Souls IV
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Happy Birthday to my blog, which turned five years old last week.
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I want to say thank you to my blog for all it has given me. It has brought me a circle of wonderful friends, none of whom I have met in person, but all of whom hold rooms in my heart. Rooms and rooms and rooms. It has held my artwork and my thoughts and given me a place where I can wrestle with my demons and give praise to the wild universe which makes all things and then destroys them, myself not the lone exception.
Thank you, The Dishwasher's Tears.
I am in your debt.
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And a most sincere and heartfelt thank you to my readers, who sustain me in the darkness of night and drag me blinking into the riot of daylight over and over again.
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Namaste, you Princes of New England!
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A note on this piece. The face of the girl I took from a painting entitled "The Girl Who Finds You Here" by the artist Lu Cong, which I first saw on Peter Nidsgorski's tumblr site "this isn't happiness". The original image and more of the artist's fabulous work can be found here: lucong.
I don't know if it is bad or not, this taking of things from other things and appropriating them or misappropriating them.
I think it's a good idea to be up front about it, though, and to give credit, and link back. So, that is what I will try to do.
I doubt anybody gives a shit. But if anyone out there stumbles across an image or a part of an image that they believe belongs to them, let me know and I'll take it down. Or give you credit. Or buy you an ice-cream. You can choose.
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A further note on this whole "Souls" series. They are all built on the images of Polish photographer Stephania Gurdowa (1888-1968) from a monograph entitled "The Negatives Are To Be Stored".
I do not believe that my works are any kind of improvement upon the originals.
They are just what I am compelled to do.
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A further note: I am an inveterate thief of images.
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13 Comments:
If blogger comments are working again...congratulations on longevity and consistency and entries that deserve loyal readers. Long may you run.
Greetings,
Congratulations on achieving a milestone few bloggers have reached.
This is my first visit and I am blown away by your work.
Wishing you a wonderful day,
Egmont
happy blog-day, i am damn glad you are here.
Thankful.
With gratitude.
Hail!
I salute you.
Mim
Sooooo glad you are in the world! And in my world.
Marylinn-
Thank you so much!
Egmont-
I'm glad you found your way here and happy you found something to like about it. Hope you'll make yourself at home and take a seat around the fire.
Maggie May-
Ain't you sweet. I have to say that I admire your strength and passion and I know that they will pull you through whatever you need to be pulled through.
I'm glad to have you around.
T. Clear-
You are an inspiration to me. I like your take on the world and your kindness and strength of spirit shine through all your posts and comments. Thanks for being part of the mob.
Mim-
Ha! I salute you back, your majesty! I'm so glad we've crossed paths, you really make the world a richer place for me.
Melinda-
I am glad of your company as well, and glad we are all of us still in this world.
I love that phrase. It really gets to the heart of what death means to those of us who get left behind.
I hope you'll keep coming by.
I wonder if you would like my son's image blog:
http://dreamslikethat.blogspot.com/
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