Night in the Forest of the Blue Gates

This one needs a scary new age soundtrack.

I really don't know where this piece came from.  It started as something completely different and turned into this strange dark forest very suddenly.  I'm still not sure what to make of it.  Such a strange vibe.  I know that the period that this came from was very intense and uncomfortable for me.

It feels like underneath.  Some contained underworld place that is difficult to escape.  I definitely don't want to get too close to those columns, they look hungry.

As well as the scary new age soundtrack, I also hear the hum of a dying fluorescent bulb here.  I suspect that light in the Forest of the Blue Gates flickers.  As soundtracks go - perhaps Steve Roach: Dynamic Stillness.

{Digital images manipulated in Photoshop}

Passage of the Dark Daughter

I begin to understand.

I have found my way.

Without words,

Without reason,

I went blindly inside,

Fingertips feeling through the unending night

And found safe passage to the sky.

I found my way.

Not of this world and all its answers,

Not of sight or of numbers or of phones,

But of the ocean inside my veins.

The pressure of my pain and fear

Burst me like ripe fruit

And open,

My glistening seeds fell into me.

I look back at myself in wonder,

I found my way!

There is nothing you can give me

There is nothing I can hold to.

The way is all that matters now.

I thought it lost to time and torture,

But I followed the waters,

Oh blessed patient waters.

I found my way!

I slip beneath my waves

And into my indigo depths.

I undulate like my heart

And feel only the within.

The endless within.

The quiet dark part of me speaks.

{Digital images manipulated with Photoshop}

Update 05-12-12
Recommended Listening:

Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke
The Circulation of Shadows
from Duality

Photoplays

Last of the new photoplays...

These are a bit MORE manipulated than the others.

{Digital Photos manipulated with Adobe Photoshop.}

New Photoplays: Strangeness of the Everyday

Here are some new photo plays.

What happens when I'm left alone in the house with the camera. LOL...

{All Images taken with a Digicam and manipulated in Adobe Photoshop.}

Dark Engine Mandalas

More again...these are actually kind of going in reverse order.

Hmmmm...I suppose the way the blog scrolls that'll be better for the visual. :-)

{Digital Images manipulated in Adobe Photoshop.}

Spirit Engine Mandalas: The hole in my floor

I apologize for how redundant all this is about to become,
but I want all these in the same place so they can be seen together.
{Digital images manipulated with Adobe Photoshop.}

The Window and The Spirit Cage

Playin' in Photoshop again. :-P

{Photoshop Image}

SHE

The Beauty of the properly xeroxed image. (and the Evil...)

{Xeroxed images, scanned and combined in Adobe Photoshop}.

UPDATE 091014:  A permutation of this piece now available on a tshirt design and other cool paraphernalia at my Neatoshop!  Drop by and check it out!

The Ghost

I don't have many words for this one. It was difficult to draw. {Graphite, White Prismacolour on grey drawing paper}