Oleander Blossoms — Tiled Gallery by kenne
— Leontyne Price
Yellow Cactus Blossoms — Tiled Gallery by kenne
— Paulo Coelho
Morning Walk On The Tanque Verde Wash Trail — HDR Image by kenne
— kenne
In Spite of the Drought Nature Finds Ways To Survive — Image by kenne
— kenne
Pipevine Swallowtail Abstract — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual.
Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.
If one could but recall his vision by some sort of sign. It was in this hope that the arts were invented.
Sign-posts on the way to what may be. Sign-posts toward greater knowledge.”
— Robert Henri
Clouds Breakup After Snow On The Mountains — Image by kenne
— Albert Camus
Visual Artist Malcolm Alexander (03/10/12) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“I reject the Puritanical notion that the body is ugly and must be hidden
in clothes to be acceptable. It is said that Rodin gave the body’s beauty
back to the artist. I have come to the recognition that all bodies are beautiful.
I’m only sorry that I’m part of a culture that has caused all women to be ashamed
of some part (if not all parts) of their bodies because they think it is not up to what
someone else dictates it should look like. I want to capture the creative,
sexual spirit that animates all of us. As we are all made in God’s image,
if we are ashamed of our bodies, we are ashamed of God.”
“When given a choice of elements and composition, you may think a laymen might
not know how to choose harmony and an artist would. But most people instinctively
choose the security of harmony. An artist will choose chaos so that one can bring a
new order and harmony to it. Such has been my life.”
— Malcolm Alexander
Finding the Way Through Doubtful Pass– Image by kenne
“Unfortunately I am afraid, as always, of going on. For to go on means going from here, means finding me,
losing me, vanishing and beginning again, a stranger first, then little by little the same as always, in another place,
where I shall say I have always been, of which I shall know nothing, being incapable of seeing, moving, thinking, speaking,
but of which little by little, in spite of these handicaps, I shall begin to know something, just enough for it to
turn out to be the same place as always, the same which seems made for me and does not want me,
which I seem to want and do not want, take your choice, which spews me out or swallows me up, I’ll never know,
which is perhaps merely the inside of my distant skull where once I wandered, now am fixed, lost for tininess, or
straining against the walls, with my head, my hands, my feet, my back, and ever murmuring my old stories,
my old story, as if it were the first time.”
― from The Unnamable by
Cooper’s Hawk after Sex — Image by kenne
— kenne
A ’70s Self‑Portrait (At my desk at Southern Illinois University.) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
In the early 1970s, I worked on a grant program called Career Development for Children Project (CDCP).
The project’s core theses were founded on the concept of an educational serving the community through direct
attention to individual citizens’ needs and goals. It intended to refocus the learning and related services
of public education toward the individual’s development.
— kenne
The Cowboy Loss — Image by kenne
Losing is only temporary and not all encompassing.
You must simply study it, learn from it,
and try hard not to lose the same way again.
Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.
— John Wooden
View from the Top, Near Barnum Rock On Mt. Lemmon (10/05/12) — Image by kenne
Paulo Still Life — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— kenne
(Nōtan (濃淡) is a Japanese word, meaning dark-light, there is no English language equivalent.
It embodies an ancient Eastern concept, in which all things exist as inseparable and in perfect harmony.)
View Above Hutch’s Pool In the Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
— John P. Milton
