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Special Closeout Sale – Large (30×22.5) Gallery-wrapped canvas / $149.99 / Buy it here ThomasDodd.com/Store One of my few images of a MALE God form… Bacchus represents revelry, drunkeness, poetic intoxication and lust. We all need a bit of his madness in our souls – but not TOO much! / (This manipulation is of a self portrait by flickr user “teenage jesus”)
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The Huldra is a creature in Scandanavian Myth that takes on the appearance of a beautiful young woman so it can lure it’s male victims into the forest (with the promise of kinky sex no doubt!) where she devours them.. The Huldra is a shapeshifter and often is in a “inbetween” stage where half of her torso is a hollowed out tree..which she can slip in and out of as need be… Technical stuff for all you PhotoShop geeks – This took approximately 12 hours to do and has 27 layers (several of those layers are “adjustment layers” (especially using “curves”)as well as the usual texture and color overlays..) / All photographs used (model, forest background, tree trunk ,vines, and textures) were shot by me – absolutely no stock images used…
I have been an agnostic leaning towards athiest for a long long time – but the concept behind this muse is one I whole-heartedly “believe”.. We ARE our anscestors -and DNA is the magic spiral that the the ancients knew so well
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... / The wounded part of her / is sealed with his abandonment / buried deep inside / and still she feels his disapproval / She seeks it in a million men / she rejects them like he rejected her / and still she remains / the little girl whose love was twisted / all those years ago (dedicated to my ex)
BETTER VIEWED LARGER Built originally as Dodds Family Hotel and later becoming a residence, is Athol. Its 1890 facade is stuccoed and parapetted and there are facetted bay windows to either end, with a bullnose verandah and decorative iron frieze in between the bays. In Hill End’s boom period there were 51 pubs in and at times that was not enough accommodation, so people slept on floors, billiard tables and whereever they could. Dodd’s hotel is thought to predate it’s facade possibly dating back the 1870’s The colouring of this shot is exagerated from Tone mapping , but it adds to a classic building VIEW THE HILL END HDR SERIES / Hill End – HDR Series Series /
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“It’s cold outside / And the paint’s peeling off of my walls / There’s a man outside / In a long coat, grey hat, smoking a cigarette Now the light fades out / And I wonder what I’m doing in a room like this / There’s a knock on the door / And just for a second I thought I remembered you So now I’m alone / Now I can think for myself / About little deals and issues / And things that I just don’t understand / A white lie that night / Or a sly touch at times / I don’t think it meant anything to you So I open the door / It’s the friend that I’d left in the hallway / ‘Please sit down’ / A candlelit shadow on a wall near the bed You know I hate to ask / But are ‘friends’ electric? / Only mine’s broke down / And now I’ve no-one to love So I found out your reasons / For the phone calls and smiles / And it hurts and I’m lonely / And I should never have tried / And I missed you tonight / So it’s time to leave / You see it meant everything to me..” (Gary Numan) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0WNbm1jz6A&feature=related
Idea by Old Gregg Illustration by Damien
models – Athena and Alia
Buy it here ThomasDodd.com/Store And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting / On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; / And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming. / And the lamplight o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; / And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor / Shall be lifted—-nevermore! / (Edgar Allan Poe) Model – Lachymose
The secret of eternal youth is very, very simple You NEVER grow up / and always take time to imagine and to play… / The flesh turns grey / the body decays / but the imagination is what we leave behind…
Come away O human child! / To the waters and the wild / With a faery hand in hand, / For the world’s more full of weeping / than you can understand… (William Butler Yeats)
Buy it here ThomasDodd.com/Store.. There is a phenomenon that Jazz musicians call “Woodshedding” which is when a player retreats from the world of playing gigs and locks himself in a room (or woodshed as the case may be) until he “gets it right”..or has a breakthrough in his skill/creativity level.. Interestingly enough an artistic form of woodshedding is precisely what inspired this piece ; I have consciously been working on getting better as an artist and this piece represents the breakthrough – both in technique and in inspiration… Quite frankly – it is the first piece that I am truly satisfied with, the first where there isn’t a little voice telling me that I am not good enough and it is now the benchmark for my future works… I am never looking back again…
Buy it here ThomasDodd.com/Store More and more I am obsessed / with the play of light among the trees / casting shadows upon the illuminated landscape / With the textures that surround me, / with their intricacy and chaotic order / the patterns of eternity scream in silence / and I transcriibe them as they assault my senses / with their beautifully alive madness…
Buy it here ThomasDodd.com/Store “We can have some more .. / Nature is a whore .. / Bruises on the fruit / Tender age in bloom…” (Nirvana – “In Bloom”)
Portrait of my dear firend and long-time model Laurie Lovell. She was back in town the other day and I had the privilege of hanging out with her and her fiance Jacob and of course – creating Art again..
The heart is a lonely hunter…. model – Emily Hammond
Daydreaming is good for the soul and we need it in our lives so we can know what we need to work towards in our lucid hours… May your 2010 be filled with daydreams…
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