Stillness

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

~Henry Miller

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To Canadian and American friends : Happy Thanksgiving!
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.  ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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The Night of the Alebrijes IV

"Ignis Spiritus"
Alebrije (paper mache) by Israel Alcala. [Hyperion]

(Alebrijes are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes, along with use of the term, originated with Pedro Linares. After dreaming the creatures while sick in the 1930s, he began to create what he saw in cardboard and paper mache. His work caught the attention of a gallery owner in Cuernavaca and later, the artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Linares was originally from México City, he was born June 29, 1906 in México City and never moved out of México City, he died January 25, 1992. Then in the 1980s, British Filmmaker, Judith Bronowski, arranged an itinerant demonstration workshop in U.S.A. participating Pedro Linares, Manuel Jiménez and a textil artisan Maria Sabina from Oaxaca. Although the Oaxaca valley area already had a history of carving animal and other types of figures from wood, it was at this time, when Bronowski's workshop took place when artisans from Oaxaca knew the alebrijes paper mache sculptures.)

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Sand (Clouds) Castles

Isla Mujeres (Women Island). In the background the Cancun skyline.

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Blues

The Cloisters. NYC

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Nov 16, 2012

This week's challenge:
'Constructed'.

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