wing dress update: ready for love

back in may 2007 i had
gone to see a nine inch nails show
it was so impacting i felt
compelled to do something myself

yes, that was the start of this blog.

until then i only had a little template-made website
hidden in webspace like a true shrinking violetta


the new material from nin at that time was called
"art is resistance" and although i understood the intent,
i had to respond to it by naming my new project what 'art' meant to me
and upon pure impulse
picked an idea of a dress with painted wings as the subject matter


how strange, in the process the process took over and it had
shown me once and again how i drag my feet in resistance to it

you see,
i once was a child feeling
free to dream, believe and to soar, and
my heart never ceased to long for
that state that was the truth of me

as i blogged on,
the magic of life took over and
the last four years spent blogging 'coincided' with
the period i dedicated to reclaim my wings


oh, i found a perfect quote along the way:

The beginning of love is at the end of resistance.
-Danielle Light


here's my new video - hope you enjoy



the beautifully emotive song is by ms. Betsy Grant, the first moment i heard it
i knew i found the perfect piece for my last video

please visit her website for more information:

betsygrantmusic.com


thank you so much for your visit!

it must be (love).

just the other morn i
stumbled out the door for last minute garbage hauling
earlybird i am not, i held out my bag near-incoherent,
catching guys by the trash truck at the last second


surprise, i was
greeted by an unexpected

one of the busy guys he was
wearing a smile, subtle and serene,
as he paused to take my bag

haven't we met before, i almost said and thought twice
(that sounded like a lousy pick up line)

and in few hours i connected synapses
aaaha, he looked like....him!

him

i caught him in a jizou* moment!!



here's a link to the ultimate know-it-all's page on jizou


i want to introduce all of you
to my best friends in the neighborhood

i met them by a nondescript shrine in the middle of a rice field

everybody knows this is nowhere

they were emitting a sense of all-inclusive acceptance, sitting by them
even the biggest losses in my life felt alright somehow
and i thought:

this must be  l o v e,  baby


i am not buddha-ing on you in any way
i only know less than minimum about the subject anyways
all i want is for you to see how simply they are sculpted
and how effectively so, the artist knew
must have known it very well, the jizou moment

see?

they survived the quakes!

just the other day

i would like it some day, somehow i become a master like this artist
flow in the jizou moment and leave behind me
a little something someone can sit by
and know that everything's cool, if only for a little while



this blog is finally wrapping up,
the next up: video!

thanks for coming by



additionally,

i've been keeping my eye since, on new jizou encounters
here are some, in case you wonder how the other ones look

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wing dress update: there's so much to sea!

it was a very hot summer, and
in mid august i fleed to the western japan
in search of a large body of saltwater to throw myself in
this girl couldn't help it

arrived by chance at tottori

and its famed sand dune

savoring ear-full of desert silence

would you like nose-full of salt water with that?

.....yes.

driving my rented nissan through corn field

it was a pleasant, comforting surprise
to find the tottori prefecture full of windmills making power
surprise, due to their adorable lack of self promotion

and,

meeting moos while on land

then headed east, along the coast line
this is the region called san-in, "in the shadow of mountains"

driving through san-in "geopark" on its winding scenic route

 yup, geopark

finding gems along the way...

one of them gems

ah..........

 

....summer!!!!

never want to leave...

the above is my personal best of the san-in gems
"yasugi", a quiet little village straight out of classic folk tales

.....wait, i think i was gonna tell you about something else....


oh. the dress.

on my last post, i was considering 2 options for the red trim around the neck
neither of them looked like this but that's what happens
when you rinse your nostrils with salt water one too many times

thank you for hanging with me

the dune at sun down