CEE’S ODD BALL PHOTO CHALLENGE: 2016 WEEK 24


 

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CEE’S ODD BALL PHOTO CHALLENGE: 2016 WEEK 24

 

 

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge (COB) is all about those great photos that you take which really don’t seem to fit into a common category.  We’ve all taken them and like them, because we just can’t hit delete and get rid of them.  There is never a theme to this challenge, so what is an odd ball is all up for you to discover and photograph.

 

Not sure why he had the Blindfold on while playing. Maybe it helps his concentration and blocks out distractions. He did remove it after the song.

https://goo.gl/photos/WFY8GncnZU7cBjYs7

 

The Eyes Have it!!

 

 

Intriguing little Vases, Small jars, Miniture jugs & Tiny Vessels

https://goo.gl/photos/1obdKZLNMH4WE9Z59

Little Bitty Small Tiny Flasks

 

 

Sense of Purpose


 

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Purpose

No Matter What Other People Think or Say About Me, God Loves Me with a Sense of Purpose.  The words of the enemy mean nothing to me only what God has to say about me. My writing and photography are my Passions and my Purpose.  My brother Stephen is often my Muse.

 

My Raison D’être

Habakkuk 2:2-3

New King James Version (NKJV)

The Just Live by Faith

2 Then the Lord answered me and said:

“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry.

Third World – Sense of Purpose

 

 

Third World – Try Jah Love

 

 

Stephen’s Photo-Collage Art Project


Stephen’s Photo-Collage Art Project

Stephen and I have been working on this project since March. It is ongoing as Stephen can only be with me either during my vacation or when I can get extra days away from work. For safety I cut out the images and Stephen strategically places them on the canvas. We are two Artists working together, channeling our mutual sibling creativity to provide more beauty in the world. I believe Stephen’s Autism gives him special talents and abilities which he expresses in his own unique way. I don’t really care too much for labels but I suppose Stephen’s creations can be put within the category of Folk Art or Outsider Art.

One day with God’s grace, guidance and providence I would like to bring more Art projects and programs to adults with Autism. I think society and the media has such a narrow view of individuals with Autism and my goal is to show them in a different light. I’ve already developed a photography program which I hope will be accepted by agencies that provide services for developmentally disabled adults.

I feel partnerships with small local neighborhood museums and art galleries would be more than willing to showcase artworks from adult developmentally disabled artists. So far I’ve not been able to get buy-in from the organizations that serve the developmentally/intellectually disabled communities but perhaps one day God will open doors for me and Stephen.  I have many hopes, dreams and goals but it looks like they will have to wait until I retire in summer 2018. In the meantime I will continue to encouragement, support and showcase my brother Stephen’s art.

 

 

 

 

Handwriting | The Daily Post


 

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Handwriting

Many of us have heard the expression “Handwriting on the Wall.”  Here is where it may have originated.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%205

Daniel 5 New King James Version (NKJV)

In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

 

Ancient Cave Handprints

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/hands/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art/

Ambidextrous

Some people are Ambidextrous. I am not one of them. I’m right handed. Stephen is left handed.  Because of past battles with carpel tunnel syndrome and current wars with arthritis I hate to sign paperwork or documents.  As a writer I carry around a small notebook but some days I can’t even read my own handwriting!!

 

am·bi·dex·trous
ˌambēˈdekst(ə)rəs/
adjective
  1. (of a person) able to use the right and left hands equally well.
    “few of us are naturally ambidextrous”
    • (of an implement) designed to be used by left-handed and right-handed people with equal ease.

 

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30667/11-facts-about-ambidextrous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambidexterity

 

Automatic writing

Some people have or claim to have the ability to write messages from the great beyond. I’ve had my own spiritual or out of body experiences so perhaps there is some truth to this ability.  Personally I believe in approaching the spirit world with great care for both evil and good exists in these realms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing

https://ghosttalkblog.com/2013/01/08/automatic-handwriting-messages-from-beyond/

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寒山
“Kanzan” (Cold Mountain)

Artist: Inoue Yūichi (Japanese, 1916–1985)
Period: Showa period (1926–89)
Date: 1966

I am not a linguist by any stretch of the imagination but I believe handwriting encompasses not only alphabets used by many cultures but pictorial etchings including Egyptian hieroglyphics. Love Japanese, Farsi and Arabic writing also. I find character based handwriting fascinating. Calligraphy is one of my favorite art forms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwriting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphy

When I was a little girl I made up my own personal alphabet, handwriting and words. Designed a book in which my main character Mr. X had various adventures. I could not have been more than seven or eight.  Not to brag but I was creatively gifted as a child and my parents encouraged me. They were always buying me various art supplies and Mom and Dad kept me engaged with arts & crafts. As for my book I think it lies in the bottom of my trunk which is now in storage until I can once more afford my own place.

 

 

Are Self-Exploding Beings inwardly Imploding?


 

Are the self-exploding inwardly imploding?

Not knowing that the seeds of their self-destruction reside quietly inwardly already taking root. Ready to root out fabricated dogmas.
Boston Bomb crushed avian souls flying towards Heaven. Chaos rules the lands. Demonic Fairytale stories being lit up global TV screens.
Carnage Couture is all the rage!!

Socialites debate levels of thinness while screaming crying babies suckle on long dried up teats.

Life continues on in glass castles unfazed by human suffering. Walking Stepford skinny chic walking decorations immobilized shields of Oil dollars. One piece of glittering jewelry could feed and house one thousand lost humanities. Let us trip the light fantasies weaving around hunger, blight and destruction all the while knowing it will never touch our gleaming manors. Golden parachutes always on hand.

Mankind marches on towards dinosaur extinction by our own hands. WinTourist DashKardian superficial fantasies supplicate the masses fill the empty plates providing empty calories while Rome burns. Politics, religion unreasonable fears of contamination. Moon-Skitters thrive on cell division.

Say Their Names!! Never allow their memories to fade!!

Our decision whether, how, & when to escape the matrix.

Are the Self-Exploding inwardly Imploding? Truth, Compassion, Understanding and Victory shall win out over evil, wickedness and animosity!!  For the sacred has now become filled with the filth of the profane. An Outhouse disguised under the mantle of being a Holy Temple.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/nov/23/imran-qureshi-ikon-gallery-birmingham-review-hauntingly-beautiful

http://www.artspace.com/imran_qureshi

 

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