The Heart of Immortality.
Introducing myself to Steemit.
After working with many traditional art modalities: drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture and photography ~ My art making is becoming more attuned now to nature, as I work with relatively small assemblages and arrangements built up from flowers, weeds and plants combined with other natural materials that I find in the local bushland or surrounding urban streets.
During the creation of my pieces ~ The process is all and incredibly magical. Thoughts of anything else are silenced.
I fall in love with the individual pieces of nature that I am using and then how the different elements greet, merge, compliment and/or contrast with each other.
Hundreds of photographs are taken at different stages, that can't possibly capture the beauty I see with my eyes or the feelings felt while adding and removing, arranging and rearranging components such as dried sticks covered with lichen, crystals and rocks, shells and seeds.
I see the images giving form to a new expression, that can be enhanced by ideas/thoughts/words that come to me, as I look at the image.
Words based on the actual image and the symbolism of the elements that have been used are manipulated, as a collage of words, into short 'poems.' Words are also based on what has been or is happening in my day/week/month/year/life, a quote I'm drawn to, a comment on a social network, a spoken word ~ Whatever I am sensitive to in my surroundings.
Sometimes the resulting 'poems' show me aspects of a piece that I couldn't see before. As do comments from other people ~ Who may see and add another layer from their own reality.
The Heart of Immortality.
Softly gaze into the depth of my heart:
I am fragile ~ Yet I am SO strong:
Delve deeper into your heart:
I will be with you there:
Forever ~ Forever.
~Ally.
Where there is love there is life. ~Mahatma Gandhi.
Ice assemblage and photograph: ©Alison Lee Cousland.
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Thanks so much Jay. Truly happy to meet you. Love your art and photography and writing ~ Such a blessing that your daughter is such an integral part of your life and art.
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Beautiful. Perfect quote at the end. Great way to end the evening.
Thanks so much Rudy. My evening is coming to an end now ~ Wonderful to read your comment (my very first at Steemit) and be reminded to absorb Gandhi's wisdom, before traveling into the land of dreams.
Welcome aboard. I love the photograph.
I recommend that you follow @kaylinart and @bridgetbunchy.
You may find this post by @dwinblood especially helpful as you branch out from the basics (the post also has a link back to a post for beginners). Learning about steemd.com was especially helpful for me because it's easier to see new responses there, and you can click back to steemit if you want to reply or vote.
Good luck. I have followed you. Thanks for following me and upvoting my posts.
Thanks so much for your warm welcome Pat. The more I see and read at Steemit, the more I realize there's so much to be learnt and experienced here. I'll certainly follow your recommendations ~ Thanks heaps. I'm thoroughly loving Steemit and it will be great travelling this journey with you.
Pat, I've just looked at some of the posts by @bridgetbunchy today and yes, she is an excellent role model to have.
Have also looked at the posts of @kaylinart and great to have another great role model to follow.