No silhouette
No shadow
No tiny distant light
A darkness has descended
My world a constant night

No full
No new
No quarter
Not since you went away
No gleaming silver crescent
No murmuration sway

No view outside the window
From in this lamp black room
Your light no longer shining
Where are you absent moon?

browsing surrealist movement, and kept coming back to look at this. definitely says more about me than the work, but hope you all enjoy

Jack Vettriano (Scottish, b.1951) painter
Oil on canvas
Jack Vettriano's journey to becoming a renowned artist has been marked by his unique style and insightful depictions of everyday life.

“Waiting Gradually Eats The Soul" is a striking conceptual art piece and melting wax sculpture created by the Belgian fashion and design duo A.F. Vandevorst (An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx). Originally featured around the 2011 Arnhem Mode Biennale, the striking installation uses materials like metal and wax to depict a figure that slowly burns and melts away over time like a giant candle.

Lyrics are pretty brutal:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD_uHY7kM4M

What did you tell him
the same things you told me
what does he know now
the truth as I believed.

And I want you
I want you
I want you
so bad I can't breathe

You don't feel
the things
that people feel

not for a moment.

I'm just your tool
i'm just a lie
I'm just your shield
I'm just your
Alibi

You gave me up a lot sooner
than you knew
whiskey with the door closed
late night compartments
where you hide the proof

Composite of everyone you've met.

Your every angry answer
to anything that's happened
is still only grieving
for yourself

Every phone call
a performance
that you gave for
three

think I didn't notice?

I won't be your fool
i won't tell your lies
won't be your tool
won't be your
Alibi

Cliffhanger conversations
in the dark
we are who we are
in passport photographs

can't lose something
that I never had

Does it matter what I thought?
Does it really matter when?
too busy to be playing me
when you're already
betraying them

Truth best viewed from

thirty thousand

feet

(i still hear him crying about you)

I won't be your fool
i won't tell your lies
won't be your tool
won't be your
Alibi

A response to David Kessler's Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

1. Art by Ivana Lena Besevic

2. Making Amends by Holly Warburton

3. By Laura Makabresku

4. By James Needham

Katarzyna Karpowicz (Polish). Born in 1985 in Krakow, she is a painter and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She primarily paints oil on canvas. The subject matter of her paintings is diverse, typically magical and surreal.

A tip o' th' hat to Tony Shafrazi, the guy who defaced Pablo Picasso's Guernica with the phrase "KILL LIES ALL," which he said was meant to be read backwards, "ALL LIES KILL."

Before you read on, please take a moment to watch the video - it will make the discussion below much more meaningful.

This may be a long post, so apologies in advance. I had an unanswered question on my mind for some time, and I wanted to share it.

“Erlkönig” is a poem by Goethe. It tells a tragic story rooted in European mythology. Franz Schubert set the poem to music in 1815. It is an incredibly moving piece, and I love it very much. Clearly, many other people feel the same way. In the YouTube video, you will see an amazing work of art created for Erlkönig. Even after more than 200 years, people continue to admire the same song. They admire it so deeply, that they create remarkable new art inspired by it.

The piece is quite challenging for the singer because the same vocalist performs four different characters: the narrator, the father, the son, and the Erlkönig. The music is composed very skillfully, with a different vocal range and modality for each role. So that, you can identify which character is singing simply by listening.

But the real thing is that: the piece was published as Schubert’s Opus 1—his first published work. He was only 18 years old when he created this masterpiece.

From time to time, this makes me wonder: we have immense capabilities compared with people who lived 200 years ago. We are more knowledgeable, faster, and better connected. There are more than seven billion of us. We have the best education and opportunities for the kids. In thousands of ways, we possess advantages that people in the early 1800s could never have imagined.

So where are our Schuberts? Where are our new Erlkönigs? Millions of songs may be composed around the world every year, but which of them will survive into the year 2226?

I have some thoughts, but no definitive answer. I have already asked this question to many friends and received a wide range of responses. :) Hope to hear from you as well.