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This is representing two states in bipolar disorder; manic and mixed. Manic with its wonder, bright energy, and invincibility. Mixed with is aimless unfocused energy and general misery. --- “The manic end of is a lot of fun.” Carrie Fisher
It's about the killer music. It's about the crowd. --- "Who loves, raves." Lord Byron
A thought of what climate change will bring us. Burning forests, poisonous air, and stretching deserts…. Encoded into this image is the sound of thunder which is simply a tease. --- “The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.” D. H. Lawrence
The church has the advantage of being rooted and solid. But the clouds control the air and seek to suck up everything. Ideas and emotions. --- "The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed." C S Lewis
You know that feeling that you are being watched? That is what this is, disturbing, uneasy, and dangerous. --- "Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one." Voltaire
The moth and the butterfly (2022)
Tearing open a ball reveals two sides to life, the bright butterfly of life and the midnight moth of the end. --- "Entropy is time`s arrow." Arthur Stanley Eddington
The flower is the star of the show. Glittering on stage. --- “If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.” Marilyn Monroe
The two hands of promoting acceptance. The kindness to reach across to others and create understanding and the militant fist demanding justice. --- "We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." Carl Jung
What would it be like to be inside a pile of bubbles. A divided world full of reflections and confusion. Like a house of mirrors. --- “Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.” Carl Sandburg
From raw materials to finished product. Flowers are the final product but air, water, dirt, and sunshine are the source materials. --- "The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure." D. H. Lawrence
An organic form emerging from order or order emerging from an organic form. Maybe it’s both at the same time. --- "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time." Stephen Hawking
My definition of life is something that gets up after it gets knocked down. --- "The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat." Woodrow Wilson
Contentment comes easy for some and in their dreams they create a art of form. --- “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.” Robert Frost
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” Alexander the Great
Painting with bubbles about those whose river runs the other way. Standing alone and making your own truth live. --- “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” Albert Camus
Gates come in many forms and all of them are opportunities. Where will this one lead to? --- "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Two forms of expression one random and unpredictable and the other structured. Fun can be organized but joy is spontaneous. --- “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” Emily Dickinson
Flowers get a reputation for being divas, but really they are grinders. Growing, painting the world with their colors, and flagging down bees. --- "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." Theodore Roosevelt
When waves collide it seems that almost anything can happen. Like two people interacting at a concert the interaction is brief and complex. --- “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” Henry David Thoreau
All messages are mixed and often we hear one thing and another was intended. This grinding tension leads to conflict and misunderstanding. Sometimes to war itself. --- “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” Nelson Mandela
Transitions rule our lives. We move through situations like hopping rocks to cross a river. Some are hard some are not, but they give us the flow of time. --- "Life is a transition from one form to another. The life of this world is the material for a new form." Leo Tolstoy
Where is the boundary of privacy. At what point does a viewer cross the line into intrusion. Does the flower have a right to privacy? Does the viewer have the right to look at whatever they want?
The pose just makes me think he is frozen mid dance. So why not disco? --- "Dance like nobody's watching" Mark Twain
