Pink Hippo spotted in Kenya.
Pink Dolphin, not to be confused with the Amazon river dolphin which is also pretty pink.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Pink!
Rarely seen in Nature, as day-glo colouring makes it difficult to avoid predators or hunt for prey. Making the existence of these animals all the more amazing and special.
Pink Hippo spotted in Kenya.
Pink Dolphin, not to be confused with the Amazon river dolphin which is also pretty pink.
Pink Hippo spotted in Kenya.Pink Dolphin, not to be confused with the Amazon river dolphin which is also pretty pink.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Tooth and Claw
When Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote In Memoriam, it was as an elegy for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam. But it is his description of Nature as "red in tooth and claw" that has created imagery that has lasted over one hundred and fifty years. He was referring to Nature's cruelty for taking the life of a beloved friend, but we are reminded daily that Nature does not share our sentimentality.
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation’s final law–
Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek’d against his creed–
Who loved, who suffer’d countless ills,
Who battled for the True, the Just,
Be blown about the desert dust,
Or seal’d within the iron hills?
As Humans we are subject to the whims of Nature.
The entire poem is available here in all its delicious Victorian melodrama.
Two Owls by Debbie Carlos found on Etsy.
Clockwise from top:
Fox claw pendant OdetteNewYork/Tooth Ring e e lewis/Teeth ring by Anne Arden McDonald/Owl Claw necklace by Black Sparrow
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation’s final law–
Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek’d against his creed–
Who loved, who suffer’d countless ills,
Who battled for the True, the Just,
Be blown about the desert dust,
Or seal’d within the iron hills?
As Humans we are subject to the whims of Nature.
The entire poem is available here in all its delicious Victorian melodrama.
Two Owls by Debbie Carlos found on Etsy.
Clockwise from top:
Fox claw pendant OdetteNewYork/Tooth Ring e e lewis/Teeth ring by Anne Arden McDonald/Owl Claw necklace by Black Sparrow
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Introduction
Braided Stream is a convergence of images and ideas surrounding Art, Nature, Craft and Science. Hopefully it will also provide beauty, knowledge and wonder.
The above photograph was taken in 1941 near the junction of the Yukon River and the Koyukuk River in Alaska. This image of many streams running into one another and overlapping, changing course and connections is a visual metaphor for the content of this blog.
Following is a collection of art works that I find visually connected to the photograph and also exhibit the tangle of ideas that this site will include.
Braid drawing by Niall McClelland, ink on paper and really old. See some of his newer work at www.niallmcclelland.com.
The images above were found on etsy and then I lost their information to the ether of cyberspace. They are far too beautiful to exclude though.
The above photograph was taken in 1941 near the junction of the Yukon River and the Koyukuk River in Alaska. This image of many streams running into one another and overlapping, changing course and connections is a visual metaphor for the content of this blog.
Following is a collection of art works that I find visually connected to the photograph and also exhibit the tangle of ideas that this site will include.
Braid drawing by Niall McClelland, ink on paper and really old. See some of his newer work at www.niallmcclelland.com.
The images above were found on etsy and then I lost their information to the ether of cyberspace. They are far too beautiful to exclude though.
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