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I have purposely manipulated these pictures of myself as opposed to enhancing them which would be the expected thing to do. As an artist i try to break all the accepted rules and boundaries both in my personal and professional life. I call all my work Savages because that is how it has appeared to me from myself...Frankly, im not 100% sure its all me...Truth is as truth says.
The piece on your right is about tearing yourself apart...Nosce Ti Ipsum is a well repeated verse of Latin that i use to remember myself each day and also to remember how thankfull i am for each day ever since i discovered my self...Retrospective visions are what you are looking at, in other words like in literature write about what you know so too in sculptre i have discovered, when the theme or subject is valid then the block takes on a life of it's own. its not the badness in you that shows, its the badness YOU dont show...Nosce Ti Ipsum...warts and all.
godspeed...
Toby Bonham told me years and years ago, that Auction Houses can spot a decent work of Art by looking at the 'hands' depicted in the piece.
If they look like hands, and not a bunch of sausages or bananas, then that is the first good sign, if they not only look like hands but are also expressive into the bargain, then the artwork in question should be thoroughly investigated, it could be a hidden or lost masterpiece?
Sir Alastair Carnagie of Fyfe on this work in progress.2008
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
Sir Walter Scott
(1771-1832)
Dawn and dusk together represent the measure of a day. When the sun rises, the moon sets. When the moon rises, the sun sets. This represents the cycle of existence, for without such alternation, the power of the universe could not be generated. When the sun reaches its zenith, it will inevitably begin its descent toward its nadir. All events -- including our own plans and activities -- follow the same pattern.
It is wisdom to know the cycles of life and where any particular circumstance that we are involved in stands on the curve. If we want to perpetuate something, we should join it to new growth to compound our progress. If we want to destroy something, we need only lead it to its extreme, for all things decline after their zenith.
All too often, people express uncertainty about where they stand in life. It's important to examine both the short-range and the long-range. If you want to go far in a decade, you have to go far each year. If you want to go far each year, you have to make sure that you do something significant each day. Use the cycles of life to establish a measure to your life, and then arrange your plans according to the units that you have chosen. Then there will be no fear of not knowing your own progress...
Catching Wild Pigs
A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in
the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed
one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and
stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told
him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting
communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his
country's government and install a new communist government.
In the midst of his story he looked at th e professor and asked a
strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The
young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a
suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs
find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are
used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place
where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they
begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.
They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you
have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in The last side. The
pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to
eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.
Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and
around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to
eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten
how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their
captivity.
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees
happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward socialism
and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as
supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies,
dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine,
drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms -- just a little at
a time.
One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch!
Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you
can do it yourself.
Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a
problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want
to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential
to your way of life then you will probably dismiss this article, but God
help you when the gate slams shut!
Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who are about to slam
the gate on America .
savage 2009...
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough
to take away everything you have" - Thomas Jefferson
