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March 29, 2008

Pre-Colombian Talisman

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A patterned stone in violet with a brilliant gold center, surrounded by cinnabar.  The outer rim has a pattern of pale peach-tinted scallops against a background of blue, beige, orange, and gold.  Kinda weird.

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March 10, 2008

Mobile Rainbow

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Another tribute to days of yore:  a rainbow tinted half-circle of woven ('leather') inside a grass-green hoop slides swiftly across a track of pastel rainbow tints and teal. 

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Springtime Remembered (c. 1977)

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A metallic mandala-like flower in violet, platinum, blue, red, and spring green on a charcoal colored background---with stripes in blue, red, and pink.

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Dove & Palm Cross

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In honor of Palm Sunday, a palm cross surrounded by doves (adorned with purple hearts) and four golden rings.  It's a cross seen through the mist.

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March 06, 2008

The Book of Changes: Hexagram 43--The Proclamation

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Finally we can start to get some clarity.  Once you know the facts, you can start to adapt to them.  It might take a few repetition though---reality not always being easy to conform to one's wishes. 

An octagon in violet and rose-tinted ceramic, limned with royal blue and gold, with a faint leafy border in green and blue-green.

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Victorian Paperweights

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Victorian paperweights---a luminous pale aqua flower on a darker teal background backed in black silk, framed in old gold and with a border of flowers.

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The Rites of Spring

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Pink lace with a---yes, because it's spring---satyrical theme.  Can you see what I mean?  Can you?  It's a tribute to the Horned God. Background is as black as the inside of the Great God Pan's mouth.

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February 18, 2008

Hippie Bride

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Tie-dyed fabric in mottled red, rose, blue, and indigo surrounding--and woven through-- a double golden ring. 

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Bronze Flower

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A bronze starflower with a silky texture in peach and brown against a metallic 'stucco' background in brown, gold, and bronze.

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A Map to the Maze

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A beautiful carving in stone (in royal blue, azure, emerald, and amethyst, surrounding a charcoal colored central circle.  Each circle is surrounded by metallic circles in rose gold....

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Book of Changes | Hexagram 54: The Preoccupation

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BOOK OF CHANGES.  The original hexagram represents the marriage of a concubine and her entrance into her husband's house.  I've modernized it, though there is no real equivalent.  A traditional relationship will be impaired by the spouse's or significant other's preoccupation, even if the person being cheated on never learns about it.  An open marriage might survive if the spouse or significant other is sufficiently detached and sufficiently tactful.  Either way, these are pretty things that ought to be looked at, not enjoyed.

These are gems you won't find in any store.  The 'feminine' is a brilliant intense cobalt blue with markings like rose petals, framed in blue.  The 'masculine' is an intense leafy green with intensely royal blue petals, also framed in blue.

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Book of Changes | Hexagram 16: Energetic Commitment (Two Versions)

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BOOK OF CHANGES. A simple mandala in blue and beige/platinum with a rusty orange/cinnabar/red jade.  The central image is a 10-petalled flower surrounded by a single ring in cinnabar.  The outer 10 petals are square.  You can choose from a lovely luminous button or a more two dimensional version!

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Book of Changes | Hexagram 61: Candid Heart; Honor

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BOOK OF CHANGES.  A core of integrity and essentail honor protected from without. Red and chartreuse cloisonne ring surrounded by rings in chartreuse and spring green, and an outside ring in orange.  The innermost core is a delicate 'flower' or 'starflower' in shades of rose..  The rings are held together with pewter-colored clips. 

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Gathering Petals in Winter

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HIPPIE ART:  Abstract slices of 'orange' within a ring of dark red and blue ceramic.  Background is mottled blue and green.  Colors of the 'plate' are platinum, gold, and bright orange.  There is a central 'flower' surrounded by 'petals.'

The contrasting/dissonant colors are very sixties/seventies.  Trust me:  I was there.

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February 16, 2008

Book of Changes: Hexagram 25 (The Unexpected)

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A diamond-shaped glass objet or bauble  in pure, innocent, watery aqua against a complex but subtle indigo background.  Through a center pinhole a brilliant light is shining. 

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Inscrutable

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Dark flowers (charcoal and silver) surrounded by a rose and violet colored  Oriental carving---all floating against a background of indigo and black. 

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February 12, 2008

Yellow Palms and Pyramids

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Abstract design in mixed media---pale yellow, rose, and violet---a circlet of embassed carved ceramic surrounding a "leather image" with a central "shield" with triangles embedded in it.   See if you can see patterns of palm trees and pyramids.

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September Daisy

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A beautiful flower in a circlet of violet ceramic, surrounded by ribbons striped in purple and blue.

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Chinese Butterflies

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Yellow butterflies on a "woven" background of rose, blue, and yellow. 

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February 09, 2008

Book of Changes: Hexagram 50 (The Cooking Pot)

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Gunmetal grey metal, ornamented with silver (with intimations of blue and rose).  Silver handles, a silver base, and a silver top.  The corners are ornamented with ornate fan-shaped metallic decorations. 

An auspicious hexagram, related to the notion of feeding the soul or intellect (in case you think they are distinct) of those of superior capability, provided they handle it properly. 

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Peach Blossom Fortunes

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They don't really look like the blossoms of a peach tree:  instead, they are literally peach colored "flowers" (transparent pale yellow shading into authentic peach and coral pink) "painted" onto dark bronze stones.  The background is dark brown and peach.  They have a shiny ceramic look.

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Sundancers

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You can see them dancing if you look closely.  A button in shades of purple, red, vermilion, deep apricot and peach, with a delicate green border.  Many complex patterns in one image.

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Star Orb

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This one's meant to look like a drawing.  A metallic bronze tinted star with a gold center embedded in a blue and gold bauble.  The star is decorated with bits of blue " cloisonne."  It is really more of a Christmas image that didn't get posted, but it could do for other purposes as well.

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Book of Changes: Hexagram 56 (On the Move)

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The Traveller:  Moving through the changes....always dangerous, but always on the verge of something new. 

A digital ceramic tile in purple, rose, pale green, and white convering on an off-center mandala in bronze surrounded by green and violet.

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Lily Pond

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"Ceramic" lily pads:  rose and blue in a "pond" of mottled blue and green leaves.

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Butterfly Crosses

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Two beautiful crosses made from "clay":  one multi-colored with gold, green, purple, and vermilion; the other in shades of gold and rose. 

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Hippie Buttons

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This is the sort of thing we used to love:  a red  flower with a blue center carved in "sandstone", surrounded by a white and green ring, surrounded by an INTENSELY purple background with weird little chains in it.  Silly, but bright.

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Semiramis (Homage to Colette)

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Golden and bronze metallic embroidery on a cinnabar colored fabric "rose."

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February 08, 2008