Family fun floating down a river just enjoying, not doin anything.Cold water recreation for those hot summer days…..This has been manipulated to appear more as a painting….Image taken along the Little River,Townsend, Tn
Beautiful decorated bath at Christmas time.
Located within the spacious grounds of the Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, Japan, the Great Pagoda of Peace is a huge tahoto type pagoda. Although the Naritasan site dates back to 940AD this Pagoda was erected in prayer for world peace in 1984. World leaders’ messages and prayers for eternal world peace have been placed in the time capsule which lies under the ground beneath this Great Pagoda.
Acrylics & oil pastels on canvas
2008 Copyright. All Rights Reserved to Mariam Muradian. This painting was directly inspired by one of the visions I had in the Native American “Deeksha” Healing/Blessing on New Year’s Eve. My eyes were closed. / I saw penetrating yellow light pouring and radiating out from behind my eyes. I was able to see things in a “Maxfield Parrish way” again. Now consider from whence I have come….. August 2006 I was given a drug to assist my heart; helping to end 40 years of continual “heart attack magnitude” chest pain and to keep me from slipping in and out of consciousness. It was a new, still somewhat experimental, drug on the market….aka “expensive”. In January 2007, after my 13th heart surgery, the drug was increased to get me past a difficult recovery. I began having elevating pressures in my eyes and pain like knives inside my eyes. Very rapidly I lost my peripheral vision, my color vision, and my central vision. My eyes had become extremely light sensitive; I was given the darkest glasses. This was in the middle of painting The Genetic Bill of Rights Painting Series. I had to sort my colored paints into shades of grey (which I fell into quite naturally from my formal art training); I continued to paint in color even though I could not tell you what color it was, apart from some incredibly intuitive color vibrations I would get; sometimes I could even hear the color. The signature piece of that series was painted when I had only a sliver of vision remaining in my left eye. / Because I had so little sensitive vision left, the Blind Society deemed it unreliable and trained me blindfolded. I painted the signature piece 80% blindfolded. It was a beyond trippy time for me!!! During this whole loss of vision, I had the Blind Society coming to my home to train me in skills and navigation. I was taught to use a blind cane. I learned to type and use voice recognition software. I was learning to cook by sound. One day I set out to get the mail: I was gone for two hours, had fallen into a bush, and returned with no mail in hand! I was so overwhelmed and challenged. After much painful testing, it was decided that the new drug was the cause of the blindness. I was left with a lousy choice and no guarantees from the medical community. In October 2007, I found myself a long way from home, down a road that I didn’t like nor was I sure I could reverse, go back to the fork in the road, and choose again. Morphine and the runaway bobsled to hell! So I stopped the drug! I began Chinese Tong Ren. / Miraculously, my sight returned, color too! My peripheral is still not as it was before the drug…..whose complaining?!!! Painting is like candy to me now; I was born with the gift, but now it means even more! My mind and soul are still playing catch up with all that happened. I do not understand the “taking” or the “giving back” of it all…..maybe it is for the comfort of others? I suppose the worst way to come away from such a trial would be with a “metaphorically myopic soul”? (I would like to hear your comments on my last statement, please. Write.) What we see can be such a distracting illusion to the essence of what is really there. Oddly, sometimes I miss the darkness. I remember the lessons of the darkness. As my Father would say, “I have made the circumference.” / Gratitude does not even begin to cover it!.... ~Mariam Muradian
This duck couple is obviously enjoying the peaceful feeding time on a very cold winter morning.
I used to be a big time multitasker… now I just like being a monotasker.
View of sunrise on Sanibel Island, Florida. The skyline of Fort Myers is in the background.
This is my favorite Bible quote. Hope you like it with the photo of my peony. Artwork by GOD
My five year old grandson has been visiting from out of state, and we’ve been having the best time doing the simplest things—fishing, weeding the garden, baking cookies, washing dishes, taking long walks, looking for “treasures” in the yard, be it acorns or snails or feathers. It’s kind of nice sometimes to get away from the mechanized toys, the electronic games, and the inner space of computers and technology to basic pleasures like throwing sticks into a pond. I decided to make this collage and call it “Simpler Times” in celebration of the uncomplicated lifestyle that once was and can be discovered again, even in the midst of the noise and hubbub of the modern era.
World Peace
Energy is the 4th addition now to my collection of space art. This particular peice was named Energy due to the extreme levels of light I had used, and turned down thinking that the peice had too much ‘energy’. I decided to scrap the look, but keep the name :) Always, Enjoy ! / `Dave
Who can look at this and not rejoice in the beauty of the world? I am so very happy and lucky to live where such beauty is a daily occurrence. A sense of peace comes over me when I view this and an immense joy comes when I see the photo I have taken turned out so well. I hope you enjoy this today. On Fish Lake in MN
Region Warmia, Poland
Isle of Seal Scotland evening time
This scene gave me such a peaceful feeling that I could have stopped there and stayed a while…. the early morning light just amplified the whole feeling of ease about the place… no rush, no hurry, live this moment….
Prepare for all that might come! Now also for the colorblind!
Best viewed large. Taken on an overcast day. Second Falls (Previousily known as Fern Waterfall) / Waterfall Gully / South Australia Canon 400D / 24-105 F4L 24MM<br />ND 400<br />F22 90 Seconds / Saturation and Contrast Levels Adjusted. / Shot: 24-09-2009
Finally, I’ve come up with a Tee that shows my deepest beliefs, my predicament, my joy, and my current experience. One could say its experimental, or thinking outside the box (or brain)... but it feels like thinking INSIDE the Heart… fuzzy as that Heart may seem. / Of course, it may just be sleep deprivation, as I’ve been up into the wee hours fooling around with photo-shop and RedBubble! HA!
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