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.
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Oh, Dr. Who. You should exist. Since you didn't, it was necessary to invent you. Can you hear us now?
A humble tribute. Flying objects with a complex diaper pattern: blue on blue on gold. The background is black with blue dots. Shiny, like metal. Retro, yet futuristic.
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ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK. This picture is a window opening onto a scene of strange disturbances. It was inspired by "The Man in the Long Black Coat" by Joan Osborne. "The window's wide open African trees/Bent over backward in a hurricane breeze."
ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK. Digital tile with a brocaded pattern in antique colors of old gold, grass green, crimson and blue in metallic threads. Pretty unusual (for me). I wanted something that would evoke the feel of my South Carolina milltown a long time ago, before even I was born. The tones are earthier and more autumnal than I usually prefer and the design more elaborate.
ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK. Two different wallpapers in stained glass which glows as if the light is coming through it. The pattern is inspired by Greek art. The colors are in the tints of the spectrum in deep jewel colors. The reference is to a beautiful four-line poem by Ezra Pound translated from Rihaku, called "The Jewel Stairs." It alludes to a wealthy and aristocratic woman waiting all night for her lover---who does not appear. You can see it printed here.
ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK. Ursula K. LeGuin is one of my favorite writers. This image is a tribute to one of her earlier books. This is another leather image, this in shades of teal gilded with gold garlands. The central image is a hexagon with radiating lines. The colors are teal, jade green, and blue.
RESOLUTION: 300 ppi.
ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK. 9-pointed starburst in soft embossed gold cloth with some very pretty talismanic symbols, surrounding a blue sunburst in jade and blue. The background is elaborately embossed and carved leather in violet and vermilion. A very complicated image.
ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK. This is the first poem I ever truly fell in love with. It was in my high school English book. Adolescence was a bad time for me; I guess it resonated in some way. I didn't understand it, but I love it---and I still do.
[quoted from Poem Hunter.com (Wallace Stevens)]
DOMINATION OF BLACK.
At night, by the fire,
The colors of the bushes
And of the fallen leaves,
Repeating themselves,
Turned in the room,
Like the leaves themselves
Turning in the wind.
Yes: but the color of the heavy hemlocks
Came striding.
And I remembered the cry of the peacocks.
The colors of their tails
Were like the leaves themselves
Turning in the wind,
In the twilight wind....
I heard them cry -- the peacocks....
Was it a cry against the twilight...
Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?...
I saw how the night came,
Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks
I felt afraid.
And I remembered the cry of the peacocks.
Wallace Stevens.
The first image is a stylized peacock's tail in which each "eye" resembles a ringed planet.
In the second image, you will see the sinister peacock if you look closely, along with the gold and teal eyes in its tail ("turning in the wind"). The hemlocks form the background.
ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK. A variation of "The Blind Assassin" previously posted---scattered rose petals with glowing green centers, scattered across a black background.
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DIGITAL ARTWORK. I did this image as a tribute to The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, one of my favorite novels. This is the first variation; I'll do the others later. Anyway: flower petals with a hard, glossy appearance, like the rim of one of those ash-trays that used to be standard household equipment, except not, because when you look down you see a gemlike neon flower encircled by neon green---"a neon buzz." Pink and green: colors I associate with those times. Run-down cafes, luxury, hands groping under the table, science fiction stories in lurid green covers...There's something tawdry, yet glorious, like neon light reflected in a window wet with rain. Or you could just see it as a strange and menacing flower.
I love that book. It's stayed with me, even more than some of her other things.
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