted and given an opportunity! / / Now onto others matters… The four images shown below will be on exhibit at the Fuhzou Contemporary Art Fair in June 2008 / / Heaven One All Aboard The Way Out The Train of All Lost Hopes & Dreams / / ...and an update on Hearts at War / Five images from the original exhibition are going to be exibited in Fuzhou, China and in Barcelona, Spain in June 2008!! / / Also, on a local note this image… / / / / ... is a finalist at the 2008 Kodak Salon at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Fitzroy!! / / Hearts at War will also be exhibited by the Brunswick St Gallery at Art Melbourne in April 2008 / / Peace and Love… and bear hugs to you all! :D
Tonight I headed down to the opening of the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria’s “Collectors’ Exhibition” opening at Steps Gallery in C…
Tonight I headed down to the opening of the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria’s “Collectors’ Exhibition” opening at Steps Gallery in Carlton. I didn’t know anyone else who had work included in the show, and being a Sunday night I didn’t hold too much hope of friends turning out, though I knew Chris had mentioned coming along. Shortly after my arrival I came across him and we nattered and checked out the art. On getting to my work I found some folk closely eyeing both images and the page dedicated to me in the catalogue (as below). Chris mentioned they’d been doing that for a while. Of course I was pleased, but ever the “don’t count your chickens” girl, I moved back around the exhibition and we perused other work, discussed other photographic stuffs, sampled the finger food and grabbed another glass of red. I only noticed three photographs in the whole exhibition, and two of those were my own. After conversation in the foyer, we returned to the show and out of curiosity I went to check my work, only to find a lovely red spot by Domestic Goddess Although this isn’t my first print sold, it is my first print sold in a gallery show, and on the opening night, no less, so I am quite chuffed. Here’s hoping that my other print will sell too :D
I just got this business card printed for myself. :) I do these as a freelance designer so if you have any orders, let me know and I’l…
I just got this business card printed for myself. :) I do these as a freelance designer so if you have any orders, let me know and I’ll whip something up for you too! / / /
LIES PERCEPTIONS AND BELIEFS *BY RL HALL AND LINAJI...
LIES PERCEPTIONS AND BELIEFS BY RL HALL AND LINAJI A collaboration of loving work between rlhall & linaji – Webs & Layers Your Spiritual side is wise, intuitive, creative, loving, compassionate, peaceful, forgiving, always aspiring to truth and goodness – or – your life is lived in confusion, anger, and perhaps, even, layers of lies and deceit.” ~ Dr. John Sarno, The Divided Mind “If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” / ~ Dogen “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine Saint-Exupéry “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” ~ William Blake _“Believe that your life is worth living, and your belief will create the fact.” ~ William James Acceptance ~ Robert Frost When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud / And goes down burning into the gulf below, / No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud / At what has happened. Birds, at least must know / It is the change to darkness in the sky. / Murmuring something quiet in her breast, / One bird begins to close a faded eye; / Or overtaken too far from his nest, / Hurrying low above the grove, some waif / Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. / At most he thinks or twitters softly, ‘Safe! / Now let the night be dark for all of me. / Let the night be too dark for me to see / Into the future. Let what will be, be.’_ _Layers of Beliefs I have unfurled my wisdom / And before me / I only know / Truths / That have been born and branded / By my hand / How can it be any other way? I have heard and have been told / Of / About / Yours… / But My core is the listener / The one who knew before the knowing / Or of the Telling We are parted now.. / maybe for 4 years or 10 / Maybe it is not again But the knowing you / Was like a root plant / Better left in the shade of its’ own calling Than to open to the sun of my smile / Or yours. Past Lives are just that, / Past.. The Now that pulsates and thrives Has been dropped from view.. It is no longer about you Time for a new lesson Time for a new view._ Thank You Everyone, espically RL Hall for linking into my heart and for setting up most of this show.. her finding the amazing quotes from our favorite poets and leaders made the core of our work shine!! What a pleasure this collaboration was between us!
Just got back from a trip to Melbourne to find I’ve sold 22 cards. A big thank you. What a wonderful start to the week. After several f…
Just got back from a trip to Melbourne to find I’ve sold 22 cards. A big thank you. What a wonderful start to the week. After several features in my groups and National magazines it’s safe to say my confidence is high. How important is confidence and self-belief? “Your most important sale is to sell yourself to yourself” – very true. Have a great week everyone. Regards Paul
Expressions is my self-published anthology of some of the short stories I have written; includi…
Expressions is my self-published anthology of some of the short stories I have written; including published and unpublished works. It is a mixed genre showbag of some of my early stories and includes everything from sci-fi to contemporary pieces.
thank u very much to the anonymous buyers for purchasing my Calenders - / 6 copies Mornington Peninsula...
thank u very much to the anonymous buyers for purchasing my Calenders - / 6 copies Mornington Peninsula / / 4 copies Graffiti around Melbourne / / Thanks to redbubble for producing such a wonderful product
I am very honored and grateful!! It is one of my most beloved creations ever, and it’s almost 31 years old now;-)
I have been approached to exhibit my art for 9 days at the local art gallery. I am an enthusiastic learner but this is new territory for …
I have been approached to exhibit my art for 9 days at the local art gallery. I am an enthusiastic learner but this is new territory for me. I am awaiting date confirmation but I believe this will be sometime in June 2009. If anyone has any tips, support, advice, know-how on how to make this a positive venture (with sales) any suggestions, feedback, comments on how to be a successsful ‘exhibitionist’ would be most welcomed.
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/ Yesterday (Link to Page) The sun rose on fields / snow blown and misted / ghostly swirls and dervishes. / No fog this.. / for fog simply lies. / No…this was living / as it arched and twisted, / fingering out to the road / and reaching for me / like the shade of a beloved friend. Thank you to the Group Moderators
Hi everyone, / just letting you all know that i won the yr 9 and 10 category of the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize with my black an…
Hi everyone, / just letting you all know that i won the yr 9 and 10 category of the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize with my black and white photo “The Line”. I was very happy to use my $3000 prize money to buy a new Canon EOS 50D. / Thank you all for your support and comments :) Wanagi
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Thank you so much for featuring “Twilight Dreams” and to the wonderful hosts Alice McMahon White and Valerie Simms. A newly discovered gr…
Thank you so much for featuring “Twilight Dreams” and to the wonderful hosts Alice McMahon White and Valerie Simms. A newly discovered group that has prompted me to experiment more with pastels. Thank you both so much!! /
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Pastel Painters” thanks to Moderators , check out their absolutely incredible fabulous art! / Alice McMahon“ and Valerie Simms >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> / The Cry of the Curlew by Peter Watt / The Cry of the Curlew from a fictional novel but based on fact, is very involved ..In the early days of white people occupying and taking over the indigenous people’s land in outback Australia the native aboriginals were considered vermin and there was a determined effort to make them extinct, one way to do this was to poison their waterholes.;hence the two figures in the waterhole.I did this in similar way rock art is drawn, the legend is whenever there is a death the bush curlew cries I haven’t heard one, but they only cry when distressed and apparently the sound is really long mournful and once heard not forgotten.
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“Gold and Scarlet” was featured in * Painted Ladies *23 minutes ago “Gold and Scarlet” was featured in Out of the Past5 days ago / ...
“Gold and Scarlet” was featured in * Painted Ladies *23 minutes ago “Gold and Scarlet” was featured in Out of the Past5 days ago “Gold and Scarlet” was featured in Contemporary Pastel Painters7 days ago I am very behind on things but thought I’d share this and say a great big THANKYOU to all the moderators and wonderful people that make groups and features possible! / I also want to thank all the gracious people that have taken their time to leave such wonderful comments on my art. You really make my day! / God bless, / Jean :-)
Hi everyone, Well, we spent a long day in th…
Hi everyone, Well, we spent a long day in the studio today hanging paintings and it’s so satisfying to finally have this all done now. It feels great, more spacious and more like a real gallery. We’ve had the hanging system lying on the floor of the studio for well over a year now, and never got round to actually putting it up, so I thought I’d share a couple of pics with you guys!! I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it before, but I have lots of original paintings for sale, if anyone is ever interested in the original work, give me a yell and we can talk turkey :) I have lots and lots that are unframed too and you can’t see ‘em here .. so let me know if you see something you like in my portfolio and would like the original
I cannot stress highly enough how much a new artist here on red bubble has affected me today…
I cannot stress highly enough how much a new artist here on red bubble has affected me today!! Watch this Video To quote part of the plaque written by the Anti Anorexia organisation next to the paintings in the exhibit… Beauty Ideals change. Today celebrities, the media, and the fashion industry all promote body measurements that are unattainable with healthy eating behaviours. Remus Grecu was the young artist hired to paint the series. A series that to me portrays a strong & vital message for women of todays society so poignantly. Click on the images below to visit the works…. (and he has some wonderful other work in his portfolio too)
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for featuring Arch in Utah and for using the Face as an image for their new challenge something within I hope those of you, who work in pastel and conte will join the group and enter challenges! it is really a great group! Thank you, Alice, Maria and Valerie!
Featured in the Solo Exhibition group next week! / Come along to see and join in with the forum which starts on Monday.
Get in quick for this 3 days only Promotion. With Christmas almost 6 weeks away, now is definitely the time to get on with your Christmas…
Get in quick for this 3 days only Promotion. With Christmas almost 6 weeks away, now is definitely the time to get on with your Christmas shopping. If you purchase any of my matted, laminated, mounted, canvas or framed prints, in the next 3 days, AND if you spend the most in that one transaction (out of all of my sales received in this 3 day promo period), you will receive a FREE 2010 Calendar of your choice by Elana Bailey Just remember to bubblemail or email me with a notification of your sale, so that I know who to send the winning 2010 Calendar, of your choice, to. But you only have 3 days, as it ends Thursday November 12th at 11pm GMT or Friday November 13th at 10am Melbourne, Australia time. (Check your local time here) So please get in quick and take advantage of this promotion. Cheers and Merry Christmas Elana /
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