Author: ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon

https://www.instagram.com/wolvesofgray This blog is a refugee and a survivor of the Great Tumblr Inquisition of December 17th, 2018. I am gay artist, who received training at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now, a retired high-end fine art framer living in Maryland, USA. My interests and studies in life run a wide gamut from art to history and from the scientific to the esoteric. I have been building this blog of images and texts for the last eight years. My wish is that my posts pique the interest of viewers and encourage them to experience more.

The Countdown of Eternity

Artist Unknwon, (The Countdown of Eternity), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time–for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Hans Brick: “It is Never as Simple as It Appears”

Photographer Unknown, (Man and Animal)

“For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has ended by believing that he understands them. All he means by this is that he is able to rely on certain reflex actions which he himself has implanted in them.

He will flatter himself at times on the grasp of animal psychology which has brought him the love of the dog and the purr of the cat; and on the strength of such assumptions he approaches the beasts of the jungle.

The old tag about nature being an open book is just not true. What nature offers on a first examination may appear to be simple but it is never as simple as it appears.”

—Hans Brick, Jungle, Be Gentle

Yuko Shimizu

Cover Illustrations by Yuko Shimizu for “The Unwritten” Series

Yuko Shimizu is an award winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City. Among comic fans, she is best known for her ongoing monthly covers for “The Unwritten” and her cover art for P. Craig Russell’s comic book adaptions of Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman: The Dream Hunters”, published by Vertigo / DC Comics.

Shimizu began getting editorial illustration work soon after she completed her master’s degree, at first occasional assignments from The Village Voice and the New York Times, and soon after semi-regular ones for The New Yorker  and Financial Times magazine. Now, she counts numerous well-known publications, publishing houses, and brands as clients.

Rumi: “All the Secrets of Language Will No Longer Be Secret”

Photographer Unknown, (Wooden Cage)

“I may be clapping my hands, but I don’t

belong to a crowd of clappers. Neither

this nor that, I’m not part of a group

that loves flute music or one that loves

gambling or drinking wine. Those who

live in time, descended from Adam, made

of earth and water, I’m not part of that.

Don’t listen to what I say, as though

these words came from an inside and went

to an outside. Your faces are very

beautiful, but they are wooden cages.

You had better run from me. My words

are fire. I have nothing to do with

being famous, or making grand judgments,

or feeling full of shame. I borrow

nothing. I don’t want anything from

anybody. I flow through human beings.

Love is my only companion. When union

happens, my speech goes inside toward

Shams. At that meeting all the secrets

of language will no longer be secret.”

― Rumi, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Estatic Poems

 

Alex Colville

Alex Colville, “Horse and Train”, 1954, Casein Tempera on Hardboard, 41.2 x 54.2 cm, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada

Alex Colville is a Canadian painter from the province of New Brunswick. Colville was born in Toronto, As a child Colville used to construct model planes and trains. Colville grew up around horses because his father and grandfather owned them. Horse and Train would be personal to him because of his past experience with horses and technology. In 1938, Colville began attending Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick and received his bachelor for fine arts in 1942. Colville was involved in the Second World War; he became a war artist in the Canadian military.

Colville first sketched “Horse and Train” on a sheet of paper, on March 16, 1954. The original title of the painting was “A Dark Horse against an Armoured Train.” The setting of the picture “Horse and Train” is located at Aulac just outside of Sackville in the province of New Brunswick, where the elevated tracks crosses the Tantramar Marshes.

The “Horse and Train” was inspired by the poem, “Dedication to Mary Campbell,” published in 1949 by South African writer Roy Campbell. The poem includes the lines: “Against a regiment I oppose a brain, and a dark horse against an armoured train.”