The Flatland Digital Artwork Clip Art Gallery

Pre-Colombian Talisman

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.

Mobile Rainbow

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)

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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The Rites of Spring

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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A Clownlike Euphoria.

Digital wallpaper:   A ribbon of gold and pink with a central suburst in green.  The ribbon is surrounded by  a tie-dyed pattern in two shades of hot purple.  The ribbon is edged in red satin brocade with metallic gold details.

The Secret of the Golden Flower.

 

The way that can be told is not the final truth; but I read The Secret of the Golden Flower when I was young, back in the Seventies.  I'm not good at meditating; I always get stuck in "the land of hungry ghosts," and my chattering monkey of a mind never shuts up.  Maybe now that I'm older I'll take it up again.

The thing is, you can sense it even if you're not good at meditation.  Focus on your breathing and on the thing that's always there, off to the side.  You won't doubt after that that your body as well as your mind is connected to the eternal.

The book's still the best guide to meditation I've ever read. 

     

I Know You, Rider. (Remembering Jerry Garcia)

In honor of Jerry Garcia, a Sixties or Seventies-style hanging lamp made from strips made from leather ribbons---dark coppery brown with details in dark blue and white.  The background is a soft taupe-colored leather.  An image in Seventies-style earthtones.  Rest easy, Jerry.

The Sundial 2.

More wallpaper in caved stone, a lavender flower surrounded by blue petals, all intricately carved.  The purple flower is surrounded by gold petals with a "snake" pattern, surrounded by a green rim. 

Cherub (homage to Madeleine L'Engle).

I'm not fond of what one of my friends used to call "polyester pastels," but this image , though filled with easter-egg colors, is radiant.  It's a circle in striped gold and parchment with golden-brown details.  It opens onto another one of those "radiant voids" filled with pale yellow and green light.  The golden central circle is surrounded by feather like extensions in dark teal and white, and by an additional scalloped edging in graduated shades of peach, blush and pink against a background of pale violet and aqua.  The corners are lavender and orange.

It's intended to be a tribute to the fluffy, feathery, many-eyed "cherubim" (sic) that figured in L'Engle's "The Wind in the Door."  Though it isn't a traditional angel, I feel there is something angelic about it, in a sixties sort of way.

Glowstorm.

This one's intense.  The colors are hot orange, hot lime, yellow, and white on a background of solid purple.  It's a sunburst or star or mandala or flower---maybe some psychedelic dandelion fluff---and it really does glow.  Maybe it's more seventies than sixties; but I was there (though very young, honestly) and I remember the posters and the pictures.  Outasite!