will be calling this week…
"…oval wall clock"
• digital illustration • size – variable
Lisa Rivas © 2008
With a glint,
Kalidio is my play on the word "kaleidoscope".
This optical instrument when rotated it creates a
succession of symmetrical designs based on the interplay of light, reflection and color.
Most flowers are dynamic symmetrical shapes constantly shifting colors and patterns.
They are like happy "living-kaleidoscopes" flashing bits of color!
"Kalidio"
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10" x 10"
Lisa Rivas © 2007
Commence once more,
Daylight lengthens,
Sunshine stretches and spreads,
Buds raise their faces towards radiant rays.
Dormant seeds begin to open and emerge forth.
Newborns appear, arise, bud, come out, dawn and emerge.
For now the days have widen and swelled letting spring happen again…
“Beginning”
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10″ x 10″ – Lisa Rivas ©
Renascence…
Once “Spring” starts ‘peeking‘, there is much more than what ‘beholds’ the eye.
Most of this activity unfolds underground, below the surface, deep within.
The earth softens letting “new growth” push upward like bubbles rising.
On every branch a new sweetness lingers awaiting for the sun’s next warm touch.
Vigor awakens again, fresh and bursting forth, filling the air with “gems of life.”
“Renew”
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10″ x 10″ – Lisa Rivas ©
“But you were something more than young and sweet
And fair, – and the long year remembers you.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, RENASCENCE AND OTHER POEMS
Spatial experiences…
Mandala is a term for an organizational structure, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the Universe from the human perspective.
“An integrated structure organized around a unifying center”
LONGCHENPA
CARL JUNG said that a mandala symbolizes “a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness.”
It is “a synthesis of distinctive elements in a unified scheme representing the basic nature of existence.”
“Drop Pendant” • digital illustration – Lisa Rivas © 2008