“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius
This is that famous Japanese icon, the great gateway, or “torii”, to the Itsukushima shrine on the island of Miyajima, just off the coast from Hiroshima.
Another collaboration with the fabulous photographer, Paul Louis Villani. His original photo is called Houses of the Holy
“And the Lord spake, saying, I shall have a son, and I shall model him in my image. His name shall be Jesus, and he shall have laser eyes.” / - Pwnesus 6: 15
T_SHIRT / / / FROM BUDDHA SERIES: / MEDITATION / / BUDDHA / / / OHM / / / NIRVANA / AWAKENING /
Mixed media. Originally, this began as a ball point pen sketch on piece of white sketch paper, but soon snowballed to include 3 colors of marker, 2 colors of charcoal pencil, and some judicious use of graphite. Essentially, I guess this is all about that ‘holy spirit’ ... whatever that means (to you). Dig? Original: SOLD
Young Tibetan Buddhist monks are captivated by a scene during the annual festival at Lamayuru Monastery, Ladakh, North India.
Hebrews 2:1 We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. and Hebrews 3:12 & 13 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. /
I can’t believe it’s not buddha! More tees here >>
One of my favourites songs: / IMAGINE – JOHN LENNON / Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try / No hell below us / Above us only sky / Imagine all the people / Living for today… Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion too / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace… You may say I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one / I hope someday you’ll join us / And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions / I wonder if you can / No need for greed or hunger / A brotherhood of man / Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world… You may say I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one / I hope someday you’ll join us / And the world will live as one T_SHIRT / FROM BUDDHA SERIES: / MEDITATION / BUDDHA / / / ILLUMINATION / AWAKENING / NIRVANA /
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Acrylic on textured canvas This was a commissioned painting I have recently finished. My brief was to paint a caped/hooded woman and to have the Chapel of St Catherine in the background. / / This unique building sits on a hilltop outside the village of Abbotsbury, Dorset, England. The current building is 14th-century, its history and the reason why it was built is unknown. The church is not a regular place of worship with only a handful of services each year. However people have been coming to the chapel more often in recent years. In a niche inside – candles, feathers, coins, an icon of the saint, and prayers written on scraps of paper, to God, to Jesus, to St Catherine, to nobody in particular, expressions of human need and feeling are left. They get cleared away now and then, but more come. According to legend, Catherine was a noble Roman woman from the Egyptian city of Alexandria of unusual beauty and intelligence who converted to Christianity. She protested against the worship of idols to the Emperor Maxentius, who called in 50 pagan philosophers to convince her of the error of her ways, but she ended up converting them instead. Maxentius offered to marry her but on her refusal had her beaten and imprisoned. Her torturers tried to break her on a spiked wheel, but it blew apart. Finally she was beheaded – though milk flowed from her severed neck instead of blood. Her body was carried by angels to Mount Sinai, where the monastery which bears her name still exists. During the Middle Ages she became an enormously popular saint and is often depicted in icons, paintings, statues and manuscripts. In art she often carries a book, a sword, or a martyr’s palm, as well as the wheel which is her symbol, and she’s the patron saint of those who work with wheels, scholars, unmarried women, and many other professions and conditions of people. In 1969, however, the Vatican decided to suppress her cult on the grounds of the historical unreliability of her legend.
NOT FOR SALE / It will be show at Galleries in Israel and Seville as a Limit and numered Series of only 15 copies. / Price:1500 Euros / If you are interested please send me a mail. FROM LIMITED SERIES / TEMPO / / / TOKIO WOMAN / / LOOKING FOR THE SEPIA / / / EL EQUILIBRIO DE LA MUJER FLOR / / / XXI CENTURY / / / THE SADNESS OF THE PHARAOH / / / AFRICA / DELIRIUM / / / ORGASM / CARNIVAL / THE SAXOPHONE /
Hand-drawn in Illustrator.
Just a random one i did a while back.
MJRANUM Photomanipulation
FROM WIKIPEDIA / Meditation is a mental discipline by which one attempts to get beyond the reflexive, “thinking” mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness. Meditation often involves turning attention to a single point of reference. It is recognized as a component of many religions, and has been practiced since antiquity. It is also practiced outside religious traditions. Different meditative disciplines encompass a wide range of spiritual and/or psychophysical practices which may emphasize different goals—from achievement of a higher state of consciousness, to greater focus, creativity or self-awareness, or simply a more relaxed and peaceful frame of mind. Giving this sense of relaxation and peace, meditation ultimately leads people to find peace within themselves. FROM BUDDHA SERIES: / MEDITATION / / BUDDHA / / / OHM / / / NIRVANA / ILLUMINATION /
featured in The World As We See It 09-28-2009 / featured in Globes, Sphere’s & Curves 08-09-2009 / featured in CORE 08-20-2009 / featured in Creative Cards 08-20-2009 MUSIC Bastardized Ink (Archive) All hailstorms in to die for my sins / Why am I accursed and not believing / Death to damnation both forced arrest / Enforced interrogation duress fire question / Pressure point temple brainwashed disciple / Shooting at me with a holy water pistol / I am not a heathen I’ll give you the reason / Ten commandments and ten counts of treason / They can pass judgements while I plead / Ignorance self defence dollars pounds and pence / Because we live inside the age feelings hard to gauge / I just open up the book and keep turning the page / While the all powerful throwback to miracle / Whips up the storms and pestilent swarms / Sacrifice to appease the deity / Whilst heavens open up just to seize the enemy / Wiped out civilisations / Desolate barren landscapes genocides, creation / But mad scientists wildly experiment / Drawing the conclusion down into the sediment / To the dark hour seed is sown / Now on there will be light via fire and brimstone / Walls fall down but emerge from the ground as if to start over / Rebuild the structure / True to life adventure / Even while your breathing lung puncture / Nothing out there to protect you / So they look into the skies the cries can be heard / The word is obscene unwashed and unclean / Wreaking havoc for the hell of it / Whilst digging deep and developing a taste for it / Bloodthirsty craves screams for mercy / Highly unlikely / Feel the almighty crash / Alas hope all evaporates incinerate burns out and obliterates / Keep the faith in more ways than one / Or believe me and mark my words thy will be done Praying not for the cynical quick stepping left right / Pick up as they march upon the pinnacle / Clocking up the watch stop digital / Trying to make peace while they’d rather make base and erase the place they found / Lies written all over the face wonder why / Feeling immortality fearing they’re afraid to die / Sly snakes sidewind and enter your mind / Finding temptation insecurity and frustration / Hating anger lusts after fear as half the man dies whilst shedding the tear / A clear sign that it’s way past the time / To rebuild the bleeding heart that lies broken / Well I must be mistaken but I more than feel that a chance is not taking consideration for the non believer plagued by diseased why / Nothing but an open mind is what I try and maintain / Hand on heart keep alive in dying art, pick it up dust it down make a start and bring it round / Pray to God blaspheme one can only dream / Crucify and ask why either do or die / / created with Incendia, Apophysis & PSP
Goddess Collection
Textured abstract. Oil on masonite board. “In my Father’s House, there are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.” John 14:2
\ / My idea of a holy picture, like the ones we used to have when we were little with a contemporary feel to it. St Agnes of Rome (c. 291 – c.304 virgin–martyr) is often depicted carrying a little lamb. She is the patron saint of chastity, gardeners, girls, engaged couples, rape victims, and virgins. Read more about her here in Wikepedia and more in my recent journal here the poem The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats (thanx to izzybeth for reminding me of it to include here)
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