Playing With Color

I took this photo yesterday afternoon while keeping cool with my feet in the stream.  The rocks, as well as the ripples on the water, made it an ideal image for cutting up and seeing what new patterns would emerge.  This time I also had a little fun playing with colors. While the photo isn't very colorful, it is filled with plenty of contrast. Adding color brings the patterns even deeper and creates some very interesting new worlds.  These really do feel like evoking a spirit from within to me.  Why not add a little color to the patterns in your own life and see your own spirit emerge even more beautifully.

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Pink Ice

I know its a little out of season but I've already covered spring, summer and autumn so why not a little wintery looking ice.    My friend Emma woke up this morning to snowflakes in Montana...so its not really that far off.  This picture was actually taken in late fall after an ice storm..  The kale had still been bright and colorful in the garden.  The worlds that came from this picture are so interesting and sparkly....

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The World Is Your Mirror

I think most of us, at least if you've been on a spiritual path for much time, have heard of this concept of the world as a mirror.  Meaning that what you see in your world around you is just a reflection of what is going on inside of you....your beliefs, identity, vibration, intentions....there are many words used that try to point us in this direction.

As I have been working on these art pieces...digitally cutting up my photos, creating mirror images that are cut up again and again, grouped and regrouped...the parallels have not been lost on me.  It feels like a microcosm of my universe.  As I step outside of myself and begin to observe I become the witness witnessing the witness and it is as if there are mirrors all around and the world is reforming itself in a million different patterns.  The enormity of this witnessing with the heart wide open is breathtaking to me. 

Lazy Summer Afternoon

You may have noticed by now that I spend a lot of my time by the side of a stream :-).  This picture was taken a couple of years ago on a lazy day in late summer.  Hubby was fishing, I was taking photos and getting my feet wet.  This was a really beautiful spot, I believe, in Fly Creek NY.  Hope you enjoy the other worlds I found here too....

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Streamside

This photo is from one of my many stream side explorations.  I used several different snippets of the photo to discover these beautiful worlds locked inside.....

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Watery Leaves

It was a cool, sunny autumn day last fall when I took this picture.  

My heart felt sore, 

wrung out and left to heal in the warmth of the sun

but my spirit was just beginning to open up to a new way of being.

Today as I played with this image the beauty of that moment seemed to flow out ...

Flowers for Mother's Day

 

A whole field of these lovely little yellow field were lighting up the dusk .

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Below are some images that came from within this field of flowers....

Old and New

I took this picture of a new spring seedling popping up right next to a leaf from last year that was quietly decomposing nearby.

Below are some of the worlds that I found inside of this one....