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.

Riusuke Fukahori

Three Artworks/ Paintings by Riusuke Fukahori

Japanese contemporary artist riusuke fukahori made his London debut in 2012 with ‘Goldfish Salvation’, a collection of paintings and sculptures revolving around the often colourful freshwater fish. What looks to be an actual goldfish frozen in time is a careful construction of casting resin which has been layered with acrylic paint. section by section.

Fukahori builds up the fish with fleeting brushwork, resulting in an effect that resembles motion blur underneath water. cast in a variety of vessels – from large sushi basins to the hollow insides of black bamboo. The ‘living sculptures’ are a delicate balance between painting and sculpture. The artist’s meticulous attention to detail coupled with the tedious nature of the style creates highly dynamic three-dimensional pieces that capture the delicacy and animated life of the fish.

The top four images are from the painting “Muses”, an acrylic paint image embedded in casting resin in a sushi basin. The fifth and middle image is entitled “A Cup of Flower” and is an acrylic paint image with casting resin in a rice measure. The last two images are from a painting entitled “Kaguya Aokaki”. it is an acrylic paint image embedded in casting resin in a section of black bamboo.

Kevin E. Beasley: “The Doorway of Adventure”

Photographer Unknown, (The Doorway of Adventure)

“Adventure is about what we do; not what we plan, strategize or dream about. Adventure begins with “what ifs” and “why nots.” “What if I were to step out to chase that dream? Why not take the first steps and see what happens? When we step through the doorway of adventure our life is suddenly worth the living. And we experience life as it was meant to be.”
― Kevin E. Beasley, What If. . .Why Not? Through the Doors of Adventure

 

Tom Kenyon

Illustrations by Tom Kenyon, “William Walker, the Man who Saved the Winchester Cathedral”, Lithographs

Children’s book author and illustrator, and former art director, Tony Kenyon’s lithographic prints, of William Walker, are part of a series of works entitled ‘Winchester Legends’ using different graphic art techniques. Kenyon was intrigued by Walker’s legendary feat and the strange, subterranean and submerged world under the Cathedral.

William Walker MVO (1869–1918) was an English diver famous for shoring up the southern and eastern sides of Winchester Cathedral. In 1887, he began diver training at Portsmouth Dockyard. He worked through the roles of diver’s attendant and diver’s signal man, passing his medical exam and deep-water test to qualify as a deep-water diver in 1892.

In his time, William Walker was the most experienced diver of Siebe Gorman Ltd. In 1906–1911, working in water up to a depth of six metres (20 feet), he shored up Winchester Cathedral, using more than 25,000 bags of concrete, 115,000 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks.

Before his work, the cathedral had been in imminent danger of collapse as it sank slowly into the ground, which consisted of peat. To enable bricklayers to build supporting walls, the groundwater level had to be lowered. Normally, the removal of the groundwater would have caused the collapse of the building. So, to give temporary support to the foundation walls, some 235 pits were dug along the southern and eastern sides of the building, each about six metres deep. Walker went down and shored up the walls by putting concrete underneath them. He worked six hours a day—in complete darkness, because the sediment suspended in the water was impenetrable to light.

After Walker finished his work, the groundwater was pumped out and the concrete he had placed bore the foundation walls. Conventional bricklayers then were able to do their work in the usual way and restore the damaged walls.

The Dissolution of the Evolved Being

Artist Unknown, (The Dissolution of the Evolved Being), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

“People use the words “beginning” and “end” to describe the start and end of things. However, “beginning” is really the event of coming together when energy gathers, and “end” is simply the dissolution of that energy. That which came together can easily dissolve if conditions become unfavorable. That which has dissolved may come together again if circumstances are appropriate. Therefore, who is to say that there is a beginning and an end?”
― Liezi

Deer Head Mask

The Deer Head Mask Of Mexico

Fanciful headdresses were an essential component of performance costumes because they were crucial to the dancers’ perceived transformation into the personage or spirit being in whose guise they performed. In Veracruz, figurines depicting warriors and a wide variety of performers often wear full-head masks, which can be removed to reveal the person inside, such as the amazingly detailed head-mask of a deer.

Post-fire paint adorns the animal, with black-line curvilinear motifs on his long ear and bright blue-green pigment embellishing his upper lip. Large protuberances on his snout and the single horn atop his head suggest a composite zoomorph rather than a biologically accurate rendering.

The deer was an important Mesoamerican food source, and its hide was used for a variety of purposes including the wrapping of ritual bundles and as leaves (pages) for screen-fold manuscripts which contained all manner of knowledge-from history to religious mythology to astrology and astronomy. The deer also was the animal spirit form of the mother of the seminal Mexican deity Quetzalcoatl and of the wife of the maize god among the Classic Maya.