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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This image---"the stone that fell from Heaven"---symbolizes the Grail and has many other meanings besides, though perhaps comprehensible only to those initiated into the Mysteries. Which I, of course, am not. Still: I know a bit about alchemical symbols and so on, so I think this image would be of use/interest to someone somewhere.
In any case, I love the look of it: the earthy tones---not colors I often use---and the "metals."
In the center is a stone in charcoal grey embossed in grey with a lotus pattern in a circle of verdigris, that very soft green of weathered copper.. The pattern is surrounded by an eight pointed star (two superimposed squares) which has all sorts of possible alchemical and occult meanings. There's an outer circle in rough bronze with details in blue lapis lazuli. This central image floats in a black void.
The whole is surrounded by a more refined border in copper, gold, lapis and cinnabar.
A stone mandala in violet, mauve, and taupe. The central image is a stone image of the sun in taupe with a somewhat rosier center. It's surrounded by a carved ring in a soft shade of peach. The colors are soft rather than bright and have a satiny sheen. The image is surrounded by rough textured "stone" in soft green and crimson, embossed with the rune for birth and rebirth.
I got a bit obsessed creating mandalas using metallic effects. It's a 20-pointed star on a black background with a red sunburst in the center and intricate details---leaves, flower petals, flames, whatever you want to see, in bronze, green, teal, purple and indigo. Brilliant and intense colors, lots of detail.
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This one---one of my favorites---is hard to describe. A 3 dimensional image of a seal: central image is a carved circle in carnelian red with a carved asterisk, surrounded by an outer ring in hot purple. This is surrounded by another ring in bronze and copper and an outer rim in blue and magenta.
A beautiful tile in platinum, soft pale violet or purple (not quite lavender, but near it) with platinum and brilliant blue details. The center is a metallic-looking rose in neon and silvery grey.
Blue metallic sun (or serrated-edged spur) surrounded by a metallic golden ring with serrated edges. The whole is surrounded by red enamelled metal with a purple stripe around it within a larger ring in bronze with a pinkish red design. Green leaves and purple designs....
I was going to call this "Light in the Tropic of Capricorn" and I wasn't even sure why at first. Then I thought "New World Ornament." Again, why? As I looked at it, I realized I was thinking of a lost hero, Steve Irwin, one of the people I've most admired. Some people say that nothing is ever lost, and I am one of them. Somewhere Steve Irwin's radiant energy shines on and on. Climate change or no climate change, the world feels colder and looks darker without him. This image doesn't express anything at all; but it's the best I could do. I'm sorry if it sounds a bit melodramatic. It's the best I could do.
ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK. Multi-dimensional, optical illusions. a silver center devolving into concentric circles in dark blue, bold, silver, and white, surrounded by a "padded" or "quilted" outer circle in shades of grey and dark blue grey, surrounded by a scalloped outer edging in white with gold details. Complex yet elegant.
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ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK. A kaleidoscope or mandala in colors evoking ancient South American tiles: teak, pale gold, deeper gold, and black. A sharply incised wheel with a central sunburst surrounded by a rim or corona in light gold and teak, with paddle-shaped rays against a darker wheel in black and dark brown with a khaki-colored rim. The background is very dark brown with details in pale silver.
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