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She taught me to see and to love color. Thanks, Mom!
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Pink clay: a dozen blue tulips surround a central mandala in blue and indigo. The background is pink and pale yellow. In the corners there are touches of green, yellow, and red.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sunbursts on rather battered golden disks. The suns are in bronze, pale orange, and teal, surrounded by rings of magenta and teal. They are floating on a background of indigo and violet.
Pretty much what it says: pewter "buttons" with brass rims decorated with blue, pale green, and vermilion "confetti." The background is black spotted with green. Definitely a retro look, like something you might unearth from your late great aunt's junk jewelry drawer or sewing basket. The rather somber background undercuts any hint of frivolity (and the dark pewter color of the "buttons" do their part as well. They have the enigmatic look of objects whose function is known but no longer relevant and which cry out to be repurposed. It seems somehow wrong to throw them away.
A tribute to one great classic of the Sixties and to all the things that seemed like a good idea at the time. Purple stripes on a brilliant apricot background with a silken surface bisected by a row of little sandal shaped purple thingies.
The watery abyss is dangerous, but danger is the route to opportunity. You just have to step carefully to keep from falling in. This means slow progress toward the objective.
Hard to describe this image. Lots of shiny blue and gold, the top is a haze of rose color.
Presumably you can tell which one is which. A pretty image in ceramic, glass, and gold: a rim of rose, violet, royal blue, cobalt, gold and gold surrounding a glass center, blue with a black octagonal "iris" surrounded by a gold rim. "Approach" is off center, revealing "corridors" in gold, royal blue and black, and a background of violet and purple stripes. "Contemplation: is centered, surrounded by a design in the same pattern as the rim of the wheel.
Folded parchment: the top is embossed with an abstract pattern in orange with a touch of green; the lower one, with a barely perceptible pattern of trees and mountains with a scalloped edge.
This inauspicious hexagram nevertheless signifies a trend that we've all sometimes faced: the period when the earth underneath your feet cracks and you feel the ground shifting underneath them. The secret of survival, which the I Ching is there to help you achieve, is to remember that even when things do fall apart, they eventually settle down again, though generally in a new configuration. The secret is to be able to brace yourself and maintain your dignity/aplomb/integrity as well as you can till you find your footing again. Bad periods, like every other sort, eventually pass. To avoid sinking, you've got to accept where you are and work to keep your balance.
A hard lesson for us westerners----but an important one.
A ring of carved flowers (green, pink, blue) set in heavy silver or pewter, on a solid black background. There is a central flower in blue with a pink center. Primitive, but exuberant.
A green kaleidoscope: yellow green, pale green, forest green. The background is a hazy scene of forest and flowers, mottled blue, orange, and green. This is the forest primeval...
An experiment with a glass mosaic effect. I think it works! A tile decorated with circles. Each circle is filled with flowers surrounding a circle of green and white leaves. . Colors are rose, violet, green, yellow, blue grey, and old rose. It really does have an antique appearance.
Purple and gold, with touches of rose. Surrounded by the eye within the pyramid. Many arcane symbols can be identified here, but the message is joy. Joy written in stone.
A starburst carved in stone seen from behind a "screen," creating a striped effect. Colors are NEON purple, violet, and lavender, with just a nuance of blue encircling the central part of the image. The "frame" is transparent purple glass. Sort of a departure for me.
The title is a reference to a poem by Wallace Stevens, which I have quoted elsewhere (The Domination of Black)
