Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Lola Ghost posted this picture on Facebook with the title, “Sometimes there is beauty in something broken.” It really spoke to me because I, too, see beauty in what others see as broken. The flowers reclaiming the broken road and overpass, adding color to the gray of the concrete are beautiful, but so is the rust that adds traces of color to the metal. There is also something admirable in the will to survive that keeps the houseless getting up to face each new day. I wish their lives were easier, but they do not succumb to despair and carry stones into the water.
This also spoke to me of my city. Portland, Oregon is beautiful and lately it has been characterized as broken due to an ever-growing number of houseless people and months of sustained violent confrontations between police and protesters. But when you look out the window of the bus and see a tarp stretched among trees in a greenway, with a painting hung on a hanger from the rope, the struggle from those who are in extremis to still hold beauty in their lives gives me hope, more hope than a home in “Architectural Digest.” Clearly, we need better answers for people without housing, but there is an indomitable spirit among the houseless that is admirable and beautiful.
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I blame the dancing robots all over Twitter yesterday, but when I saw Lola’s “Tractor” I thought there were some robot dogs in the wheat. Right in the middle of the robot dance, in comes a robot dog who is by far the best dancer of the bunch. I saw the curves of the fenders first and somehow they became two robot dogs. I have to concentrate now to see the tractor. If I enlarge it, there is no hint of robot dogs, but at the normal size there are robots dancing in the wheat. I hope a few of you see it so I am not “seeing things.” I love it. I always love pictures of tractors rusting away in the field but coming from farm country, I can tell you they get parked in the Quonset hut.
“Almost Harvest” is a beautiful picture of an undeniably beautiful scene with an old windmill just waiting for Don Quixote. However, I also think of Jacob von Ruisdael who seemed to be obsessed with windmills. This picture does have that painterly feeling, doesn’t it.
Lola Ghost is a good person to follow on Flickr. She alternates between fashion pics and landscapes. I love her ability to find beauty in what many people pass by. I value that generous eye that can see beauty in the mundane as well as the more conventional beauty of a windmill.
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