Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
This is a meditative icon, which every image is, with all art being the doorway/threshold between worlds, inviting us to behold the wonder of moving from one world to another in perceiving the wonder of the art object and its ability to transport us from world to world.
The water fountain is a Portkey, carrying us from this world to worlds beyond this world in the way that all art objects work to engage our imagination, call forth our meditative powers, and bring us to life by asking us to ponder the moment presented to us here, now, and see where it goes.
The fountain, the stones, the moon, and the viewer.
The four pillars of TRUTH.
With imagination being equal to water, rocks and moon in ushering us into the mystery--and inviting us to behold--the mystery of life and being here, now, in contemplating, experiencing, the radiance of all of it together in this time and place, and of everything that played a part in bringing us together here, now, to see, know the awe of the all, the whole, and the parts. One with the all, the whole, the parts--always and forever. World without end. Amen.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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Hi Jim , What city/state “The Meditative Icon, The Third Quarter” located that you photographed? Thanks Kitty
Hi Kitty, “The Third Quarter” is more of a painting than a photograph. I blended elements of several photograph to create an “other worldly image” that is really “not of this world.” The moon is actual. The water fountain is from the Blakeney Medical Center. The landscape is completely composed of colors merged to look like a landscape. The entire project is a “metaphor for meditation.”
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Hi Jim , What city/state “The Meditative Icon, The Third Quarter” located that you photographed? Thanks Kitty
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Hi Kitty, “The Third Quarter” is more of a painting than a photograph. I blended elements of several photograph to create an “other worldly image” that is really “not of this world.” The moon is actual. The water fountain is from the Blakeney Medical Center. The landscape is completely composed of colors merged to look like a landscape. The entire project is a “metaphor for meditation.”
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