Neb's Random Artstuffs

Still messing around trying to get used to OpenCanvas and my half-broken tablet (sigh...going to need a new one soon, I think). Went into a sort of relaxed/meditative zone and just went for it. This is the result.

I had this mental image of Set standing in the desert leisurely manipulating massive amounts of energy above the sand dunes, as he pondered the silly notions held by some that the old gods are dead or gone, the world of men that moved away from remembrance of him and fancied itself too mature now for him, like an angry teenager turning on a wise father. Laughter rang out and the dunes hummed low and the winds whipped the sand, and as I finished up, he boomed, "Set, Stands, Strong!" -- So the title of it is just that. Set Stands Strong.

Working on glow effects as I've never had much practice with them in digital format...and especially in this new program. I found a song Neville linked in the music thread and played it on loop for this one. Really inspired me!

I just called it "Goddess"...wasn't sure what else to call it. LOL

Here ya go.



Still needing to add a slight touch to the stars in the background. I'll upload the fixed image later. Need a break for now. :)

[Kaere]

Originally Posted by Nebulous

Really like this

Thanks, Kaere!

Next installation...in this one, the Grim Reaper takes a leisurely stroll down an empty backwater road. I had the feeling of banjos playing, old folk songs sung of the "Reaper Man Walkin'..." while the crows fly by.

Enjoy, all. :)

Felt like getting back to some poetry. Put it on a simple background with a simple layered (c) thingy (that habit is so freaking ingrained in me these days, LOL)...Enjoy.



I'm not sure if the text is hard to read. So I'm tossing out the poem in and of itself as well.

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The Song

I never claimed to be a good girl
Though the shadow often feels like home
I never claimed to be a villain
The light's just too beautiful to behold

Somewhere I dance inside it all
Burst into laughter when I fall
I'll never stop, you cannot make me
If I should die, look and you'll find me
Piercing through defiant eyes
Singing a song lost deep in time

Life screams with effort just to live
A single sound in the abyss
Trillions of heartbeats sound as one
Inside my heart the pulsing sun
Universes now collide
An unseen gap in space and time
A teardrop formed within my eye
Don't blink now, lovely one
Too late now, already gone

Somewhere I dance inside it all
Burst into laughter as I fall
I'll never stop, you cannot break me
If I should die, behind you you'll see;
Piercing through another's eyes
The song lost deep in space and time

Furious smile upon my face
Sweet waltz of infinite love and hate
Nirvana rests upon knife's edge
To have it all the madman's pledge
Foolish wise one laughs aloud
Queenly seductress giggles and bows
Languished in cerebrum, wrapped in skin
They know my name, I'm here again

Somewhere I dance inside it all
Burst into laughter if I fall
I'll never stop, you cannot shake me
If I should die, mind your surroundings
Somewhere, through defiant eyes
Sings a song lost to space and time

Gaze met briefly as I walk by
Life looks upon itself and smiles
Cerebrum, like a machine in flesh,
Conveys your confusion and distress
Infinity, enshrined beneath my skin
Reverberates deeply within
Oh lovely one, 'til again we meet
Remember this vision of all things

And so I dance inside it all
Burst into laughter when I fall
I'll never stop, no one can take me
If I should die, just keep on looking
Everywhere, through piercing eyes
Sings the song lost in space and time

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Decided to write a bit more today. Enjoy. :)

Anomaly

I'm not alive until I'm burning
I'm not afraid to be afraid
I'm not aware that gravity holds me
I'm still convinced I will fly someday

Dreamer awakens inside of the dream
Shakes the shoulders of the slumbering
Somewhere the ocean's tides are rising
As the sun's fire creeps over the horizon
Like corpses the restless ones moan in pain,
"We are the dreamers soon to awake."

Dreamer reaches to the edges of timespace
Grips the fabric and weaves its threads
Bloodstained quill writes the tale of the living
Each sentence dotted with that which is dead
Illumination and color lovingly painted
Shadow and darkness the depth of form

I'm not alive, just a travelling dream
I'll never die, only turn another page
I'm not the girl you see with your eyes
I am the Writer, she is my disguise

Seer opens her eyes in the darkness
Countless reflections come to life
A thousand faces, punched and kissed
Weeping and laughing, fiercely alive
A hundred eyes among them meet and stare
Seer beholds herself everywhere

Star reaches out with arms of flame
Burning existence lips cannot name
Sound hums inside the vacuum of space
Particle symphony, chaos arranged
Star tugs inward, breathes life into dust
Pushing out that which to dust shall return

I am a phantom, illusion of form
I am dead and forever reborn
I am an adventurer by light of morn
I am a traveller old and worn

Eternity is inside the head of a pin
Chaos dances inside the silence so still
Past, present, future in the grass at your feet
The sphynx with a grin tells a riddle to thee
Inside deathly severity the joke, the punchline
Infinity is nothing, nonexistence is alive

Simpletons raise their hands to the sky
While the gods look to their rulers on high
God of the gods heaves the saddest sigh
Spinning existence in the blink of an eye
Cold with the anguish of all beneath
Burning with the purest will to Be

I'm not alive until I am burning
I'm not afraid to be afraid
I don't believe your gravity holds me
I know that soon I will fly away

I'm not concerned with the matters before me
I'll wear the dress and play the part
I'll pour emotion, trace every moment
I'll shed this skin, take a bow and depart

I sort of tapped into my "other side" for this one, if that makes sense. I'll actually have to read over it a few times myself...I wouldn't call it channeled so much as a sort of free-form self-exploration, but nonetheless I was not 100% aware as I wrote. Thought I'd post it here since it seems to have come out with a rather spiritual flair.

Blessings to all you beautiful people.