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.

Greg Dunn

Greg Dunn, “Hippocampus II”, Japanese Sumi-e Ink Wash on Panel

Greg Dunn, who received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, explores that connection, painting images of the hippocampus, cortex, and neurons. He uses a traditional Japanese Sumi-e ink wash painting style with  modern interpretation.

He has always cultivated an interest in disciplines like meditation and Sumi-e brush painting.

“I think the natural state of the human mind is calmness. So when you are able to create a smooth line that is as close to a natural process as a human can get. You’re trying to capture the natural molecular unfolding of nature.” -Greg Dunn

Julia Rohwedder

Julia Rohwedder, Unknown Title, (The Change)

Julia Rohwedder is a graphic and animation artist.

“The change comes rapidly, quicker than thought. The wolf in man surges from the mind and into the body. The thought to action becomes action; the action becomes the force and cunning of a wild one going into a hunt. The senses heighten and explode.” – Thomas of Maidstone

 

White Tara

Artist Unknown, “White Tara”

“When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen, in that gap, in between, isn’t there a consciousness of the present moment; fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair’s breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness? Well, that is what Rigpa is! Yet it doesn’t stay in that state forever, because another thought suddenly arises, doesn’t it? This is the self-radiance of that Rigpa.

However, if you do not recognize this thought for what it really is, the very instant it arises, then it will turn into just another ordinary thought, as before. This is called the “chain of delusion,” and is the root of samsara. If you are able to recognize the true nature of the thought as soon as it arises, and leave it alone without any follow-up, then whatever thoughts arise all automatically dissolve back into the vast expanse of Rigpa and are liberated.”

Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

The Messenger of Agartha

Photographer Unknown, (The Messenger of Agartha)

One of the most famous underground cities is the city of Agartha, a legendary city that is supposed to be in the centre of the Earth, the Earth’s Core.  Central Asia is the origin of those legends and the race inhabiting this underground realm was called the Agharti. Theosophists refer to Agartha as a vast complex of caves and an underground network supposedly made by man.

Image reblogged with thanks to https://captain-donut.tumblr.com/

Erik Gonzales

Erik Gonzales, “Olympus Mons I”, 2016, Pigmented Plaster, Powdered Marble, Acrylic Emulsion, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas

Phoenix artist Erik Gonzales’s mixed media works refernces both nature and history. He incorporated various material in his art, including clay, acrylics, marble dust, and plaster.

Erik Gonzales was born in 1973 in New Mexico and was raised in Arizona, Colorado and Connecticut. In 1990 he moved back to Arizona and attended Arizona State University where he graduated with honors. Gonzales studied in Madrid in 1995 obtaining a second degree in Spanish Studies and Literature.

It is Gonzales’s Spanish heritage that continues to have a profound influence on his work creating a dichotomy of new and old. The analytical side of his work can be traced to his father whose pioneering career as a nuclear pharmacist introduced the artist to the world of science at an early age. The deep textures and bold use of color represents his mother’s Andalusian background and continues to influence his use of mystical imagery within his work.

Reblogged with many thanks to thunderstruck9:

Ryoichi Kurokawa

Ryoichi Kurokawa, “Octfalls”, One of Eight Displays in the Installation

“Octfalls” was an eight hour audiovisual installation by Ryoichi Kurokawa involving eight HD displays of waterfalls with eight channel multi sound. It was presented at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.

Ryoichi Kurokawa is a Japanese artist, born in 1978, who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Kurokawa’s works take on multiple forms such as installation works, recordings, and concert pieces. He composes the time sculpture with the field recordings and the digital generated structures, and reconstructs architecturally the audiovisual phenomenon.

In recent years, his works are shown at international festivals and museums including Tate Modern[UK], Venice Biennale[IT], Transmediale[DE], EMPAC[US], YCAM[JP] and Sonar[ES]. In 2010, he was awarded the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category.

Natural Swimming Pools

Photographers Unknown, Natural Swimming Pools

Natural swimming pools use plants or a combination of plants and sand filters to keep the water clean and clear without chemicals. They were developed in Austria and Germany in the 1980s and have since grown in popularity worldwide. They can be designed in a multitude of ways: Some look like natural ponds; others may be disguised as standard tiled pools.