Its winter! YAY!!! Thanks to PotUSA for the title inspiration!! self portrait
I Love Me as a greeting card design!! =D / In the background is the kanji “ai”, 爱 meaning love.. n_n” There are some of us, who took it upon ourselves to do things for others. to help others.. to make others happy.. but we forgot about ourselves! we forgot that we need to make ourselves happy too. we need to love ourselves too. if we don’t love ourselves, who’ll love us? i dedicate this to every one of you kind souls out there!! remember to always love yourself as well!! =D i especially thank Karin who kept reminding me that i am love-able as well. bad history and with the kind of people i’m surrounded by, i was made to believe that nobody will love me for everything that i am. am made to realise all my faults and bad points and weaknesses. made to believe am ugly and useless. having depression doesn’t help as i view myself as nothing more than a mental girl. i totally believe that it’s impossible for anyone to really love me. But Karin showed me otherwise. she made me answer and admit my pretty gd points.. and i realised.. hey!! i can be love-able?! am still trying to accept that now.. lolz.. it’s still kinda hard to accept, having been instilled those “i sux!” mindset for years… ahahahah.. XD Thank you, Karin!! GLOMPZ!!! fa: i had to force Tim to carry that signage cos he wouldn’t say the words!! stupid monster.. / Tim: it says I Love Me!! how can you love yourself!! you’re big, fat, ugly and you’re mental with me in your head!! / fa: awww.. i can love you too, can’t i~ XD / Tim: NOOOOOOOOOoooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also available as a tshirt here / / Also available as magnets , keychains and buttons and more! / Check out my T.I.M t-shirts series: /
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My name Aglaia originates from Greek Mythology. / Aglaia being one of The Three Graces and daughter of Zeus. / She was the Goddess of Brilliance. This self portrait was shot using a pentax K1000 and lLford black and white film and hand printed using high contrast filters.
/ Reflection is a self-portrait taken from photographic artist Jaeda DeWalt’s Infusion of Color series and is a part of the DeWalt Gallery collection. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / Available for sale as Laminated Prints, Cards, Matted Prints, Posters, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints and Framed Prints / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / Submitted to Images for Film for its atmospheric aesthetic. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / browse Jaeda’s photographic art by category: / dreamscapes, artistic nudes, couples, glamour, erotica, conceptual, sensual, portrait, spiritual, survivor art / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— /
Mix medium photograph of a nest with 3 eggs and the Chinese characters LOVE, TRUST DREAM FORTUNE.
I was watching the movie “The Ultimate Gift” listening to the character played by James Garner talking to his grandson when he said… ‘Learning is a gift… even if pain is your teacher”. As soon as the words had finished coming out of his mouth I honestly said out loud – YES!! Immediately I was blown away by the quote and I wrote it down and thought about its meaning for weeks. I’ve never felt so affected by a sentence before. Upon reflecting this quote I found quite confronting to realise that I spent my twenties doing everything to avoid and “run away” from my emotional pain.. Now in my 30s I’ve realised that pain was essential for me to be a more caring, less-judgemental and forgiving person. Pain seems to show us the truth in others… the truth that all people, no matter what’s on the outside… have a heart capable of breaking on the inside. It gives me great comfort that I can now view the grief of my brothers death as somewhat of a gift to me – rather than nothing but a loss FEATURED IN Prize Challenges GROUP / FEATURED IN Creative Inspirations / FEATURED IN YOU’RE ACCEPTED GROUP / FEATURED IN FIRST THINGS GROUP / FEATURED IN TYPOGRAPHY GROUP t-shirt available .
Image is a caduceus drawn in paint, enhanced in photoshop with redfield plug-in fractilius. A rod entwined by two serpents and capped with the wings of Mercury. This symbol dates back over 4,000 years, usually associated with divinities in Phoenicia and Babylonia. In Egypt and India where it became the Hindu image of the kundalini. In alchemy it stood for the integration of opoosites (mercury and sulphur). The association with medicine comes from the link between the snake and rejuvenation: a staff with a single snake is the attribute of Aesculapius, god of healing. Jung saw the caduceus as the emblem of homeopathic medicine – the snake that both poisons and cures. This piece accompanies a previous upload called Age of Aquarius as February 14, 2009, an alignment will take place at 7:25am (GMT) for 18 minutes – I invite you, in the Universal Heart, to add your own intentions for love, peace and healing and to co-create the dawning of the age of Aquarius. “The most profound spiritual traditions of ancient times perceived the manifest world, at all scales of existence as being generated and pervaded by a cosmic trinity of active, passive and neutral principles – the divine essence of the masculine, feminine and child. The Vedic sages of ancient India saw the male. active life-force energy they called the pingala and the female/passive energy they called ida weaving around and through our chakras and the child/neutral energy they called the shushumna as channeling up through them. / When these divine masculine and feminine energies are balanced and so able to fully ‘birth’ the divine child energies within us, the ancient sages saw the so-called kundalini energy that otherwise lies dormant at the base of the spine, surge through us enabling us to fully embody our divine nature. / The purpose of the sacred marriage between the divine feminine and masculine that the ancient peoples, such as those of Malta, enacted in their temples was thus not only to bring cosmic harmony and fertility to their land but within themselves. For such balance enables the energetic activation of ‘birth’ of the divine child within us and the attainment of enlightenment. / When this cosmic trinity of consciousness is harmonized and fully expressed within us, we are truly “healed” and “whole” as embodied by the universal symbol of the caduceus, as a representation of healing from earliest times. / For millennia, only the highest adepts understood and have attained such wholeness. But elders and mystics around the world are saying that now is the time, when we have evolved to a point where we are all able to awaken our inner divinity. / This is our spiritual destiny at the dawning of the age of Aquarius.” Jude Currivan, Ph.D. from greatmystery.org We are the World
FOR ADAWG CHALLENGE Digital Abstract BANG! Sudden Expansion…Massive Explosion. The point at witch it all started, that is what this challenge is all about. / Show us your interpretation of the moment it all goes BOOM! UNFORGETTABLE
self–grat·i·fi·ca·tion Listen to the pronunciation of self–gratification / Pronunciation: / \-ˌgra-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən\ / Function: / noun the act of pleasing oneself or of satisfying one’s desires ; especially : the satisfying of one’s own sexual urges
Ming (Self-Portrait) / 12” x 18” Japanese Sumi Ink / Wore this dress to last year New Year Party.
Female hands crossed over chest with royal pattern.
Over the rooftops a plane in the sky / Beat of a bass drum cars passing me by / Under a bridge dark then back into light / A river of raincoats and a forest of faces / Still for a moment then red into green / Slow shuffling shoes whisper sight unseen / Row upon row of houses return an empty stare / Let the daydream for a little while longer Ah.. yeah… / Hope Ill never wake / When Im thinking about you / (yeah) hope Ill never wake / Cos now Im thinking about you Two-minute hailstorm then melts into rain / (oh) sing me a rainbow its sunny again / Swallows overhead while the traffic snarls below / Could I (could I) keep dreaming for a little while longer Hope Ill never wake / When Im thinking about you / So that you know – I never want to wake / Cos now Im thinking about you When youre searching your soul / When youre searching for pleasure / How often, pain is all you find / But when youre coasting along and nobodys trying too hard / You can turn around and like where you are (yeah and) I hope I never wake / When Im thinking about you / And I close my eyes (dear) / Now Ill never never wake / Why should I stop thinking about you The Sundays Best viewed LARGE
Forgive me for uploading so many in this series….I know everyone’s probably over them….. / I need a certain amount for a book and maybe a calendar…... / :) / Copyright /
SP Copyright / That’s Freedom ~ John Farnham I dont know what you want from me / Or what you think a love ought to be / I want something thats open and strong / As the country this roads moving on From the mountain to the valley / From the ocean to the alley / From the highway to the river / One emotion to deliver / One heart, one way, one love / To share but not to chain / Thats freedom Its a song of the heart / A race in the wind / A light in the dark / Thats freedom I dont know why it takes so long / To remember / What the worlds doin wrong / Never wanted to shove my plan on another / Who cant understand All I want is a fast lane to / Where the road across this plain / Wont take you / I want something you understand / To make us stand proud / As nothing else can Its a song of the heart / A race in the wind / A light in the dark / Thats freedom Its a measure of trust / When love is alive / Its tender and tough / Thats freedom / Its all love is about / The opening up and letting it out / Let freedom ring
A satirical study about being in love with someone who’s in love with them self Oil on Stretched Canvas – No Airbrushing 36 X 42 inches / 92 X 1007 cm Original : / Sold / contact my Agents at Gallery 112 / .....................................................................................
Some pretty Calla Lillies
Self Gecko / 8” x 10” Acrylic on Canson paper / Music by Yanni Voices Ender Thomas
Me and my baby, Daisy. :)
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