Schweizer Arts - Painting,Jewelry,Music

new jewelry - glow in the dark rings, steel rings

2012-02-18T23:53:00.000-05:00

glow in the dark ring number one

2012-02-16T02:59:00.000-05:00

steel ring with glow in the dark blue and Lapis lazuli inlay

stainless steel,welding steel,epoxy,glow in the dark powder, Lapis lazuli
size 7.75

glow in the dark ring in semidarkness

from the manufacturer of the pigments http://glowinc.com/glowinc.com

"How long does it take to get a full charge" The easy answer is that any of our products will be at their maximum charge from any light source in 20 minutes. However, that is a useless answer.

"Maximum Charge" will change depending on the light source. A black light on for seconds can cause our products to glow brighter than an incandescent bulb lit for 10 hours. Of course, the speed of charge is also determined by the light source.

A "full charge" is also a hard statement. Under black light, most pigments will get to 80% of their charge within seconds, 90% over 30 seconds, 95% over about 2 minutes, 100% in about 10 minutes.

new section on my custom made items page -

custom made glow in the dark rings

https://sites.google.com/site/thecozmicbluescollection/Welcome/custom-made-items

flares - abstract expressionistic paintings and synthesizer songs

2012-01-29T23:14:00.002-05:00

album, paintings and song in progress

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4125x3300 px, 300 dpi

you can make prints up to a size of 48x38 in (121x96 cm) from the original file.I offer ready made prints in various sizes, printed on various materials

see options, full resolution previews and buy print - click here

I also offer the original file for sale, so you can make as many prints as you want for non commercial use.original high resolution file of the painting

$ 5

new albums on CDBaby

2012-01-12T11:19:00.003-05:00

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/WolfgangSchweizer

new sound recording software

2011-12-29T13:30:00.000-05:00

I want to create descriptions or tutorials in future.

Screen Recorder Software

Resume 2011

2011-12-10T00:18:00.001-05:00

album in progress "literarisches synthett"

2011-11-27T22:58:00.001-05:00

literarisches synthett by Wolfgang Schweizer

new album on reverbnation: sound paintings

2011-11-23T23:58:00.001-05:00

http://www.reverbnation.com/store/view_item_album/artist_1260286?item_id=1297856

new "magic mirror" painting

2011-11-22T20:49:00.001-05:00

18x22 inmirrors, magnifying mirror, glitter, glass gems, acrylic, pens, embossed metals, nickel silver, copper, Turquoise, Lapis lazuli, Amber, Garnet, Acrylic gems, Shellac pieces, epoxy resin, caulk, CD parts, transparency film, holographic foil

FREE mp3 download of music album

2011-11-08T12:34:00.001-05:00

see top of this page. Click picture of album "Excerpts", and the download starts immediately!

new album "sound paintings"

2011-10-18T23:01:00.001-04:00

in progresssound paintings by Wolfgang Schweizer

new album in progress "short pieces"

2011-10-08T11:19:00.001-04:00

short pieces by Wolfgang Schweizer

album music and paintings, joint project Lyre and Synthesizer

2011-09-23T10:54:00.001-04:00

songs to paintings by Michael Levy / Wolfgang Schweizer - click to see our blog

Digital Painting "Bereshit" and song in progress

2011-09-14T21:55:00.005-04:00

Digital Painting "Bereshit"
20x16in, 2400x3000px, 150 dpi

א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

ב וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם.
2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.

original Hebrew text spoken
from
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0101.htm

Song "Bereshit"

Lyre: Michael Levy

see our joint project "music and paintings"

http://music-and-paintings.blogspot.com/

custom made rings with inlay

2011-08-27T00:36:00.000-04:00

Custom made rings with inlay-choose from a variety of options
-click image for details-scroll down on destination page

making jewelry again

2011-08-12T10:53:00.000-04:00

more info see my metalsmithing blog

new songs for the Orpheius-album in progress

2011-07-06T00:17:00.003-04:00

song to Apollo

song to Apollo by Wolfgang Schweizer

night on the fields-walking shadows-the dance of the furies

night on the fields-walking shadows-the dance of the furies by Wolfgang Schweizer

3 songs finished of album in progress "Orpheus and Eurydike"

2011-07-01T00:49:00.000-04:00

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first version of new song Orpheus

2011-06-28T00:35:00.000-04:00

Orpheus by Wolfgang Schweizer

first raw version of the song "Evening on the fields of Thrakia - Orpheus telling his story to Apollo, the animals and trees"

I want to make a small album with songs around the myth of Orpheus. Next planned song is
"Eurydike walking in the dark"

digital painting "Orpheus and Eurydike" available for download at
http://www.jpgfiles.weebly.com

new album "metamorphoses" published

2011-06-24T08:44:00.003-04:00

metamorphoses by Wolfgang Schweizer

new song and new jewelry

2011-06-22T23:43:00.000-04:00

song "Sky" for the joint project with Michael Levy (Lyre)
http://music-and-paintings.blogspot.com/

download of mp3 and digital paintings at
http://music-and-paintings.weebly.com/
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;a href="http://wolfgangschweizer.bandcamp.com/track/sky"&amp;gt;Sky by Wolfgang Schweizer&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;

new rings on my metalsmithing blog at
http://wschweizer.blogspot.com/

digital painting Orpheus and Eurydike in progress

2011-06-14T23:45:00.001-04:00

new web radio with my music (under construction)

2011-06-08T09:03:00.003-04:00

Ringtones, mp3, CDs

digital painting in progress "sky"

2011-05-20T13:53:00.001-04:00

2011-04-27T13:57:00.004-04:00

copper, silver, Spinel 5mm,Ruby 3mm, Reridot 4mm

ring size9

brooch bronze, brass, silver, nickelsilver, Swarovski crystals 3mm and 4mm, amethyst 7mm, lapis lazuli splinters, epoxy resin

size 2.5 in
pin on back

2011-04-22T11:17:00.000-04:00

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new song in progress "the crystal ship"

2011-04-19T13:01:00.005-04:00

the crystal ship-song in progress by Wolfgang Schweizer

excerpts- music and paintings

2011-04-06T13:54:00.001-04:00

new digital painting "other-worlds"

2011-03-26T05:39:00.015-04:00

Otherworlds by Michael Levy / Wolfgang Schweizer - click to see our blog

print available on

deviantart.com

You can also buy the original jpg-file in high resolution (1500x1900,96 dpi - 16x20 inches) directly from me for only 2.50 Dollars.

If you click the paypal button below, I will provide you with a download-link after checkout, and you can download the image immediately for creating as many prints as you want yourself.(Copyright for commercial use stays with Wolfgang Schweizer).

Original jpg-file "Other-Worlds"

$2.50

make sure to click "back to [emai]" after processing the payment on paypal. Then the download will start at once.

Joseph in Egypt,electronic composition

2011-03-22T17:42:00.004-04:00

this is the new song "Joseph in Egypt", almost finished. It is a co production with artist Michael Levy from the UK, who plays Lyre. He recorded a composition and sent it to me. I modified the track with synthesizer methods.
The song belongs to the unfinished acrylic painting "Joseph in Egypt".

Michael Levy`s music is available at
http://www.reverbnation.com/store/store/artist_1132710?item_type=music

His website is at
http://www.ancientlyre.com/

subtitles of the song:
1) Joseph
2) the plot/the cistern/the caravan
3) in Potiphar`s house
4) imprisoned/dreams
5) on the way

already finished digital painting:

an acrylic painting based on this is in progress

Herakles searching for the garden of the Hesperides

2011-03-04T22:49:00.002-05:00

16x20 in
canvas print of digital painting, acrylic,pens,gold flakes, fine silver, embossed colored aluminum

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Hurrian Hymn no.6

2011-02-23T13:52:00.008-05:00

new version

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older version

Hurrian Hymn no.6
after an ancient Hurrian composition (1400 BC)
performed by Michael Levy on Lyre
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy4
http://ancientlyre.com/

I made another version based on his song

acrylic, pens, epoxy, metals embossed, Swarovski crystals, glass gem, holographic foil
11x14 in, 2011

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new painting

2011-02-22T21:31:00.002-05:00

abstract landscape
acrylic, pens, epoxy, Schlagmetall (thin brass), acrylic gems, Sterling silver
over print of digital painting
8x10m in

bigger view

new digital painting Hercules searching for the garden of the Hesperides

2011-02-13T11:05:00.002-05:00

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new painting Ginnunga Gap

2011-02-10T19:24:00.000-05:00

"Ginnunga Gap"
I painted with acrylic colors on the canvas print of the digital painting "big bang".

wikipedia:
In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap ("yawning abyss") was the vast, primordial void that existed prior to the creation of the manifest universe,[1] corresponding (both in etymology and in meaning) to the Greek notion of Chaos.[2] ...An alternative etymology, linking the ginn- prefix in Ginnungagap with that found in terms with a sacral meaning, such as ginn-heilagr, ginn-regin (both referring to the gods) and ginn-runa (referring to the runes), interprets Ginnungagap as signifying a "magical (and creative) power-filled space".[3]

In the northern part of Ginnungagap lay the intense cold of Niflheim, and to the southern part lay the equally intense heat of Muspelheim. The cosmogonic process began when the effulgence of the two met in the middle of Ginnungagap.

From the Voluspa (Beginning of the Poetic Edda):

1. Hearing I ask | from the holy races,
From Heimdall's sons, | both high and low;
Thou wilt, Valfather, | that well I relate
Old tales I remember | of men long ago.
2. I remember yet | the giants of yore,
Who gave me bread | in the days gone by;
Nine worlds I knew, | the nine in the tree
With mighty roots | beneath the mold.
3. Of old was the age | when Ymir lived;
Sea nor cool waves | nor sand there were;
Earth had not been, | nor heaven above,
But a yawning gap, | and grass nowhere.
4. Then Bur's sons lifted | the level land,
Mithgarth the mighty | there they made;
The sun from the south | warmed the stones of earth,
And green was the ground | with growing leeks.
5. The sun, the sister | of the moon, from the south
Her right hand cast | over heaven's rim;
No knowledge she had | where her home should be,
The moon knew not | what might was his,
The stars knew not | where their stations were.

In Gylfaginning by Snorri Sturluson, Gylfi, the king of Sweden, receives an education in Norse mythology from Odin in the guise of three men. Gylfi learns from Odin (as Jafnhárr) that Niflheimr was the first world to be created after Muspelheim:
“
It was many ages before the earth was shaped that the Mist-World [Niflheimr] was made; and midmost within it lies the well that is called Hvergelmir, from which spring the rivers called Svöl, Gunnthrá, Fjörm, Fimbulthul, Slídr and Hríd, Sylgr and Ylgr, Víd, Leiptr; Gjöll is hard by Hel-gates."[3]
”
Odin (as Þriði) further tells Gylfi that it was when the ice from Niflheimr met the flames from Muspelheimr that creation began and Ymir was formed:
“
Just as cold arose out of Nifiheim [Niflheim], and all terrible things, so also all that looked toward Múspellheim became hot and glowing; but Ginnungagap was as mild as windless air, and when the breath of heat met the rime, so that it melted and dripped, life was quickened from the yeast-drops, by the power of that which sent the heat, and became a man's form. And that man is named Ymir, but the Rime-Giants call him Aurgelmir; [...]

digital epoxy painting El Dorado

2011-02-08T11:27:00.001-05:00

El Dorado, 8x10 in, 2011

this is the epoxy version of the digital painting.
I took a high quality print of the digital painting, put it under a layer of epoxy, varnished the epoxy and painted on it.
2 more layers of epoxy, paint and metal followed, and at the end I put stones onto it.
...
acrylic, gel and ink pens, gold flakes, brass
Swarovski crystals, Amber, Peridot, synth. Ruby

new meteorite brooch-campo del cielo meteorite

2011-02-08T10:28:00.000-05:00

brooch aluinum copper brass steel nickel silver pin silver bezels amber 4mm lapis lazuli 7mm gaqrnet 4mm lapis 3mm meteorite campo del cielo

new digital paintings

2011-02-02T01:02:00.001-05:00

El Dorado

the Odyssey

Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.

So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.

Now Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians, who are at the world's end, and lie in two halves, the one looking West and the other East. He had gone there to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first. At that moment he was thinking of Aegisthus, who had been killed by Agamemnon's son Orestes; so he said to the other gods:

"See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. Look at Aegisthus; he must needs make love to Agamemnon's wife unrighteously and then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent Mercury to warn him not to do either of these things, inasmuch as Orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home. Mercury told him this in all good will but he would not listen, and now he has paid for everything in full."

Then Minerva said, "Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, it served Aegisthus right, and so it would any one else who does as he did; but Aegisthus is neither here nor there; it is for Ulysses that my heart bleeds, when I think of his sufferings in that lonely sea-girt island, far away, poor man, from all his friends. It is an island covered with forest, in the very middle of the sea, and a goddess lives there, daughter of the magician Atlas, who looks after the bottom of the ocean, and carries the great columns that keep heaven and earth asunder. This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys. You, sir, take no heed of this, and yet when Ulysses was before Troy did he not propitiate you with many a burnt sacrifice? Why then should you keep on being so angry with him?"

And Jove said, "My child, what are you talking about? How can I forget Ulysses than whom there is no more capable man on earth, nor more liberal in his offerings to the immortal gods that live in heaven? Bear in mind, however, that Neptune is still furious with Ulysses for having blinded an eye of Polyphemus king of the Cyclopes. Polyphemus is son to Neptune by the nymph Thoosa, daughter to the sea-king Phorcys; therefore though he will not kill Ulysses outright, he torments him by preventing him from getting home. Still, let us lay our heads together and see how we can help him to return; Neptune will then be pacified, for if we are all of a mind he can hardly stand out against us."

song, painting and video "big bang"

2011-01-28T10:39:00.004-05:00


digital painting

new painting Vision

2011-01-20T13:12:00.001-05:00

Vision

acrylic,pen on canvas, 20x24 in, 2011

in memory

2011-01-18T01:29:00.010-05:00

drawings not made by myself

new acrylic painiting "vision" in progress (20x24 in, canvas)

snow

2011-01-10T12:49:00.002-05:00

I was taking a walk in the snow today. Later I uploaded some pictures to my photography blog and my fineartamerica-page. There I noticed a similarity between a photo and my painting transitions. I took a screenshot:

The Cozmic Blues Collection-new meteorite ring campo del cielo

2011-01-07T13:45:00.001-05:00

for details see metalsmithing blog (link on top of page)

The Cozmic Blues Collection-new brooch

2011-01-06T18:36:00.002-05:00

for details see my metalsmithing blog (link on top of page)

album metamorphoses - order of songs up to now

2011-01-05T03:57:00.002-05:00

album metamorphoses - new song lapis lazuli

2011-01-05T01:37:00.002-05:00

once I saw a polished piece of lapis lazuli with golden Pyrite speckles in it in a museum. I couldn`t stop looking at it, and it set me in an euphoric mood. The combination of these two colors has something transcendent in my opinion.

album metamorphoses - new song Thoughts-sparkling tunes in the dark

2011-01-04T00:22:00.001-05:00

in progress

the Cozmic Blues Collection - new necklace

2011-01-02T01:28:00.001-05:00

necklace copper, nickel silver, silver, 24K gold flakes, lapis lazuli splinters, lapis lazuli 10-7-4mm, amber 6mm, meteorite Campo del Cielo, Nantan meteorite splinters, epoxy

resume 2010

2010-12-31T02:56:00.001-05:00

the Cosmic Blues Collection - new ring with campo del cielo meteorite

2010-12-30T19:28:00.000-05:00

copper brass silver bezels lapis lazuli 7 mm 3mm meteorite campo del cielo size 6.5

wikipedia:
In 1576, the governor of a province in Northern Argentina commissioned the military to search for a huge mass of iron, which he had heard that Indians used for their weapons. The Indians claimed that the mass had fallen from the sky in a place they called Piguem Nonralta which the Spanish translated as Campo del Cielo ("Field of the Sky"). The expedition found a large mass of metal protruding out of the soil. They assumed it was an iron mine and brought back a few samples, which were described as being of unusual purity. The governor documented the expedition and deposited the report in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, but it was quickly forgotten and later reports on that area merely repeated the Indian legends. Following the legends, in 1774 don Bartolome Francisco de Maguna rediscovered the iron mass which he called el Meson de Fierro ("the Table of Iron"). Maguna thought the mass was the tip of an iron vein. The next expedition, led by Rubin de Celis in 1783, used explosives to clear the ground around the mass and found that it was probably a single stone. Celis estimated its mass as 15 tonnes and abandoned it as worthless. He himself did not believe that the stone had fallen from the sky and assumed that it had formed by a volcanic eruption. However, he sent the samples to the Royal Society of London and published his report in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.[2] Those samples were later analyzed and found to contain 90% iron and 10% nickel and assigned to a meteoritic origin.[3]
Campo del Cielo is located in Argentina
Campo del Cielo
Location of Campo del Cielo craters

Later, many iron pieces were found in the area weighing from a few milligrams to 34 tonnes. A mass of about 1 tonne known as Otumpa was located in 1803. Its 634 kg part was brought in 1813 to Buenos Aires and later donated to the British Museum. Other large fragments are summarized in the table below. The mass called el Taco was originally 3070 kg, but the largest remaining fragment weighs 1998 kg.[4]

The largest mass of 37 tonnes was located in 1969 at a depth of 5 m using a metal detector.[3] This stone, named El Chaco, is the second heaviest single-piece meteorite after the Hoba meteorite (Namibia) which weighs 60 tonnes. However, the total mass of the Campo del Cielo fragments found so far exceeds 60 tonnes, making it the heaviest meteorite ever recovered on Earth.

temporary versions- new album metamorphoses

2010-12-27T13:49:00.027-05:00

the songs of the embedded players are updated automatically as soon as I save a new version, so I don`t have to post a new blog entry each time I change something of a song.
If I finish the album, the final versions will be posted on my electronic music blog.

1) metamorphoses

2) oceans

3) cataclysm

4) dawn in the forest

5) cataclysm

6) Ice
7) Uruk-Enkidu and Shamhat

8) Dante Astray

9) Other-Worlds

Marine life from the Cambrian period. Virtually all of the modern invertebrate groups made their first definitive appearance in the early Cambrian period.

Arthropoda (trilobites, crabs, lobsters, insects), and phylum Brachiopoda (lamp shells). Along with these familiar groups came more obscure animals such as the Archaeocyatha, which are an interesting assemblage of sponge-like fossils that presumably led a quiet existence on the Cambrian seafloor filtering food particles from the water column. The Archaeocyatha became extinct by the middle Cambrian. A significant geological phenomenon associated with this great diversification of metazoan life is the enhanced record of bioturbation (the mixing of sediments by organisms seeking food and/or shelter) in rocks of Cambrian age. Prior to the Cambrian, most marine sediments were relatively undisturbed by animal activity.

Many scientists correlate the abrupt appearance of skeletons and the burst of biotic evolution in the early Cambrian with chemical changes in the world ocean, specifically an increase in the concentration of oxygen. Many scientists also point to the evolutionary first appearance of predatory lifestyles, with organisms adapting to this new ecological pressure with the construction of protective skeletons and the selection of burrowing habits. (An animal residing beneath the sediment surface is far less likely to be preyed upon.) Still others suggest that the relatively wide-open Cambrian oceans were an ideal setting for large-scale evolutionary experimentation and the origin of Phyla. Regardless of the driving mechanisms, the Cambrian explosion will forever remain one of the defining episodes in the history of life on Earth.

from

http://www.biologyreference.com/Bl-Ce/Cambrian-Explosion.html

the song is a new version of 2 songs from my album "the epic of Gilgamesh". The 2 songs are "Enkidu and Shamhat" and "Uruk".

In a dark wood, Inferno I, Dante Alighieri the divine comedy:
1 When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
2 I found myself within a shadowed forest,
3 for I had lost the path that does not stray.

4 Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was,
5 that savage forest, dense and difficult,
6 which even in recall renews my fear:

7 so bitter death is hardly more severe!
8 But to retell the good discovered there,
9 I'll also tell the other things I saw.

10 I cannot clearly say how I had entered
11 the wood; I was so full of sleep just at
12 the point where I abandoned the true path.

13 But when I'd reached the bottom of a hill
14 it rose along the boundary of the valley
15 that had harassed my heart with so much fear

16 I looked on high and saw its shoulders clothed
17 already by the rays of that same planet
18 which serves to lead men straight along all roads.

19 At this my fear was somewhat quieted;
20 for through the night of sorrow I had spent,
21 the lake within my heart felt terror present.

22 And just as he who, with exhausted breath,
23 having escaped from sea to shore, turns back
24 to watch the dangerous waters he has quit,

25 so did my spirit, still a fugitive,
26 turn back to look intently at the pass
27 that never has let any man survive.

28 I let my tired body rest awhile.
29 Moving again, I tried the lonely slope
30 my firm foot always was the one below.

31 And almost where the hillside starts to rise
32 look there!-a leopard, very quick and lithe,
33 a leopard covered with a spotted hide.

34 He did not disappear from sight, but stayed;
35 indeed, he so impeded my ascent
36 that I had often to turn back again.

37 The time was the beginning of the morning;
38 the sun was rising now in fellowship
39 with the same stars that had escorted it

40 when Divine Love first moved those things of beauty;
41 so that the hour and the gentle season
42 gave me good cause for hopefulness on seeing

43 that beast before me with his speckled skin;
44 but hope was hardly able to prevent
45 the fear I felt when I beheld a lion.

46 His head held high and ravenous with hunger
47 even the air around him seemed to shudder
48 this lion seemed to make his way against me.

49 And then a she-wolf showed herself; she seemed
50 to carry every craving in her leanness;
51 she had already brought despair to many.

52 The very sight of her so weighted me
53 with fearfulness that I abandoned hope
54 of ever climbing up that mountain slope.

55 Even as he who glories while he gains
56 will, when the time has come to tally loss,
57 lament with every thought and turn despondent,

58 so was I when I faced that restless beast
59 which, even as she stalked me, step by step
60 had thrust me back to where the sun is speechless.

61 While I retreated down to lower ground,
62 before my eyes there suddenly appeared
63 one who seemed faint because of the long silence

new blog

2010-12-23T16:04:00.000-05:00

On this blog I will post the actual work I am on. It will be in progress. All categories will be posted, painting, metalsmithing and music.

new blog

2010-12-22T08:53:00.002-05:00

this is the new blog showing my activities on one page.