you leave your bike out for a couple days over the holidays and the
biggest December blizzard in history comes along...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Grendel Dreams of Summer
I have always enjoyed and been fascinated by the Beowulf epic
For the best translation see: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf: A New Translation (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000)
and by John Gardner’s book Grendel where the Grendel/Summer connection came from Grendel's childhood memories.
The description of the innocent childhood memories of a being that is depicted as personifying evil is intriguing. Grendel’s journey may be reflected today in the violent radicalization that so dramatically affects us all.
The image came about experimenting with some of the HDR software I have. Through serendipity, I discovered I can combine images in a way that can be aesthetically interesting and pleasing.
This is a combination of a close up of a tree and a medium wide angle of a pond.
his cold cave
talking to his mute mother
the dragon Nothing
For the best translation see: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf: A New Translation (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000)
and by John Gardner’s book Grendel where the Grendel/Summer connection came from Grendel's childhood memories.
The description of the innocent childhood memories of a being that is depicted as personifying evil is intriguing. Grendel’s journey may be reflected today in the violent radicalization that so dramatically affects us all.
The image came about experimenting with some of the HDR software I have. Through serendipity, I discovered I can combine images in a way that can be aesthetically interesting and pleasing.
This is a combination of a close up of a tree and a medium wide angle of a pond.
his cold cave
talking to his mute mother
the dragon Nothing
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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