Exposé: Week 34

Monday, August 22, 2011

Week 34

A pair of pictures showing "then and now."

my first attempt at rubber stamp carving,
2004

I'm now pretty proficient at portraits;
This is one of my beloved Mother,
carved at her passing, Sept. 2010

2 comments:

Ari C'rona said...: How fun to see the difference! I love the portrait of your dear mother, my friend.; August 22, 2011 at 9:36 AM
Kurious Jo said...: I love this on several fronts. Posting your first stamp is so neat. Liz, I'm so sorry that you lost you mother. May I ask your advice? I want to carve a stamp of my sister who passed away but haven't been able to get a line drawing. I've tried software and tracing the photo. How did you do it?; August 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM

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The Candle

"Turned inward, turned upon himself, brutally cut off from the light side of the Force, he husbanded his flame. Drew upon the lessons of every Jedi who had taught him...

He saw himself a candle. He saw himself behind a wall. Brick by brick he tried to raise it. Brick by brick it was destroyed...

But fear leads to anger, and anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. Which means the dark side wins. So he husbanded his flame. Brick by brick he built his wall. Because the alternative was surrender.

And no one ever taught him that."

~Karen Miller, Wild Space