"Being nothing, being a desert in oneself, one hopes through another to find
water. Being empty, poor, wretched, insufficient, devoid of interest or
importance, one hopes through another to be enriched. Through the love of
another one hopes to forget oneself. Through the beauty of another one hopes to acquire beauty. Through the family, through the nation, through the lover, through some fantastic belief, one hopes to cover this desert with flowers. And God is the ultimate lover. So one puts hooks into all these things. In this there is pain and uncertainty, and the desert seems more arid than ever before. Of course it is neither more nor less arid; it is what it was, only one has avoided looking at it while escaping through some form of attachment with its pain, and then escaping from that pain into detachment. But one remains arid and empty as before. So instead of trying to escape, either through attachment or through detachment, can we not become aware of this fact, of this deep inward poverty and inadequacy, this dull, hollow isolation? That is the only thing that matters, not attachment or detachment. Can you look at it without any sense of condemnation or evaluation? When you do, are you looking at it as an observer who looks at the observed, or without the observer?"
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Messerscmitt bf-109-g-125f
Tobor is robot backwards. There was a 1950's t.v. show by the name.
The sub-genre of hip-hop video vixens that cultivate their rears as a career asset. This is hilarious to me. This is the first in a series. Da dingding means big bum in Chinese.
Just outside my mate, Daves, house in Sandymount. Spent many nights on the wall outside his house as a youngster gazing at the stars and the towers wondering about the future.
American Psycho
Robot protector patrols the border of the desert and the city after the war.
Duvel is devil in Flemish or somesuch. It has an 8.5 alc. content. Grim reminder of the night before or tempting early start.
When I was a kid I could get ten-penny bags from a shop called Mary's which is where I took this photo outside of.
Half-finished simulacrum of my mate Hugh. Notice the mild disdain for people and life in general on his countenance. Unfortunately I just couldnt capture his essence and this piece remains a work in progress.
My daughter Kaisin(age 1) and my wife.
study of my Dad
study of my Grandad
Working from a bad photo and having never met the woman, this turned out naff. Had just met my parents in law for first time and felt like insulting the womans memory a bit by turning this bad rendition out.
An early work in oil. Came out bang on. The stacked corn is meant to represent his hard toiled life behind him. He still went out to the fields with his giant hoe at the age of 85, mind you...........giant hoe.
Inspired by a book on philosophy by Ken Wilber that I read in which there was the line " why cant I see inside my brain?" Thought it would make a great painting
Kate Bushes bushy hair. A constant source of inspiration.
Nitten is the artist pen-name taken by Miyamoto Musashi the legendary Japanese swordsman. Ryu means style...in relation to swordsmanship. This is Mifune Toshiro the famed actor who played him on the movies.
Portrait of Manuel Tormo.