Showing posts with label portraits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portraits. Show all posts

Friday, November 5, 2010

Death of Adrian Paunescu - Moartea Poetului - RIP



30X30 cm / pastel on canvas

The Greatest Romanian Poet Adrian Paunescu died Friday morning at the "Floreasca" hospital in Bucharest following a cardiac arrest.

Cel mai mare poet al Romaniei , Adrian Paunescu a murit azi, vineri 5 noiembrie la Spitalul de Urgenta
in urma unui atac de inima.
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The Words - In Memoriam

The words, with spirals of…
…light and shade
From childlike empires
And spears thrown by
Newborn hands
Of unthought-of notions,
These words with shadows
Of nobody’s hate,
Yet hating the weakened,
They died at dawn.

The sighs of the dying,
The screams of the newborn -
As one become notions
And words of the poets…
We bow our heads
And entwine our hands
As one shade of these words
Did die at dawn…

Those words, as reborn before their birth,
Those lighted and darkened,
They bowed as the memory
Was blended with matter…

Colorblind minds.
If words had nuances,
Their colors that painted the nature
And flesh and emotions,
They flickered
At dawn as they dimmed.

The Elder

05.11.2010
 
 

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Brachypelma smithi (Mexican Red-kneed Tarantula)- Moulting

my SMITHI REDKNEE the 2nd during moulting

2 minutes after moulting

exoskeleton






Tarantulas, like all arthropods, must shed their exoskeletons to grow.
This act is called ecdysis or molting, and is a very important facet of a spider's life.
The process of molting begins long before a tarantula's carapace finally splits off and a shiny "new" spider begins sliding out of its old shell.
Just prior to ecdysis, the tarantula usually spins a sort of cradle to lie in while removing its skin.The tarantula will pump fluid pressure in its body to get the carapace to pop off first. The opisothoma or abdomen will split along its sides, and the spider will continue to slowly, almost imperceptibly, pump fluid in its limbs to ooze the old skin off its legs.
The process can take anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours.
Once freed from its shell, the tarantula will be like rubber.
After shedding, the spider will almost glisten for a while due to the fluid that was between its old skin and the new exoskeleton. Its fangs will be white and rubbery; the tarantula won't be able to eat until they harden. It will sit there, defenseless, until its new exoskeleton dries. Spiderlings may be sufficiently hardened to consume food within two days, but it may take up to a week or ten days for adults to resume eating.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Rising of The Phoenix Bird

hand made

The Phoenix Bird reborn through fire: when it gets old it will make a nest (sometimes of myrrh) and set it on fire. The phoenix will be consumed in the flames, but will be reborn out of the ashes.
"A mythical bird that never dies, the phoenix flies far ahead to the front, always scanning the landscape and distant space. It represents our capacity for vision, for collecting sensory information about our life and the events unfolding with it. The Phoenix, with its great beauty, creates intense excitement and deathless inspiration."
The Feng Shui Handbook, feng shui Master Lam Kam Chuen.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Horse Drawing - Horse Series


canvas, pastel,


When I bestride him,
I soar,
I am a hawk:
he trots the air;
the earth sings when he touches it;
the basest horn of his hoof
is more musical
than the pipe of Hermes.


~William Shakespeare, Henry V
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