This Is How I Meet the Ground

Photos selected from: Bamberg, DE; Prague, CZ; Heidelberg, DE; 

Time (2017)

'NOW do I die and disappear,' wouldst thou say, 'and in a moment I am nothing.  Souls are as mortal as bodies.   

But the plexus of causes returners in which I am intertwined, - it will again create me!  I myself pertain to the causes of the eternal return.  

I come again with this sun, with this earth, with this eagle, with this serpent - not to a new life, or a better life, or a similar life: 

- I come again eternally to this identical and selfsame life, in its greatest and its smallest, to teach again the eternal return of all things."

- The animals to Zarathustra.  Thus Sprak Zarathustra.  Freidrich Nietzsche.

"time"
18" x 30", oil paint on canvas, 2017

detail: pendulum bob

 inscription detail.
'in the beginning, there was darkness' 

detail

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Genesis 1:2

study sketches

Hekate - research

Wood statuette of Hekate
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 304–30 B.C.
Culture: Egyptian, Ptolemaic
Medium: Wood, Juniper
Dimensions: H.: 9 3/16 in. (23.4 cm)
Classification: Miscellaneous-Wood
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Marble statuette of triple-bodied Hekate and the three Graces

Period: Late Hellenistic

Date: 1st–2nd century A.D.

Culture: Roman

Medium: Marble

Dimensions: H. 12 in. (30.5 cm)

Classification: Stone Sculpture

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Hekate, Goddess of Darkness, from the Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans series 

(N188) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

Publisher: Issued by William S. Kimball & Company

Lithographer: Lithography by Ketterlinus Lithography Company (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Date:1889

Medium: Commercial color lithograph

Dimensions: Sheet: 2 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (7 × 3.8 cm)

Classifications: Prints, Ephemera

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Hecate, or The Night of Enitharmon's Joy

Artist: William Blake

Year: 1795

Type: Pen and ink with watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 44 cm × 58 cm (17.32 in × 22.83 in)

Source: Tate Gallery, London

META MEDITATIONS ( #_ of _ )

OBELISK

Obelisk study, G/O, 2015

Raising up the obelisk in St. Peter's Square, Rome. 1586.  drawing via Google search

Raising up the obelisk in St. Peter's Square, Rome. 1586.  drawing via Google search

Obelisk in the gardens adjacent to the Villa Medici in Rome

MYSTICISMS I

THE postulate of the self-preservative instincts we ascribe to every living being stands in remarkable contrast to the supposition that the whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.  The theoretic significance of the instincts of self-preservation, power and self-assertion, shrinks to nothing, seen in this light; they are part-instincts designed to secure the path do death peculiar to the organism and to ward off possibilities of return to the inorganic other than the immanent ones, but the enigmatic struggle of the organism to maintain itself in spite of all the world, a struggle that cannot be brought into connection with anything else, disappears.  
- Frued, Sigmund.  Beyond the Pleasure Principle.  Chapter V, p 36; C.J.M. Hubcap ,translation; (c) 2006, 1920

Space:

The Final Frontier

(2012-present)

Light in the Void, 2015

The Origin of Species (study), 2014

The Shadows of the Sun on the Landscape, 2015

ANTHROPOLOGY: SWIMMING

SWIMMING HOLE

Puglia, Italy

Used since early-Roman era (~100BC)

The ocular hole is carved through thousands of years of tidal erosion.

The water is cold, but calm.

The stone at the surface has an incredible weathered pattern.