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Oil on canvas 
Surrealism 


Multitude of ochre grey pink dots, viewed abstract up close, steps away, Madonna and child, and further steps away, the ear of an angel.

The left side has a trompe-l'oeil detail of a red cherry on a string from a folded and frayed piece of paper.

auditory murmurs (noted)

Salvador Dali, Madonna, 1958

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a fluffy cloud for a sleeper, perhaps one who slept three hours last night 

good  night

as though the place to rest

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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

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Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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bowl of walnuts in shells and silver nut cracker

walnuts and vintage cheddar, a bit

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green ivy over stones, carved and natural

ivy grotto

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Darkening clouds, winter treeline

the winds are gathering, trees tilt north

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heating/hot water system repaired, restoration

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3 images:

Light through low winter branches 
Paled light sky cloud and sea
A light path through a field Post image Post image

coffee, with fragments of night dreams

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photograph 

leaning evergreen, still strong

an interesting day- no water, no heat, appointment cancelled, calls late, wrongs and wrongs

open champagne,light the fire, snuggle the fire,eat the one ripe avocado,a call coming in

good night

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b&w photograph

imagine a field in fog that meets the sky, one sheep side-view in thoughtful pose

verdure

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A new experience of being, a renewed rootedness in the universe, a newly grasped sense of higher responsibility, a newfound inner relationship to other people and to the human community- VH

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Rooftop, old brick chimney, a seagull atop watching the world awaken.

a peaceful morning

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Photograph 
gelatine silver print


Marcel Duchamp, space writing, 1937

-lines of light inked in a glass frame- in front of his face and upper torso which faces the camera

MAN RAY

Marcel Duchamp, space writing, 1937

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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

Salman Rushdie

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double tower architecture and clouds

of late, all is surreal

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gelatin silver print

France’s first Ferris wheel

MAN RAY
La grande roue, 1921

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Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

C.G. Jung

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Sylvia Plath 
Selected Poems

(faber and faber)

mood: Sylvia, a glass of wine

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winter trees, a high stone wall in twilight

the blue between day and night

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Photograph of an architectural nature 

radial spikes around a seed pod

Excellence does not require perfection.

Henry James

Nigella damascena, Karl Blossfeldt (1932)

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Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing absurdity.

Václav Havel

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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Václav Havel

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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

Arthur Miller

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watercolour collage on paper (surrealism)

a fish flies, a large beetle confronts a man in a top hat who stands, his hands clasped behind, a surreal eye -like octopus- gazes at you from atop a block of dark wood

Conroy was an English surrealist painter, collagist, writer through mediums of paintings, collages, photographs, objects and texts.

The Waft of it All

Conroy Maddox, Untitled (1969)

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we have lost our way

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bird antiquity (19c porcelain)
In a nest, side-eye gaze

they all know

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white cloud sky 

many seagulls swarm, one foreground gull looming

word is out

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two swans by tree and bank of grasses, akin

communion

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