Untitled - Terry Nelson 2010
Acrylic on 8 x 8 canvas.
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My apologies that the colors are so washed out - it was difficult to capture the panel with my little camera.
I don't know if I mentioned this the first time at Abbey-Roads, Terry, but those tongues of fire make me think of an anti-Pentecost. Three thousand "converts" in a single day!
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
Watchmen
And suddenly the truth came to me, as we stood there, trembling, searching, at our point of fulcrum. There were no watching eyes. The windows were as blank as they looked. The theatre was empty. It was not a theatre. They had told her it was a theatre, and she had believed them, and I had believed her. To bring us to this - not for themselves, but for us. I turned and looked at the windows, the facade, the pompous white pedimental figures. - John Fowles, The Magus
St. Sebastian
More 'about me'.
... My idea of what I am is falsified by my preoccupation about what I do. And my illusions about myself are bred by contagion from the illusions of other men. We all seek to emulate one anothers imagined greatness....If I do not know who I am, it is because I think I am the sort of person everyone around me wants me to be. I have asked myself whether I wanted to become what everybody else seems to want to become... only to realize that I do not admire what everyone else seems to admire. I have only thus begun to live after all... But it is very late. - Adapted from a quote by Thomas Merton
3 comments:
Sins of the tongue...yikes.
It's very true how you have the tongue resemble the heart: what is corrupt in the heart finds its way out.
Exactly. You got it! Thanks Paul.
+JMJ+
I don't know if I mentioned this the first time at Abbey-Roads, Terry, but those tongues of fire make me think of an anti-Pentecost. Three thousand "converts" in a single day!
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