All images are mine unless otherwise noted. All poetry and text are mine unless noted.
All abstracts and painterly images are derived from photographs.
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The first nine images in this post cover a loose thread, the road to abstraction and back. I have been blessed to realize in my journey through the process of creating photographs that my interests lie in many varied directions without landing in one particular style or genre. Whatever is in front of these eyes is food for interpretation by the senses of the heart and worthy of attention, becoming for me the ongoing process of allowing creativity free reign.
It has been said that creativity involves risk taking without fear of criticism or a lack of self-worth holding us back. In the process of releasing our creative nature there is no risk not worth chancing as movement toward growing to wholeness becomes second nature.
Let me know what you think.
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Traveling inward storms are encountered
Tossing the senses here, there and everywhere.
"Turn back to a safer harbor,
where the status quo of life will keep you happy!"
Spoke one voice that I will ignore.
Another voice speaks the great truth,
"Follow your passion and forge ahead
on the road to inner freedom where you will meet yourself -
where you will begin to know your Self for the first of many times."
Falling into an open heart able to receive the Gift,
Becomes a rising to a new surface
As breakthroughs and insights are experienced, and accepted
Emeralds shining in all the heart's rooms
As the trance of being in worldly prisons is lifted
Revealing bright new skies ..... enlightenment.....Clarity.
Internal vision has its own interpretation
of the things in front of us,
The journey to our True Self
Can be quiet and peaceful
even as we find ourself in a strange country.
The works of artists can be presented with a clarity
that moves us to frame what they have created.
Not to hold them in place for all time,
but to allow the borders of gold to focus our attention -
Frames are an invitation to enter anew
into realms of beauty while teaching us the routes
that take us away from a life lived
almost entirely outside of our self.
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- Expectations -
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Some Humor:
Peace,
Bill Lagerstrom
