Desert Abstract Art — Image by kenne
Ideas Bloom Where Planted
Yet not the first,
planting ideas
generates a new beginning
forming the orientation
of the next
creating a path
for others to follow.
— kenne
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Falling Up In A Down World Leave a comment
“Connected Disconnection” — Image by kenne
Connected Disconnection
Trapped in a tailspin
with a loss for words
arms reaching out
in a world of disconnect
trying to reconnect.
Turning
reaching,
falling up
in a down world
Trapped between
the what I do
and how you react
in a world of disconnect
trying to reconnect.
Disconnected connection
over what I think
and how you feel
is this our existence?
trying to reconnect.
Still without words
the act of connecting
becomes a disconnect
is it all an illusion?
trying to reconnect.
Falling in
falling out
always looking
for the answers
trying to reconnect.
Finding the words
hanging up
on the answers
connected disconnection,
connected disconnection.
Turning
reaching,
falling up
in a down world
Connected disconnection —
disconnection.
— kenne
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Pine Leaf Milkweed Pod — Image by kenne
“Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved,
and if we try to understand them,
we should try to understand them
as we try to understand anyone —
in order to know them better,
not in order to know something else.”
— William H. Gass, Fiction and the Figures of Life
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Canyon Lands National Park Travel Scene 1 comment
Canyon Lands National Park Travel Scene (June 2014) — Image by kenne
Being in the right place at the right time
is knowing how to stay active and look around
as if it were your last day on earth.
It’s a wonderful world out there.
— kenne
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Catalina State Park Panorama by kenne
I do not know if the desert can be loved,
but it is the desert that my treasure lies hidden.
— Paulo Coelho
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I Feel A Change Coming On 1 comment
Self Portrait (October 26, 2017)
I feel a change coming on
in the world of ideas,
where life is lived.
Where is there to go
when ideas become
tingled-up in news?
News has become so
ill-fitting to my life of ideas
that life is rendered absurd.
Change will bring upon
a new purpose, adapting
to new spatial parameters.
More space in life provides
room for meaning, not
the removal of the absurd.
Life is absurd, therefore seek
not to remove the absurd,
for meaning is rooted in it.
— kenne
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In Search Of Nothingness — “What?” 1 comment
Self-Portrait
The more I learn about myself
the less I know about others.
I feel good about who I am,
questioning the good of others.
I may understand my behavior,
wondering about that of others.
This may change with a renewal
of dialogue among humans.
I accept who I have become,
I accept the responsibility for me.
I accept my humanness, but
not the organization of society.
To live in the actual world,
we develop an ability to cope.
By coping, I first came to know,
before I came to know-nothingness,
thus having an opposite for interaction,
allowing me to continue to search
sometimes not putting forth enough effort,
causing anxiety, guilt, and despair.
I am able to know by being in the moment,
I am able to know-nothingness by becoming.
The more I am able to know-nothingness
the more I am able to achieve enlightenment
by living life according to my possibilities
as I am able to actualize them.
— kenne
In the beginning was the relationship.
“What?” — Image by a Fellow Traveler
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Seeking The Tao Of Observation Leave a comment
The Photographer — Image by kenne
THE PHOTOGRAPHER
The photographer (artist)
seeks to connect what
is already connected, the
past, present, and future
in a moment of existence
while being a traveler
in other people’s reality
sharing an awareness
of the present experience.
An awareness of the moment
with the whole being, the artist
is of the experience —
the essence of existence.
The artist desires to share
the essence, but the resulting image
is about the experience, not
of the experience —
the Tao of observation.
In the process
of capturing an event
the photographer feels
and sees in the moment,
the Tao of an event —
the Tao that is projected
is outside the moment
hence is not the
essence of Tao.
— kenne
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Mt. Lemmon Trail 1 comment
Mt. Lemmon Trail — Image by kenne
Each day I try to develop myself beyond the conventional level of existence. I transcend the light of being through threads of space and time allowing me to see truth in different reflections. Most people adopt on view for the sake of security. I prefer to use all views than to maintain artificial boundaries to have one view. By utilizing all views, I can know the truth in much the same way I come to know a butterfly, a wildflower. To do otherwise is to limit oneself to what is always true.
As I shift a point of view, I have the freedom to transcend any actuality which I may encounter. By doing so, I’m able to accept the freedom and responsibility of being human and become more authentic in my expression, therefore better able to actualize my existence. By being flexible in my point of view, I’m better able to include as much of reality as possible.
— kenne
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Why! 2 comments
Self Portrait by kenne
Why!
Trying to understand why
Only to be shattered
By the emotions of others.
Still, I will stubbornly
Continue seeking answers
By connecting dots —
Dots that blow in the wind
Like the tumbleweeds
No longer grounded
Fueling fires of fear
Widening the desert
Of intellectual ignorance.
— kenne
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Sneezeweed & Ferns On Mt. Lemmon 1 comment
Sneezeweed & Ferns On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions,
that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
— Alan Watts
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Log 2 comments
Log — Computer Art by kenne
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
The classic philosophical debate on perception and observation.
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always in between 2 comments
Image by kenne
home is where I am
home is not where I am
always in between
I am an island of consciousness
I have a cosmic consciousness
always in between
life is now
death is now
always in between
existence is being
existence is becoming
always in between
I am free
I am in prison
always in between
everything is implicit
everything is explicit
always in between
nature is an artifact
nature is art
always in between
nature must be trusted
nature must be mastered
always in between
humans are good
humans are bad
always in between
a sense of law
a sense of equity
always in between
there is a natural order
there is no order in nature
always in between
life has purpose
life is purposeless
always in between
— kenne
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“Yellow Flower in Circles and Squares” — Image by kenne
Sometimes to appreciate beauty
it must be taken out of context
to capture a new perspective
based on my love of nature, sex
and life in a new consciousness
for the flower is neither
a subject nor an object
apart from being a flower.
— kenne
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Enso by kenne
The Universe lingers;
I bow my head.
— Ranzan
