Poésie aquatique

Collaboration avec Alair

Voici le lien vers la page qu'Alair a consacré sur son site à notre collaboration photo/dessin:
http://alairmuse.free.fr/index.php/purple-cat-photographe/
Sur le site d'Alair vous pouvez retrouver d'autres dessins, ainsi que des photos et des dessins sur mon site: www.thepurplecat.fr
A bientôt
Purple Cat

Origines opus 3

More photographs on http://www.thepurplecat.fr/

Artistically Yours

Purple Cat

Happy New Year!

May that new cycle be full of joy, laughter, and love!

Que 2010 vous soit propice en tout!

XX Purple Cat

Maladjusted opus 1

Photo d'une chorégraphie de Derwinn Green intitulée "Maladjusted" qui devient le sujet d'études des crayons et pinceaux aquarellés d'Alair (retrouvez-le sur son site).

Those are sketches and a drawing by Alair inspired by one of my photographs of Derwinn Green's choregraphy entitled "Maladjusted".

S for... / Je lézarde, tu lézardes...

Délicieuse ambiguité / Delicious Ambiguity

Tonight, I was looking at a picture I took about six months ago. I should probably not admit it, but I really like it even if I am not sure why, or perhaps because I don’t know why. Anyway, that photograph makes me wonder. When I look at it, words come, different, indistinct, and ambivalent. So, I decided to surf the Internet for quotations with those key words. Then I made a selection. Quotations I liked, quotations that made me smile, but are they quotations about that photograph? Before you read them, a piece of advice: “Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.” (Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman).
Voilà donc le résultat du hasard et de l’esprit qui s’emballe :
"What an antithetical mind! -tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, SENSUALITY - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!" (Lord Byron)
"I've always felt that SEXUALITY is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labelled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food." (Michael Stipe)
"UNCERTAINTY and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." (R. I. Fitzhenry)"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious AMBIGUITY." (Gilda Radner)
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal SEDUCTIVENESS of life." (Jean Giraudoux)
"When God created two SEXEs, he may have been overdoing it." (Charles M. Smith)
"The three SEXEs are men, women, and professors." (J. E. Spingarn)
"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new FRONTIERs." (Arthur Koestler)
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a MASK, and he will tell you the truth." (Oscar Wilde)
"Imagination and fiction MAKE UP more than three quarters of our life." (Simone Weil)"Once I MAKE UP my mind, I'm full of indecision." (Oscar Levant)
What about you?
XX Purple Cat

The Ugly Duckling / Le Vilain petit canard : Les coins-coins de La Rochelle Opus 1

Pour le droit à la DIFFERENCE!

Spring!

A New beginning.
Even the sky seems to point out a new direction.

Enjoy! and...

"May the road rise to meet you / May the wind be always at your back / May the sun shine warn upon your face / The rain fall soft upon your fields / And until we meet again / May God hold you in the hollow of his hand" (Irish Blessing)

abstraction au collant noir

L'homme marche vers le solstice d'hiver et te rend en passant un hommage, ma douce maman.

Tu disais être née le 21 décembre pour y faire face. Aujourd'hui, nous sommes le 17, ce nombre que tu aimais tant.

"Et que le voyageur poursuive son chemin" (Lyne Froissart)

To my late mother who wrote the sentence above. More to see in the gallery called "Abstractions aux collants noirs" on my website: http://www.thepurplecat.fr/

Thanks for unexpected beauty and discoveries

Dublin, a basin, a surprise... A Stone nymph in the castle garden

Nymphe de pierre dans les jardins du château de Dublin

Open your eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! You celebrate it or you don't, it's part of your tradition or absolutely not, you can't avoid to think about how it started nicely with the Native Americans and about how it ended badly... whatever! I have all these thoughts but whatever!
I think that it is nice to have a day to be positive, together, thankful for everything good and not stressed out, tired, grumpy, etc.
I wish people wouldn't need a special day to be thanksful for the moon, the sun, flowers, beautiful colours, friendship, love, fairies and everything that makes life extraordinary. But, now and then, we turn into Grumpy and forget about the extraordinary. So yeah! Happy Thanksgiving! Happy special day full of positive thoughts!
XX

For you, a picture I hope you will enjoy: Hope and The Jasmin Flower Tea:

To Paul Durcan / Mosaïque Durcanienne

I tried to capture Paul Durcan's Dublin, at least, a bit of it, following his words. A great adventure!

Germinations de sorcières

Après la magie d'Halloween, veille de l'ancien nouvel an, un nouveau cycle commence. Memento mori et nouvelle naissance...

Comme l'écrivait le poète W.H. AUDEN:

"Now the leaves are falling fast

Nurses' flowers will not last

Nurses to their graves are gone

But the prams go rolling on"

A méditer...

Plus de citations, de pensées et de photos sur http://www.thepurplecat.fr/

Un baiser à faire pâlir le ciel / A Kiss which Makes the Sky Fade

Dublin, août 2008. Plus à voir sur http://www.thepurplecat.fr/

L'envol

Voici mon modèle actuel, le danseur Derwinn Green (http://www.derwinngreen.com/)
Vous pouvez retrouver plus de photos sur http://www.thepurplecat.fr/

Univers création

Nalair vu par Purple Cat
Nalair est aussi un blogspotter: http://nalair.blogspot.com/
Vous pouvez aussi le retrouver sur http://www.nalair.fr/