"Modern Myth and Mythology" The Series
Unique Encaustic Mixed Media, The Art Of ©Ben Fink.
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"Saint Michael's Day on Earth" 2023
Ben Fink
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"The Sacred Waters: A Tale of Love and Healing"
Ben Fink
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"Mrko Vlenzula: The Divine Offering"
Ben Fink
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"Eternal Yearning: The Half-God's Pursuit" 2023
Ben Fink
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The Eternity Loop: The Legend of the Soulmates 2023
Ben Fink
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Nude Study 2023
Ben Fink
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!["The Face in the Lake: A Tale of Magic from Magusia"]()
"The Face in the Lake: A Tale of Magic from Magusia"
Ben Fink
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![“The Minotaur’s Secret” Art and Text by Ben Fink 2023]( "In the depths of his labyrinth, the Minotaur, Asterius lived a solitary life. Despite the monstrous tales about him, he was a gentle being who longed for companionship. He yearned for someone to share his love and tenderness with but was always alone. His mother, Pasiphae, knew of his secret desires for men, and to appease him, she sent many maidens into the labyrinth. But they all met a gruesome fate at the hands of Asterius. Until one day, she sent Iosephos - a ruggedly handsome man who stole Asterius' heart from the first moment they met.")
“The Minotaur’s Secret” Art and Text by Ben Fink 2023
In the depths of his labyrinth, the Minotaur, Asterius lived a solitary life. Despite the monstrous tales about him, he was a gentle being who longed for companionship. He yearned for someone to share his love and tenderness with but was always alone. His mother, Pasiphae, knew of his secret desires for men, and to appease him, she sent many maidens into the labyrinth. But they all met a gruesome fate at the hands of Asterius. Until one day, she sent Iosephos - a ruggedly handsome man who stole Asterius' heart from the first moment they met.
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![Chapter 1, The Prisoner of Arena Di Verona For the project "Modern Mythology" Art and writing by Ben Fink 2023]()
Chapter 1, The Prisoner of Arena Di Verona For the project "Modern Mythology" Art and writing by Ben Fink 2023
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![Chapter 2, The Prisoner of Arena Di Verona For the project "Modern Mythology." Art and writing by Ben Fink 2023]()
Chapter 2, The Prisoner of Arena Di Verona For the project "Modern Mythology." Art and writing by Ben Fink 2023
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![Chapter 3, “ The Bathhouse” Art and Text by Ben Fink 2023]()
Chapter 3, “ The Bathhouse” Art and Text by Ben Fink 2023
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![“The Fight,” Art by Ben Fink 20223]()
“The Fight,” Art by Ben Fink 20223
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![“The Sack of The Eternal City” 2023]( "“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. ― John F. Kennedy.")
“The Sack of The Eternal City” 2023
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. ― John F. Kennedy.
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Anthony G-386 sm.jpg
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![“Behind the art and myth,” 2023]( "“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.” -David Bowie")
“Behind the art and myth,” 2023
“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.” -David Bowie
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![“The Recovery Mission”]( "“Today I choose to invoke my inner warrior and explore on a reconnaissance mission to heal my body and reconnect that beacon of light that everyone loves.” BFF.")
“The Recovery Mission”
“Today I choose to invoke my inner warrior and explore on a reconnaissance mission to heal my body and reconnect that beacon of light that everyone loves.” BFF.
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![“Enraged” 2022]( "“He with a short knife must try, and try again.”")
“Enraged” 2022
“He with a short knife must try, and try again.”
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![“Blue men of the Minch” Art By Ben Fink 2022]( "Beneath thunderous waves near craggy shores Exist in frigid seas the ancient men of cold blue Fallen angels who now cast to earth are kind no more Courageous seaman’s souls they look to accrue. Imprudent men have eternally suffered Callously the blue men of Minch, have crested the waves Pursuing those without wit, for the challenge that’s offered Condemning fools forever to the brinies depths and it’s caves. Beware of the blue men and their command of the seas. Fierce waves will extend from a flick of their tails, Exhaling breathe launches a furious breeze Masts shall be shattered; and shredded are sails. Consider angels as fair, but fear the blue men of the Minch Salvation will always encroach with a twist Quick be the poets, whose conviction won’t flinch Sheltered passage from verse, is the pardon, that blue men insist. Trading verse with the devil, would be sounder for souls Blue men of Minch have true depth to both rhyme and their prose Brandish poems from heart and the head instead of old scrolls Cauti")
“Blue men of the Minch” Art By Ben Fink 2022
Beneath thunderous waves near craggy shores Exist in frigid seas the ancient men of cold blue Fallen angels who now cast to earth are kind no more Courageous seaman’s souls they look to accrue. Imprudent men have eternally suffered Callously the blue men of Minch, have crested the waves Pursuing those without wit, for the challenge that’s offered Condemning fools forever to the brinies depths and it’s caves. Beware of the blue men and their command of the seas. Fierce waves will extend from a flick of their tails, Exhaling breathe launches a furious breeze Masts shall be shattered; and shredded are sails. Consider angels as fair, but fear the blue men of the Minch Salvation will always encroach with a twist Quick be the poets, whose conviction won’t flinch Sheltered passage from verse, is the pardon, that blue men insist. Trading verse with the devil, would be sounder for souls Blue men of Minch have true depth to both rhyme and their prose Brandish poems from heart and the head instead of old scrolls Cauti
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!["Micah Emloe" Art By Ben Fink 2022]()
"Micah Emloe" Art By Ben Fink 2022
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![“They know not what they do” 2022]( "“The devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.” – Tucker Max")
“They know not what they do” 2022
“The devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.” – Tucker Max
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!["Thirty Coins" 2022]( "And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him. Matthew 26:14.")
"Thirty Coins" 2022
And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him. Matthew 26:14.
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![“Imagine That” 2022]( "\"When one door closes there’s always the wonder of your imagination\" Ben Fink")
“Imagine That” 2022
"When one door closes there’s always the wonder of your imagination" Ben Fink
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![“On My Own Two Feet” 2022]( "art by @benfinkart, model @miguelperezlem - “First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.” - Kristin Hunter")
“On My Own Two Feet” 2022
art by @benfinkart, model @miguelperezlem - “First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.” - Kristin Hunter
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!["The Path is Mine and Mine Alone" 2022]( "Art by Ben Fink and Model Mark Bond. “Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.” – Ram Dass")
"The Path is Mine and Mine Alone" 2022
Art by Ben Fink and Model Mark Bond. “Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.” – Ram Dass
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![“The Burden” 2022]( "Art by Ben Fink, model Alex, - from the series modern Myths and Mythologies.  The Titanomachy and Atlas’ Punishment Iapetus’ sons took the opposing sides during the Titanomachy: while Prometheus and Epimetheus decided to help Zeus, Atlas and his brother Menoetius sided with the Titans. In time, Atlas even managed to become the leader of the rebellion, but that didn’t end up too well for him in the long run, since it got him the most severe punishment after the defeat of the Titans. Namely, Atlas was condemned to hold up the heavens for all eternity, standing at the furthest west edges of the earth near the garden of his daughters, the Hesperides. Some say that the sky was placed directly on his shoulders. Others, however, are more merciful, claiming that Atlas actually holds the two pillars which keep the earth and the sky apart.")
“The Burden” 2022
Art by Ben Fink, model Alex, - from the series modern Myths and Mythologies.  The Titanomachy and Atlas’ Punishment Iapetus’ sons took the opposing sides during the Titanomachy: while Prometheus and Epimetheus decided to help Zeus, Atlas and his brother Menoetius sided with the Titans. In time, Atlas even managed to become the leader of the rebellion, but that didn’t end up too well for him in the long run, since it got him the most severe punishment after the defeat of the Titans. Namely, Atlas was condemned to hold up the heavens for all eternity, standing at the furthest west edges of the earth near the garden of his daughters, the Hesperides. Some say that the sky was placed directly on his shoulders. Others, however, are more merciful, claiming that Atlas actually holds the two pillars which keep the earth and the sky apart.
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![“For the Rights of Human and Animal” 2022]( "Only the dead have seen the end of the war. -George Santayana.")
“For the Rights of Human and Animal” 2022
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. -George Santayana.
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![“The Fabric of Generations Permeates each Cell of Your Body” 2022]( "art by Ben Fink, model @miguelperezlem. - Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. Richard P. Feynman.")
“The Fabric of Generations Permeates each Cell of Your Body” 2022
art by Ben Fink, model @miguelperezlem. - Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. Richard P. Feynman.
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!["A Mirrors can only show partial truths” 2022]( "“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.” Jean Cocteau art by Ben Fink")
"A Mirrors can only show partial truths” 2022
“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.” Jean Cocteau art by Ben Fink
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![“Painted figure” 2022]( "Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul? (Richard Corliss)")
“Painted figure” 2022
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul? (Richard Corliss)
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![:In Celtic Dreams" 2022]( "When men meet foes in fight, better is stout heart than sharp sword. ~Volsunga")
:In Celtic Dreams" 2022
When men meet foes in fight, better is stout heart than sharp sword. ~Volsunga
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!['The reflection of vulnerability” 2022]( "Art by @benfinkart model @let_han_go \"Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity.\" - Brené Brown")
'The reflection of vulnerability” 2022
Art by @benfinkart model @let_han_go "Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity." - Brené Brown
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!["The inner conflict” 2022]( "Art by @benfinkart model @miguelperezlem “The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before. One day when these questions were fighting in his heart, all at once it seemed as if a soundless voice in the depth of his soul replied, \"Thy soul, however it became known to itself, is from the pure heart of God.\" And with the thought, the horizon of his life began to clear.” ― George MacDonald")
"The inner conflict” 2022
Art by @benfinkart model @miguelperezlem “The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before. One day when these questions were fighting in his heart, all at once it seemed as if a soundless voice in the depth of his soul replied, "Thy soul, however it became known to itself, is from the pure heart of God." And with the thought, the horizon of his life began to clear.” ― George MacDonald
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!["The Beauty We Are” 2022]( "Art by Ben Fink, model Han, \"When the inner beauty exceeds the outward beauty–it creates a magical dance in the heart.\" - Angie Karan.-")
"The Beauty We Are” 2022
Art by Ben Fink, model Han, "When the inner beauty exceeds the outward beauty–it creates a magical dance in the heart." - Angie Karan.-
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!["The Offering" - 2021 - Unique - W60x H40 x D1.5 - $7,500-$10,000]( "Endymion after Keats a thing of beauty’s loveliness increase it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep quiet for us, to cease and sleep full of sweet dreams, and their caress health, and quiet breathing, every morrow, are we wreathing there to bind us on the water’s own sorrow spite of despondence in your very stare of noble natures, of the gloomy days, made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, of all the unhealthy and darkened ways some shape of beauty moves away the pall we have imagined for the mighty dead; all lovely tales that we have heard or read. December 30th, 2021 Thursday 7:54pm esperance")
"The Offering" - 2021 - Unique - W60x H40 x D1.5 - $7,500-$10,000
Endymion after Keats a thing of beauty’s loveliness increase it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep quiet for us, to cease and sleep full of sweet dreams, and their caress health, and quiet breathing, every morrow, are we wreathing there to bind us on the water’s own sorrow spite of despondence in your very stare of noble natures, of the gloomy days, made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, of all the unhealthy and darkened ways some shape of beauty moves away the pall we have imagined for the mighty dead; all lovely tales that we have heard or read. December 30th, 2021 Thursday 7:54pm esperance
Words by Terrel Hale
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!["The Taming" - 2021 - Unique - W43x H60 x D1.5" - $7,500 - $10,000]( "ride with me into the dreams of presence the fantasy of real presencing the wishful searching for the touching sense come slow with me across the worshipping I need to touch thee on your thighs of pink as flesh screams emit my cadences here embracing our erupted ways we think love thinks in pulsating wings almost where we started from in myths of narrative in words arranged in patterns of descent almost flying towards places the gods live almost descended into sacrament and told in worship to the sounds of why you and I both will learn to almost fly. December 21st, 2021 3:22pm Tuesday afternoon georgetown")
"The Taming" - 2021 - Unique - W43x H60 x D1.5" - $7,500 - $10,000
ride with me into the dreams of presence the fantasy of real presencing the wishful searching for the touching sense come slow with me across the worshipping I need to touch thee on your thighs of pink as flesh screams emit my cadences here embracing our erupted ways we think love thinks in pulsating wings almost where we started from in myths of narrative in words arranged in patterns of descent almost flying towards places the gods live almost descended into sacrament and told in worship to the sounds of why you and I both will learn to almost fly. December 21st, 2021 3:22pm Tuesday afternoon georgetown
Word By Terrel Hale
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!["The Duality of Conscious and Unconscious" 2021]( "who has the heads to enterprise art’s best and worried innocence in travail’s pause perhapsing in the wish of just because the angels never have their well earned rest we could use both conscious and subconscious to analysis their dual role of love and many more experiences of such non duality and hoped for wish to choose the way to think and not to choose to play the arabesques around a room presumed to be in darkness or in gloom but freed somewhat in listening to blues as if perimeters decide a fate or lessen purposeful inclusions of the mattering of colors and their cause, standing in pleasure’s cool to satiate, the looking and perception’s side of love perceiving how this model stands in flaws.")
"The Duality of Conscious and Unconscious" 2021
who has the heads to enterprise art’s best and worried innocence in travail’s pause perhapsing in the wish of just because the angels never have their well earned rest we could use both conscious and subconscious to analysis their dual role of love and many more experiences of such non duality and hoped for wish to choose the way to think and not to choose to play the arabesques around a room presumed to be in darkness or in gloom but freed somewhat in listening to blues as if perimeters decide a fate or lessen purposeful inclusions of the mattering of colors and their cause, standing in pleasure’s cool to satiate, the looking and perception’s side of love perceiving how this model stands in flaws.
Words by Terrel Hale
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!["Love Rage" 2021]( "Ben Fink: New image Terrel Hale: silent and calm as morning’s slicing cool, the airs become you in your nakedness, becoming all the fonts of seered caress and still playing all of you as my fool still the silent echoing of seeming unable to promote such tendered care that we have cared to search for staying bare in wiles of your cultured, naked screaming stay the gross amounts of catching echo, the blended covenants of waiting for unabided reasons in touching you within the hoping for what we still know within the giving of our something more until resilient you become just you. November 29th, 2021 10:31am Monday morning esperance")
"Love Rage" 2021
Ben Fink: New image Terrel Hale: silent and calm as morning’s slicing cool, the airs become you in your nakedness, becoming all the fonts of seered caress and still playing all of you as my fool still the silent echoing of seeming unable to promote such tendered care that we have cared to search for staying bare in wiles of your cultured, naked screaming stay the gross amounts of catching echo, the blended covenants of waiting for unabided reasons in touching you within the hoping for what we still know within the giving of our something more until resilient you become just you. November 29th, 2021 10:31am Monday morning esperance
Words by Terrel Hale
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!["Nocturnal Animal No 1" 2021]( "nocturnal animals become the night becoming sensuality’s desire to burns of abstinence in naked light the moon keens back while swimming under her running under her complete embracing all the abstinence abounding in vows vowing a physicality touching our flesh on flesh with a touch our singing pulls from this night song in midnights of nows complained in forest breathing tribaling searching for the touching arabesque each plead desire runs swims desiring to finally arrive within a reach of sacramental touching holy rites burning into consent our loving nights. November 24th, 2021 2:27pm Wednesday afternoon esperance")
"Nocturnal Animal No 1" 2021
nocturnal animals become the night becoming sensuality’s desire to burns of abstinence in naked light the moon keens back while swimming under her running under her complete embracing all the abstinence abounding in vows vowing a physicality touching our flesh on flesh with a touch our singing pulls from this night song in midnights of nows complained in forest breathing tribaling searching for the touching arabesque each plead desire runs swims desiring to finally arrive within a reach of sacramental touching holy rites burning into consent our loving nights. November 24th, 2021 2:27pm Wednesday afternoon esperance
Words by Terrell Hale
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!["Daydreaming Fawn" 2021]( "there on the grey greening fawn’s daydreaming stretches imaginary lines somewhere in the ancient ways of Aires they’re singing in the very place that their lines can dare the solitudes fawns agree to before starting the myth, once begun its too late and there is no matinee playing or any more showings and so they just wait if you have ever seen a waiting fawn you’ll know what I mean, they are very good at waiting in the long abouts of dawn but it doesn’t matter really why should it, I’m here for the waiting fawn are you? come wait with me in their greying green blue. November 21, 2021 5:05pm Sunday evening esperance")
"Daydreaming Fawn" 2021
there on the grey greening fawn’s daydreaming stretches imaginary lines somewhere in the ancient ways of Aires they’re singing in the very place that their lines can dare the solitudes fawns agree to before starting the myth, once begun its too late and there is no matinee playing or any more showings and so they just wait if you have ever seen a waiting fawn you’ll know what I mean, they are very good at waiting in the long abouts of dawn but it doesn’t matter really why should it, I’m here for the waiting fawn are you? come wait with me in their greying green blue. November 21, 2021 5:05pm Sunday evening esperance
Words by Terrell Hale
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!["Never Unseen NO 1" 2021]( "“This part of the story is about the gaze and what it felt like in my body to look at someone who looked back at me, to see and be seen. All I wanted was to be seen.”")
"Never Unseen NO 1" 2021
“This part of the story is about the gaze and what it felt like in my body to look at someone who looked back at me, to see and be seen. All I wanted was to be seen.”
words by -Alisson Wood
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!["Our Collective History NO. 1" 2021]( "It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times. Rene Balcer")
"Our Collective History NO. 1" 2021
It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times. Rene Balcer
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!["Reclining Venus" 2021]( "lucullan in shaping flindered light here soft gossamers of white tell shadows all the whisks of alabastered, wanton air braving the seems of willowed whisper, small to the intent our appanage appoints a cindered edge of solitude or less some openness in presencing anoints the braved conclusions of one freshed caress to lye thee silencing, an odalisque, a braver courage of a semblancing, as silent filigrees of arabesque pile dusty carpets we stand on to sing the Gloria’s of monument in awe trying to just remember what we saw. October 31st, 2021 9:39pm Sunday esperance")
"Reclining Venus" 2021
lucullan in shaping flindered light here soft gossamers of white tell shadows all the whisks of alabastered, wanton air braving the seems of willowed whisper, small to the intent our appanage appoints a cindered edge of solitude or less some openness in presencing anoints the braved conclusions of one freshed caress to lye thee silencing, an odalisque, a braver courage of a semblancing, as silent filigrees of arabesque pile dusty carpets we stand on to sing the Gloria’s of monument in awe trying to just remember what we saw. October 31st, 2021 9:39pm Sunday esperance
Words by Terrel Hale
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!["The Incarnation Of Artemisia" 2021]( "named after Apollo’s sister, you stay Herodotus’ only woman in courage or andreia, possessing way too much impossible for having been courageous in painting the sixteenth time raped by Agostino Tassi’s cadence overshadowing careers of paint rhyme and based on a self-portrait that was once made up like an artist with a cracked view where her craquelure provides nothing terms in reconciliations of a few demises of consent without the worms of knowing self, wanting attentioning and then wanting to hide in her hiding.")
"The Incarnation Of Artemisia" 2021
named after Apollo’s sister, you stay Herodotus’ only woman in courage or andreia, possessing way too much impossible for having been courageous in painting the sixteenth time raped by Agostino Tassi’s cadence overshadowing careers of paint rhyme and based on a self-portrait that was once made up like an artist with a cracked view where her craquelure provides nothing terms in reconciliations of a few demises of consent without the worms of knowing self, wanting attentioning and then wanting to hide in her hiding.
Word by Terrell Hale
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!["Goliath's Puppets" 2021]( "calm angry faces of one two suppose three in the parturition’s flesh assay the sent directions of a naked pose in sallow of residuum’s autumned day accoutered calm in visual galere the coterie of each becomes their scud to stay their measure and to almost share while waiting changing stance and blooming blood while others two as puppets of one stoned watch in these calm spaces a gamesomed pink fleshed into the eroticism owned by the flesh in the dark shadows of ink scurried, amalgamated into here a real presencing is very near.")
"Goliath's Puppets" 2021
calm angry faces of one two suppose three in the parturition’s flesh assay the sent directions of a naked pose in sallow of residuum’s autumned day accoutered calm in visual galere the coterie of each becomes their scud to stay their measure and to almost share while waiting changing stance and blooming blood while others two as puppets of one stoned watch in these calm spaces a gamesomed pink fleshed into the eroticism owned by the flesh in the dark shadows of ink scurried, amalgamated into here a real presencing is very near.
Workds Be Terrel Hale
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!["Go Ahead Knock Yourself Out" 2020]( "knock ahead go out yourself I believe this has a lot to do with inner play playing the struggle reflecting relieve self sabotage’s undecided day danced and dancing caught in dark timed remorse the two become the ones of interlude scratching these surfaces into of course the lines edge to some played violent postlude toss up and out ev’ry green glove grieving send all into the evermores of cause in bellicose religions of singing with blood and diligence of one because then narrate the reasons that we should dance in twos on floors of purposing one chance.")
"Go Ahead Knock Yourself Out" 2020
knock ahead go out yourself I believe this has a lot to do with inner play playing the struggle reflecting relieve self sabotage’s undecided day danced and dancing caught in dark timed remorse the two become the ones of interlude scratching these surfaces into of course the lines edge to some played violent postlude toss up and out ev’ry green glove grieving send all into the evermores of cause in bellicose religions of singing with blood and diligence of one because then narrate the reasons that we should dance in twos on floors of purposing one chance.
Words by Terrel Hale
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!["A Vision No 1" 2021]( "vision us outspread in flesh with my wing, with your incandescence looking my eyes in some delight almost arabesques sing the outspread songs of silent stares, love flies us both upon our heaven made intent our trembled awe of aperture is bent gossamers, our appanage, our grace sent to be above, below and where time’s spent with denizens of merled sense outleashed no mere of mortaled myths condensed in place placing the touched geometry we reached half god, half arm and winged with certain grace to better love the loving of intent we stay soaring and soar staying content.")
"A Vision No 1" 2021
vision us outspread in flesh with my wing, with your incandescence looking my eyes in some delight almost arabesques sing the outspread songs of silent stares, love flies us both upon our heaven made intent our trembled awe of aperture is bent gossamers, our appanage, our grace sent to be above, below and where time’s spent with denizens of merled sense outleashed no mere of mortaled myths condensed in place placing the touched geometry we reached half god, half arm and winged with certain grace to better love the loving of intent we stay soaring and soar staying content.
Words by Terrel Hale
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!["In The Clutches of Self-Doubt" 2021]( "doubts self clutch the majesty presencing in small aftermaths of cause, sitting where the angles make up your owned grammering not able to line edges to no wheres to aired indifference words meant for awe sing your vocalize here in autumned aires a suite of melodies this painter saw in splendor’s ultimate in case of sun or moonlight on the avenues of light flindered almost in aperture’s undone crossing our appanage of almost bright sitting on moment’s incandescent pause you watch us sitting on your very cause. October 19th, 2021")
"In The Clutches of Self-Doubt" 2021
doubts self clutch the majesty presencing in small aftermaths of cause, sitting where the angles make up your owned grammering not able to line edges to no wheres to aired indifference words meant for awe sing your vocalize here in autumned aires a suite of melodies this painter saw in splendor’s ultimate in case of sun or moonlight on the avenues of light flindered almost in aperture’s undone crossing our appanage of almost bright sitting on moment’s incandescent pause you watch us sitting on your very cause. October 19th, 2021
Words by Terrel Hale
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![And The War Raged On No.1]( "\"And The War Raged On\" is representative of the body of work that I've been creating for the past several years—transforming everyday people into characters in romantic and fantastical modern mythology—working with models from all walks of life–from doctors to sex workers to other artists. Through extensive post-production, I put them into settings of epic proportion. These models are observed through an objectifying gaze which simultaneously casts them as hypermasculine while also allowing them to be vulnerable. Others in the body of work question gender identity and role-playing, and there's even a nod to the idea of beings that might not be entirely human. In this particular piece, I've used two models that I have utilized in past works to illustrate conflict in relationships through dominant and submissive positions. Placing them in an environment made up of historical imagery, This mix of elements creates an out-of-time effect in the works and makes the models godlike.")
"And The War Raged On" 2021
rage on boisterous outs of war bending on and on in mortality, flesh our inquietudes and piles of sending wings into our presencing, into far aways of nevermores and simple taste of peaceless stretch engaging our peacing of tomorrow now where three fleshes waste no incandescent hell just worrying time’s broken wings of outstretched arabesques to silent almosts of the light turned pose and posing nakedness in undressed risks break our indentured here with our suppose keep three in sudden blast of trinity and give us back a calmed eternity.
words by Terrel Hale,
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!["All Turned Around NO.1"]( "\"a union that suggests the essential myst’ry of the world. art is not an end in itself, but a means of evoking that mystery full of things turned in a difference to bend time to the inclusion of the sway pink sways with time and counting the minute hand is left unjust for censored versions sink into the covered nakedness of man not just any but the one we’re seeing standing back in front, standing in the back of being there in front of his gleaming tattooed on his left of right with no lack of nakedness all turned around he’s stayed in mystery evoking what we made.\"")
"All Turned Around NO.1"
"a union that suggests the essential myst’ry of the world. art is not an end in itself, but a means of evoking that mystery full of things turned in a difference to bend time to the inclusion of the sway pink sways with time and counting the minute hand is left unjust for censored versions sink into the covered nakedness of man not just any but the one we’re seeing standing back in front, standing in the back of being there in front of his gleaming tattooed on his left of right with no lack of nakedness all turned around he’s stayed in mystery evoking what we made."
words by Terrel Hale, September 3rd, 2021 9:51pm Friday esperance
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!["A Lovers Quarrel"]( "\"We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.\"")
"A Lovers Quarrel"
"We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people."
-Steve Goodier
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!["The Sign Of An Anointed Gesture" 2021]( "satyred drips of bubbled wine under hands of some pink rendering, your look takes time to faraways and means of desert sands in wishes of beyond the myth and rhyme come drip the myth into our board, come stay filaments of greed, drink Elysian to brighten arrows of love’s stormy way come grasp the good in flesh we are but men in spirit we soar out to wings to skies of bright redress untold in mirrors of sweet destress in furls of madness opened lies will cover us with nakedness we greet each other’s semblancings out crops of here and anywhere’s in side our horns we bear.")
"The Sign Of An Anointed Gesture" 2021
satyred drips of bubbled wine under hands of some pink rendering, your look takes time to faraways and means of desert sands in wishes of beyond the myth and rhyme come drip the myth into our board, come stay filaments of greed, drink Elysian to brighten arrows of love’s stormy way come grasp the good in flesh we are but men in spirit we soar out to wings to skies of bright redress untold in mirrors of sweet destress in furls of madness opened lies will cover us with nakedness we greet each other’s semblancings out crops of here and anywhere’s in side our horns we bear.
words by Terrel Hale, September 1st, 2021 7:41pm Wednesday esperance
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!["THEM No1" 2021]( "see me in my nakedness in pink folds like your hands in renaissance enfolding us into a sense that stays us and bolds our path into time’s reason and singing flesh on flesh and waiting on the lines to edge damask and grieved edges of grief’s ways seeming and seen and turbid thins us through the arched enclaves of architecture’s maze see hope unblinded justice seeing how a sweeter sense of presencing could take our everywheres to evermores, a Tao interpreted in glazes that we make for them in this owned silence silencing the dread of not becoming what we sing.")
"THEM No1" 2021
see me in my nakedness in pink folds like your hands in renaissance enfolding us into a sense that stays us and bolds our path into time’s reason and singing flesh on flesh and waiting on the lines to edge damask and grieved edges of grief’s ways seeming and seen and turbid thins us through the arched enclaves of architecture’s maze see hope unblinded justice seeing how a sweeter sense of presencing could take our everywheres to evermores, a Tao interpreted in glazes that we make for them in this owned silence silencing the dread of not becoming what we sing.
words by -Terrel Hale
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!["Conjuring Love" 2021]( "\"conjured love is Falstaff’s decadence he bumbles in a dance and we dance to laugh with him, we’re suppose to supposing we are him and he us and drinking his draft we slide together in a staged embrace we trip ourselves in exiting like him and tumbled on his words of torn lace needing a wash, and never having been introduced in motions scripted across the puns and wavered bumpkin in the dross secluded failures, he is our true loss failing in the conjured tries we can’t floss character in mimicked counterbalance we are emptied with his drossed allowance.\"")
"Conjuring Love" 2021
"conjured love is Falstaff’s decadence he bumbles in a dance and we dance to laugh with him, we’re suppose to supposing we are him and he us and drinking his draft we slide together in a staged embrace we trip ourselves in exiting like him and tumbled on his words of torn lace needing a wash, and never having been introduced in motions scripted across the puns and wavered bumpkin in the dross secluded failures, he is our true loss failing in the conjured tries we can’t floss character in mimicked counterbalance we are emptied with his drossed allowance."
words by Terrel Hale,
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!["The More You Dream, The More You Can Do" 2021]( "“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”")
"The More You Dream, The More You Can Do" 2021
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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!["Morning Light No. 1" 2021]( "\"light witnesses the evidence of calm of scurried resplendence across your pink incursions where illusions become psalm and gossamer the shadows of my ink turned recollection burnished by the bright, the familiar and the white wrinkles strewn around reminders of your dance with night here no remainders gather up my lines edged in around time’s decadence just as we see your prescencing, an hour binds us both in studying what art has that peels the pull of you in front of us causing a second look, a nemesis.\"")
"Morning Light No. 1" 2021
"light witnesses the evidence of calm of scurried resplendence across your pink incursions where illusions become psalm and gossamer the shadows of my ink turned recollection burnished by the bright, the familiar and the white wrinkles strewn around reminders of your dance with night here no remainders gather up my lines edged in around time’s decadence just as we see your prescencing, an hour binds us both in studying what art has that peels the pull of you in front of us causing a second look, a nemesis."
words by Terrel Hale,
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!["In Wonderment" 2021]( "“Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.”")
"In Wonderment" 2021
“Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.”
-Diane Ackerman
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!["In The Light Of Creation" 2021]( "\"bright aureole created around light created in the owned lines of God’s grace steadied and discursively in your bright heres and unbending nows bending His face in veiledness and kind grips of revealed love’s escaped darkness, come show our path clear come bend with us our powers once concealed transcending vulnerabilities here in chosen presencing our nakedness transcends revealed possibilities around the evermores of one of us your bending is our passion that we see above, below and all around your lines our edges share flesh and in sharing binds. -Words by @terrel.hale August 30th, 2021 2:01pm esperance\"")
"In The Light Of Creation" 2021
"bright aureole created around light created in the owned lines of God’s grace steadied and discursively in your bright heres and unbending nows bending His face in veiledness and kind grips of revealed love’s escaped darkness, come show our path clear come bend with us our powers once concealed transcending vulnerabilities here in chosen presencing our nakedness transcends revealed possibilities around the evermores of one of us your bending is our passion that we see above, below and all around your lines our edges share flesh and in sharing binds. -Words by @terrel.hale August 30th, 2021 2:01pm esperance"
words by Terrel Hale,
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!["Into The Incalculable Abyss" 2021]( "to the abyss of incalculable jumping or about to in the under world fire on the water and just full of suns turned on their sides asleep to stir the moon rising over him I believe it’s going to be a journey but one that he is debating maybe he’ll leave it looks like he’s calculating he’s won his way back home already in this light of impending darkness journeying to his incalculable darkness our night shared in the despair we have entered through the gate we leave all hope and enter there any way moving towards what we should share.")
"Into The Incalculable Abyss" 2021
to the abyss of incalculable jumping or about to in the under world fire on the water and just full of suns turned on their sides asleep to stir the moon rising over him I believe it’s going to be a journey but one that he is debating maybe he’ll leave it looks like he’s calculating he’s won his way back home already in this light of impending darkness journeying to his incalculable darkness our night shared in the despair we have entered through the gate we leave all hope and enter there any way moving towards what we should share.
Words by Terrel Hale
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!["Modest Man" 2021]( "reverencing in whispers of no kind, no sense or purposing, no touched intent here sharing vulnerability, we go with you to where we also want to show our owned presencing undressed like a mirror to see undone our brotherhood, our might made more resilience in our chosen bare and naked choices choosing this timed light to caress each embrace caressing air we share unbutttoned nows, we share our pink our flesh upon flesh undressing each kept desire bent to desiring ink to write our words across where we have wept in quiet possibilities of touch we touch each other’s silences so much.")
"Modest Man" 2021
reverencing in whispers of no kind, no sense or purposing, no touched intent here sharing vulnerability, we go with you to where we also want to show our owned presencing undressed like a mirror to see undone our brotherhood, our might made more resilience in our chosen bare and naked choices choosing this timed light to caress each embrace caressing air we share unbutttoned nows, we share our pink our flesh upon flesh undressing each kept desire bent to desiring ink to write our words across where we have wept in quiet possibilities of touch we touch each other’s silences so much.
words by Terrel Hale,
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!["THEY" 2021]( "\"he walks in beauty threaded red and sims the turpentine, he sees our owned embrace of paled paling overdraft he dims knowing we know that look on his bright face come fairy king and take away our owned faraways and place us on your winged ways in undressed alabaster unloaned like your gossamers spun then almost fled to where you search in promises of now, come walk with us in solitudes of line edged on embrace and trembled to know how we can follow to your fairy kind. undressed in arabesques of floating dread come walk us in your beauty that you shed.\"")
"THEY" 2021
"he walks in beauty threaded red and sims the turpentine, he sees our owned embrace of paled paling overdraft he dims knowing we know that look on his bright face come fairy king and take away our owned faraways and place us on your winged ways in undressed alabaster unloaned like your gossamers spun then almost fled to where you search in promises of now, come walk with us in solitudes of line edged on embrace and trembled to know how we can follow to your fairy kind. undressed in arabesques of floating dread come walk us in your beauty that you shed."
words by Terrel Hale,
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!["Blessings In Disguise" 2021]( "“I am grateful to those who have betrayed me… They thought they were just stabbing me in the back, but they were also cutting me free from their poisonous life.”")
"Blessings In Disguise" 2021
“I am grateful to those who have betrayed me… They thought they were just stabbing me in the back, but they were also cutting me free from their poisonous life.”
-Steve Maraboli
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!["Never Unseen" 2021]( "“This part of the story is about the gaze and what it felt like in my body to look at someone who looked back at me, to see and be seen. All I wanted was to be seen.”")
"Never Unseen" 2021
“This part of the story is about the gaze and what it felt like in my body to look at someone who looked back at me, to see and be seen. All I wanted was to be seen.”
words by -Alisson Wood
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!["Muy Peligro Mi Hermano" 2021]( "Archival pigment print and Mix-media and Encaustic Painting, Signed and numbered, verso. Price Upon Request,")
"Muy Peligro Mi Hermano" 2021
Archival pigment print and Mix-media and Encaustic Painting, Signed and numbered, verso. Price Upon Request,
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!["Memories beneath the surface of Lake Titicaca" 2021]( "“Objects, too, have trickled through the doors between worlds, blown by strange winds, drifting on white-frosted waves, carried and discarded by careless travelers- even stolen, sometimes. Some of them have been lost or ignored or forgotten- books written in foreign tongues, clothes in strange fashions, devices with no use beyond their home worlds- but some of them have left stories in their wakes. Stories of magic lamps and enchanted mirrors, golden fleeces and fountains of youth, dragon-scale armor and moon-streaked broomsticks.”")
"Memories beneath the surface of Lake Titicaca" 2021
“Objects, too, have trickled through the doors between worlds, blown by strange winds, drifting on white-frosted waves, carried and discarded by careless travelers- even stolen, sometimes. Some of them have been lost or ignored or forgotten- books written in foreign tongues, clothes in strange fashions, devices with no use beyond their home worlds- but some of them have left stories in their wakes. Stories of magic lamps and enchanted mirrors, golden fleeces and fountains of youth, dragon-scale armor and moon-streaked broomsticks.”
-Alix E. Harrow,
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!["The Grasp For Meaning" 2021]( "\"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. \"")
"The Grasp For Meaning" 2021
"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. "
words by Edgar Allan Poe
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!["From One World Into Another" 2021]( "“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”")
"From One World Into Another" 2021
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
words by Carl Sagan
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!["Concupiscent Minotaur" 2021]()
"Concupiscent Minotaur" 2021
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!["The Amalgamation No.1" 2021]( "\"We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing?\"")
"The Amalgamation No.1" 2021
"We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing?"
words by Sri S. Satchidananda,
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!["Male figure study No.6" 2021]( "\"The Creation of Adam\" is probably the most famous of the nine biblical panels Michelangelo painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But did you know the scene contained a hidden human brain? It turns out, Michelangelo was an expert in human anatomy. At 17, he had a somewhat grisly job dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. According to neuroanatomy experts Ian Suk and Rafael Tamargo, the painter placed some carefully concealed illustrations of certain body parts onto the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. And if you look at the shroud surrounding God in \"The Creation of Adam,\" you'll find that it creates an anatomical illustration of the human brain. Suk and Tamargo believe Michelangelo intended for the brain to represent the idea that God was endowing Adam not only with life, but also human knowledge.")
"Male figure study No.6" 2021
"The Creation of Adam" is probably the most famous of the nine biblical panels Michelangelo painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But did you know the scene contained a hidden human brain? It turns out, Michelangelo was an expert in human anatomy. At 17, he had a somewhat grisly job dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. According to neuroanatomy experts Ian Suk and Rafael Tamargo, the painter placed some carefully concealed illustrations of certain body parts onto the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. And if you look at the shroud surrounding God in "The Creation of Adam," you'll find that it creates an anatomical illustration of the human brain. Suk and Tamargo believe Michelangelo intended for the brain to represent the idea that God was endowing Adam not only with life, but also human knowledge.
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!["Bracing For The Fall" 2021]( "“Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out. It is also not being able to remove the smile from your face, loving life with a mad passionate intensity, and feeling ten years younger. Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.”")
"Bracing For The Fall" 2021
“Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out. It is also not being able to remove the smile from your face, loving life with a mad passionate intensity, and feeling ten years younger. Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.”
-Jackie Collins
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!["Study of a man No. 3" 2021]( "“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?”")
"Study of a man No. 3" 2021
“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?”
-Michelangelo.
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!["Between Struggle and Resistance" 2021]( "“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.”")
"Between Struggle and Resistance" 2021
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.”
-Dan Millman
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!["See Me For Who I Am" 2021]( "\"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.\"")
"See Me For Who I Am" 2021
"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts."
-Paramahansa Yogananda
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!["The Temptation of Gabriel" 2021]( "Ben Fink: The last Temptation of Gabriel Terrel Hale: Gabriel, God is my strength, temptation soul pirate of inclusion tempting me unhardened hearts of solitude to one unleash the sombers of eternity to call in foreign tongues of one longed grace manage aperture’s painted craquelure decide amalgamated ways to taste the moon on streets where echos still murmur in some appanage of brilliance just here covered in a skin of no regret each time the hands pray god to answer still near each handled center where one heart will reach pray quietness distilled on shadowing in hopes of incarnates of his waiting. October 20th, 2021")
"The Temptation of Gabriel" 2021
Ben Fink: The last Temptation of Gabriel Terrel Hale: Gabriel, God is my strength, temptation soul pirate of inclusion tempting me unhardened hearts of solitude to one unleash the sombers of eternity to call in foreign tongues of one longed grace manage aperture’s painted craquelure decide amalgamated ways to taste the moon on streets where echos still murmur in some appanage of brilliance just here covered in a skin of no regret each time the hands pray god to answer still near each handled center where one heart will reach pray quietness distilled on shadowing in hopes of incarnates of his waiting. October 20th, 2021
Words by Terrel Hale
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!["By the light of Hermes" 2021]( "“Solitude, The Safeguard Of Mediocrity, Is To Genius The Stern Friend, The Cold, Obscure Shelter Where Moult The Wings Which Will Bear It Farther Than Suns And Stars. He Who Should Inspire And Lead His Race Must Be Defended From Travelling With The Souls Of Other Men, From Living, Breathing, Reading, And Writing In The Daily, Time-worn Yoke Of Their Opinions. \"In The Morning, - Solitude;\" Said Pythagoras; That Nature May Speak To The Imagination, As She Does Never In Company, And That Her Favorite May Make Acquaintance With Those Divine Strengths Which Disclose Themselves To Serious And Abstracted Thought. 'Tis Very Certain That Plato, Plotinus, Archimedes, Hermes, Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, Did Not Live In A Crowd, But Descended Into It From Time To Time As Benefactors: And The Wise Instructor Will Press This Point Of Securing To The Young Soul In The Disposition Of Time And The Arrangements Of Living, Periods And Habits Of Solitude.”")
"By the light of Hermes" 2021
“Solitude, The Safeguard Of Mediocrity, Is To Genius The Stern Friend, The Cold, Obscure Shelter Where Moult The Wings Which Will Bear It Farther Than Suns And Stars. He Who Should Inspire And Lead His Race Must Be Defended From Travelling With The Souls Of Other Men, From Living, Breathing, Reading, And Writing In The Daily, Time-worn Yoke Of Their Opinions. "In The Morning, - Solitude;" Said Pythagoras; That Nature May Speak To The Imagination, As She Does Never In Company, And That Her Favorite May Make Acquaintance With Those Divine Strengths Which Disclose Themselves To Serious And Abstracted Thought. 'Tis Very Certain That Plato, Plotinus, Archimedes, Hermes, Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, Did Not Live In A Crowd, But Descended Into It From Time To Time As Benefactors: And The Wise Instructor Will Press This Point Of Securing To The Young Soul In The Disposition Of Time And The Arrangements Of Living, Periods And Habits Of Solitude.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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!["Centaur and Minotaur" 2021]( "“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to a musical half man half bull was all bull.”")
"Centaur and Minotaur" 2021
“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to a musical half man half bull was all bull.”
-Don Roff,
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!["He, She, They, Them" 2021]( "\"Male? female? both? No one's ever asked me that question, I see myself as neither. I'm something different all together.\"")
"He, She, They, Them" 2021
"Male? female? both? No one's ever asked me that question, I see myself as neither. I'm something different all together."
E.M. Hamill
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!["Gorgon, father of the well-known Medusa" 2021]( "“We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.”")
"Gorgon, father of the well-known Medusa" 2021
“We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.”
-Primo Levi
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![“Cynocephalus or Anubis” 2021]( "familiar to the ancient Greeks to lift the Egyptian god of the dead as these therianthropic abilities shift between human and animal to please original form of the being, sees lion goddess in human form, something non-literal depicting deities confusing Greece in how they tried to sing a detailed report on the existence of cynocephali in India living in the mountains in pairs of once three cumbersomes fleshed in flesh mortaled flaw bending to arrange a decadence where gods and mortaled geometry could share.")
“Cynocephalus or Anubis” 2021
familiar to the ancient Greeks to lift the Egyptian god of the dead as these therianthropic abilities shift between human and animal to please original form of the being, sees lion goddess in human form, something non-literal depicting deities confusing Greece in how they tried to sing a detailed report on the existence of cynocephali in India living in the mountains in pairs of once three cumbersomes fleshed in flesh mortaled flaw bending to arrange a decadence where gods and mortaled geometry could share.
Words by Terrel Hale
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!["The Story I Tell" 2021]( "“A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained.”")
"The Story I Tell" 2021
“A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained.”
– Shawn Hitchcock
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!["The Performer" 2021]( "“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.”")
"The Performer" 2021
“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.”
-T.F. Hodge
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!["Sheep's Clothing" 2021]( "clothed in crinolines of white embrace lines edge his reasoned background cherubing space and depth and painterly perspective finds us to look at back into his turned face right in aboves and singled into grace he waits us in his stance of outstretched calm encasing us with visions of a place to call us further into one more psalm breeched quietly as cherubs fall in air and stay their wings upon an echo sound sounding a bird like benefit to to bare his and our innocence upon our ground sheep-like in possibilities to give a sacrifice upon a heart and live.")
"Sheep's Clothing" 2021
clothed in crinolines of white embrace lines edge his reasoned background cherubing space and depth and painterly perspective finds us to look at back into his turned face right in aboves and singled into grace he waits us in his stance of outstretched calm encasing us with visions of a place to call us further into one more psalm breeched quietly as cherubs fall in air and stay their wings upon an echo sound sounding a bird like benefit to to bare his and our innocence upon our ground sheep-like in possibilities to give a sacrifice upon a heart and live.
Words by Terrel Hale
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!["Anonymous Tyrant" 2021]( "“Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.”")
"Anonymous Tyrant" 2021
“Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.”
-William Inge
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!["Temple Bathers No.1" 2020]( "“I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.\"")
"Temple Bathers No.1" 2020
“I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction."
-Lydia Lunch.
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!["The War of Gods and Giants" 2021]( "“Power is dangerous. It corrupts the best and attracts the worst. Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.”")
"The War of Gods and Giants" 2021
“Power is dangerous. It corrupts the best and attracts the worst. Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.”
-Ragnar Lothbrok
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!["To Grasp History In The Hall Of Records" 2021]( "“The Akashic Records are a soul-level dimension of consciousness that contain a vibrational archive of every soul and its journey. The energy that contains the information in the Akashic Records is known as the Akasha, a Sanskrit word meaning, primary substance. This gentle energy is a vibrational quality of light.”")
"To Grasp History In The Hall Of Records" 2021
“The Akashic Records are a soul-level dimension of consciousness that contain a vibrational archive of every soul and its journey. The energy that contains the information in the Akashic Records is known as the Akasha, a Sanskrit word meaning, primary substance. This gentle energy is a vibrational quality of light.”
-The Universe
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!["The Dreams Of A Jinn" 2021]( "“We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.”")
"The Dreams Of A Jinn" 2021
“We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.”
- Nick Bostrom
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!["Divide and Conquer" 2021]( "“The rich ruling class has used tribalism, a primitive caveman instinct, to their advantage since the beginning of time. They use it to divide and conquer us. They drive wedges between us peasants and make us fight each other, so we won’t rise up against our rulers and fight them. You can observe the same old trick everywhere in America today: Red states and blue states are fighting. Christians and Muslims are fighting. Men and women are fighting. Baby Boomers and Millennials are fighting. Black people and white people are fighting. That doesn’t just happen all by itself. There are always voices instigating these fights.”")
"Divide and Conquer" 2021
“The rich ruling class has used tribalism, a primitive caveman instinct, to their advantage since the beginning of time. They use it to divide and conquer us. They drive wedges between us peasants and make us fight each other, so we won’t rise up against our rulers and fight them. You can observe the same old trick everywhere in America today: Red states and blue states are fighting. Christians and Muslims are fighting. Men and women are fighting. Baby Boomers and Millennials are fighting. Black people and white people are fighting. That doesn’t just happen all by itself. There are always voices instigating these fights.”
-Oliver Markus Malloy,
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!["Lying In Wait No. 1" 2021]( "reach me in the crinolines of touch, time me across your wrinkles whitened in green arabesques and flat surfaces of rhyme we are here watching each other as seen from our closeness you are stretching across we complete suggesting gossamers touch touching our lines edged on our lying loss yielding vulnerabilities of much decision simply waiting like you now I want to wait too as you will decide the wiles of small embrace embracing how we could love, our possibilities, I’d be pretty sure that no demise is done in your deciding what you’ve already won.")
"Lying In Wait No. 1" 2021
reach me in the crinolines of touch, time me across your wrinkles whitened in green arabesques and flat surfaces of rhyme we are here watching each other as seen from our closeness you are stretching across we complete suggesting gossamers touch touching our lines edged on our lying loss yielding vulnerabilities of much decision simply waiting like you now I want to wait too as you will decide the wiles of small embrace embracing how we could love, our possibilities, I’d be pretty sure that no demise is done in your deciding what you’ve already won.
Words by Terrel Hale,
"Modern Myth and Mythology"
“I’m an interdisciplinary artist who intertwines the realms of photography, digital manipulation, and physical painting. My creative process merges the traditional and the digital, resulting in a fusion that breathes life into static images. Central to my practice is the application of encaustic wax painting, a technique that infuses my work with a tangible, evocative texture. This tactile finish imbues each piece with a palpable sense of depth and history, a quality that connects my contemporary work with artistic practices of the past. Through my project, 'Modern Myth and Mythology,' I explore the intersection of ancient narratives and modern perceptions, challenging viewers to perceive the world through a lens steeped in rich storytelling and symbolism, unearthing the hidden layers of the human experience, revealing the timeless tales that resonate in our collective consciousness.""As an artist, I believe that art serves multiple functions, acting not only as a conduit of aesthetic expression but also as a bridge connecting us to the richness of human experience that often feels distant in our fast-paced, modern society. My work aims to unearth these layered narratives and bring them to the fore, making them accessible and relevant to our current lives. I see my role as a storyteller, spinning visual tales that capture the diverse experiences of humanity.
In a world where many individuals, particularly marginalized groups such as people of color and the LGBTQ+ community, often feel excluded from mainstream narratives, my art seeks to amplify their voices. I am committed to creating pieces that represent their experiences, their struggles, and their triumphs. Art, in my view, should be a democratic space, where every story matters and everyone sees themselves reflected. Through my work, I aspire to break down barriers, challenge preconceptions, and create a more inclusive dialogue about the human experience. I want my art to be a platform for these marginalized stories, for I believe that in their telling, we deepen our understanding of our shared humanity."
"Among my artistic influences are a blend of literary and visual sources, with a primary emphasis on mythology and folktales. These age-old stories, with their universal themes and archetypal characters, provide a rich framework upon which I construct my narratives. The tales are not just retold, but reimagined through the lens of the individuals who stand before my camera, transforming the abstract into the personal.
The process is deeply collaborative, with each model contributing to the storytelling process. Shot against a green screen, they become actors in their own mythical tales, a technique that allows me to digitally craft their surroundings into landscapes of mythical proportions. This blend of the real and the fantastical creates a surreal environment, a space where the mundane meets the magical.
Once the image is complete, the final stage of my process involves writing a short story that intertwines elements of the subject's life into a grand narrative. These stories often echo the realities of the subjects, reflecting their dreams, aspirations, and struggles. They serve as a testament to the power of personal stories, their capacity to resonate with broader themes, and the transformative potential of art. The intertwining of visual and textual narratives allows me to create a deeply immersive experience, inviting viewers to step into a world that blurs the boundaries between the real and the mythical."
"My visual influences span across centuries, drawing from the rich well of art history. I am particularly inspired by the eras from the Renaissance to the late 19th century, a period that witnessed a remarkable evolution of artistic styles and techniques. These periods inform the aesthetic and compositional choices in my work, as I endeavor to bring their timeless elegance into the digital age.
Artists like Jan van Eyck, with his meticulous attention to detail and pioneering use of oil paint, and Hieronymus Bosch, with his fantastical and symbolic narratives, have significantly influenced my artistic process. The exquisite detail of Albrecht Dürer's work, the sublime humanism of Michelangelo's sculptures and paintings, the bold use of color and contrast by Titian, and the dramatic chiaroscuro of Caravaggio - all these masters have left an indelible mark on my artistic sensibilities.
In studying and appreciating their work, I have learned to imbue my own art with a sense of narrative depth, technical precision, and an understanding of light and shadow. The influence of these artists is evident in the stylistic choices I make, from the composition of my images to the application of encaustic wax, a nod to the rich history of art that these masters have shaped. By integrating these historical influences with modern digital techniques, my art serves as a bridge between past and present, marrying the old with the new in a way that is distinctively my own."
"In my work, I also explore the often subtle and overlooked sexual undertones that permeate historical narratives and relationships. While these themes might not always be explicit in the traditional narratives and historical art, a closer examination often reveals a rich tapestry of human interactions, desires, and identities.
In my art, I strive to make these undertones more explicit, to bring these hidden-connections and emotions to the forefront. By doing so, I challenge viewers to look beyond the surface of history and conventional storytelling, to question and reevaluate the relationships and dynamics presented in classical tales. This approach helps to humanize the characters in my work, revealing their complexities, desires, and vulnerabilities.
Incorporating these subtle sexual themes also allows me to connect with contemporary audiences on a deeper level, by addressing topics that resonate with today's sensibilities and concerns. Through my exploration of these undertones, I aim to create a dialogue around the fluidity of human relationships, the multifaceted nature of desire, and the often underrepresented aspects of our shared history.
By juxtaposing the overtly mythical with the hidden sensuality, my work seeks to challenge preconceptions, stimulate conversations, and provoke thought about the intricate web of human experience. Through this approach, I invite viewers to reengage with history and mythology, seeing them not just as distant, abstract narratives, but as living stories that continue to shape our understanding of ourselves and the world around us."