Solocrow — One Crow Against the World

Pentina

Posted on April 8th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Fiction, Generic Blatherings, Images.

The long silence of sand and stone
Whispers into the dark belonging to the night birds.
Waves glint with inner timeless wisdom,
And a crown of cloud-frost haloes the moon.
Eternal spirals twist restlessly in forgotten shells.

Sea-phantom forms writhe into the pearled shell-depths;
Living stones, striving in the muck
Under the unblinking eye of a summer moon.
The delicacies hide from the sun and its hungry bird-maws –
A Strong rationale, the wisdom of the unseen.

Wisdom,
Shells,
The wild cries of birds,
And the singing, silent stones –
Yes, these things gather under moon and sun.

Sun and moon – locked forever in chase,
Never growing wise to the mortal strivings
Of stones turning to sand,
Of shells, empty and hollow,
Of the broken pinions of weary, frail birds.

Memories haunt the night, like the fragile birds –
Calling themselves together in moonlight,
Curling themselves into shell-spirals,
Piling their wisdoms together
Into little cairns of stone bravery in the surf.

Soon the stones become birds,
And the wisdoms rub smooth into moon-pearls, hidden in shells.

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A promise kept

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Images.

The atomic goldfinch — a mixed media doodle for someone stuck studying chem and aviation.

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Revived Technique

Posted on February 28th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Images.

It’s been ages since I’ve dabbled in many of the artistic techniques I was shuffled through as an ungrad in college. One I particularly despised at the time was a course in printmaking. Mind you, I had no bones with the professor, nor the material of the course itself — instead, I loathed the tedious nature of the process, which I partially chalk up to my general attitude of impatience at the time. On the other hand, relief printing *is* genuinely dilatory if done with any attention to craftsmanship.
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Today’s blackbird

Posted on February 5th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Images.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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Solar flair?

Posted on January 14th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Images.

From my recent adventures into the art of making stained glass.

The bird shape was painted on the amber colored glass and then fired. Note the horizontal fracture as proof of my amateur status — I broke the piece while trying to trim it to fit the overall design.

Still sort of pretty, though.

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