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"The job of an artist is to always deepen the mystery."
- Francis Bacon

JEFF WILLIAMS (inanga), Artist, Writer and Web Designer

Hi, I’m a Kiwi from Greymouth on the West Coast of Aotearoa and inanga is my painting/pen name. I travelled the world as a mountaineer and travel writer (for Lonely Planet) for many years, and I started painting later in life after a chance meeting with the infamous, in New Zealand, art forger Karl Sim (aka Goldie). The Coast has been my inspiration, and many of my artistic influences and mysticism of my art and writing stem from the rugged landscape found there.

I paint extensively utilizing the Phi-spiral based on the Golden Ratio and describe in writing the spiritual connections with the land, and the motif and symbol in my work.

My credo is: I paint to capture the moment I am in - that nanosecond when light is fused into the image in front of me. Each painting starts as a swirl and then evolves into a lattice of swirls - the results astonish, regardless of method, media, size or surface. It is my tangible hand of God.

I set up Hand of God Productions to fulfill a vision of an online gallery infinite in scope as the www. In the gallery click to see paintings, writings, slideshows, even ‘Google Earth tour’ to worldwide locations depicted in my art. My online galleries receive many visitors, inquiries, comments and sales and I am now exhibiting for the first time in the land of my birth. I recently finished and have published the first part of a trilogy on Aotearoa called “Tides of Heaven: The Night Fishermen”, available on ibooks and Amazon -

ibooks: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/book/the-night-fishermen/id586042055?mt=11

amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Night-Fishermen-Aotearoa-ebook/dp/B00APSKF5M

Please enjoy - inanga

A recent review from Amazon -

"what a book! historical fact intermingled with toa tohunga magic. this is a must if you are whanau or pakeha. the realm of tu and the lives of the hirama mix and the story is epic. from raha's escape leading to the famous haka ka mate to the privations and glory of the warriors of yesteryear. I loved it and will read it again and again.
hone - Ireland"

I hope some of the PAINT and LETTERS rub off on you. i am at inangawiremu@gmail.com, Facebook - Jeff Williams, Webcam or iPhone +64-21-02252622

- 'mitakuye oyasin' (we are all one) - JEFF (inanga)

Featured Galleries

Tuscany Painting Tour

i had to clean up this gallery before i could repost it in Travel. i l ...

Updated: May 19, 2010 12:38pm

PatRik- Carvings with Soul

Wonderful carvings from Aotearoa

Updated: Apr 04, 2013 5:07pm

The Night Fishermen

AOTEAROA: TIDES OF HEAVEN: The Night Fishermen - Jeff Williams - T ...

Updated: Apr 10, 2013 4:58pm

The Battle of the Trees

Owaiouru-o-pakaka-o-karakau (Sacred Grove of the Battle of the Trees) ...

Updated: Apr 10, 2013 7:28pm

Slideshow

Galleries

Faces of Earth

Faces of Earth In this gallery we look at our identifier, the face ...

Updated: May 18, 2010 12:00am PST

The irenicon

The irenicon - a journey in canvas. Obviously lots more to come as tim ...

Updated: Apr 10, 2013 5:45pm PST

Hopi & Waitaha

Arizona (and the three mesa of the Hopi) is one of my spiritual homes. ...

Updated: Feb 07, 2010 8:43am PST

The Night Fishermen

AOTEAROA: TIDES OF HEAVEN: The Night Fishermen - Jeff Williams - T ...

Updated: Apr 09, 2013 7:58pm PST

Sufi Magic

I am very much influenced by the writing of the Sufi saints of the Mid ...

Updated: Dec 15, 2009 10:49pm PST

Tuscany Painting Tour

i had to clean up this gallery before i could repost it in Travel. i l ...

Updated: May 18, 2010 3:38pm PST

The Battle of the Trees

Owaiouru-o-pakaka-o-karakau (Sacred Grove of the Battle of the Trees) ...

Updated: Apr 09, 2013 10:28pm PST

The Phi Swirl

Hi inanga here... i saved a site on SmugMug for future use by arts ...

Updated: May 18, 2010 12:28am PST

PatRik- Carvings with Soul

Wonderful carvings from Aotearoa

Updated: Apr 03, 2013 8:07pm PST

Aotearoa I - New Zealand

Aotearoa 1 - New Zealand My country is Aotearoa - Land of the Long Wh ...

Updated: Dec 15, 2009 4:04am PST

Sacred Spaces

Sacred Spaces - i suppose all space on earth is sacred, although we se ...

Updated: Dec 07, 2009 3:19pm PST

Seasons

Seasons These four pieces were executed on the same piece of timber – ...

Updated: Aug 03, 2009 11:51pm PST

Ms P: Rainbow Series

R a i n b o w Series This all started as a bit of a dare. Ms P felt ...

Updated: Sep 10, 2009 7:01pm PST

Collages

This is a fascinating art, but beware it is addictive. In order to get ...

Updated: Dec 19, 2009 5:37pm PST

Land of Oz

Land of Oz - these pics were originally in Sacred Spaces. All the Eart ...

Updated: Nov 26, 2009 9:05pm PST

Aotearoa II - New Zealand

Another gallery of my Aotearoa (New Zealand) paintings using the Phi-s ...

Updated: Dec 13, 2009 11:19pm PST

Rooms with a View - inanga's Big OE Snapshots

Rooms with a View - all those years as a traveller - travel writing fo ...

Updated: Sep 02, 2009 5:52pm PST

Scrolls and Boxes of Wisdom

Phi-tography

I could never take a good photograph - nor can I obviously spell it - ...

Updated: Aug 18, 2010 4:59am PST

inanga - Smug Ugly

The Wizard in the Spiral - this is a collection of biographical pics, ...

Updated: Jun 02, 2010 3:43am PST

Built World

Like a lot of this gallery of my work I am busy with the sorting of im ...

Updated: Dec 05, 2009 4:23am PST

Welcome to Jville (Johnsonville). Where I live...

Thanks for the invitation to your Blues Festival community - a little ...

Updated: Dec 09, 2009 10:51am PST

Mu Torere

Here is one of the greatest games of All - (the Octopus) - feel free t ...

Updated: Sep 19, 2009 7:37am PST

Another Roadside Attraction - Arizona

i invented this game 'Treasure Island', but it's not the usual Robert ...

Updated: Dec 13, 2009 11:18pm PST

SmugShots

Work-in-progress for rest of site

Updated: Nov 10, 2010 2:19pm PST

Smug Serious

Mainly Anti-War Compositions

Updated: Feb 10, 2010 5:49am PST

Spirituality

Smug Secrets - to be revealed... in due course.

Updated: Sep 25, 2009 6:26am PST

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Most Popular Photos

Beauty (Ms P) and the Beast (Te Rangihaeata)

Titahi Bay map, greenstone pendant, photograph, glitter, gouache and acrylic on A3 200gsm art paper - SOLD. Rangihaeata was Te Rauparaha's nephew and his mana extended to Titahi Bay. Ms P is the model on the pedestal.

Repurchased for Ms P's Private Collection, Johnsonville

Screen Capture in the 21st Century

courtesy mfnw, inanga, Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

The Clown's comment about me after he saw this:

'You've gone bloody mad!'

inanga

Core of the Sun

detail from 'The Birth of the Planets' (a Maoriori understanding of those events). Painter's Plog: Stardate 2001 A Space Oddity.

'Bones, what are the preventatives for such massive doses of solar radiation?'

'Well Vulcans are immune for some cosmological reason. Me, I am starting to worry Dr Spock. The heat shields have malfunctioned in the past. Remember that HAARP nonsense back on Earth Prime in 2009. At least we learnt our lesson on Earth 2.'

acrylic and gouache on paper 2006

210mm x 300mm unframed

inanga

Buddha Sun

Death and the Final Instructions of the Buddha

"…Then the Blessed One addressed the monks.—

" Where, O monks, is Ananda? "

"Reverend Sir, the venerable Ananda has entered the monastery, and leaning against the bolt of the door, he weeps, saying, 'Behold, I am but a learner, and not yet perfect, and my Teacher is on the point of passing into Nirvana, he who was so compassionate to me.'"

Then the Blessed One addressed a certain monk, saying,—

"Go, O monk, and say to the venerable Ananda from me, 'The Teacher calls you, brother Ananda."'

…Ananda … drew near to where The Blessed One was; and having drawn near and greeted The Blessed One, he sat down respectfully at one side. And the venerable Ananda being seated respectfully at one side, The Blessed One spoke to him as follows:—

"Enough, Ananda, do not grieve, nor weep. Have I not already told you, Ananda, that it is in the very nature of all things near and dear unto us that we must divide ourselves from them, leave them, sever ourselves from them? How is it possible, Ananda, that whatever has been born, has come into being, is organized and perishable, should not perish? That condition is not possible. For a long time, Ananda, have you waited on the Tathagata with a kind, devoted, cheerful, single-hearted, unstinted service of body, with a kind, devoted, cheerful, single-hearted, unstinted service of voice, with a kind, devoted, cheerful, single-hearted, unstinted service of mind. You have acquired much merit, Ananda; exert yourself, and soon will you be free from all depravity."

'Go thou, Ananda, and enter the city Kusinara, and announce to the Kusinara-Mallas:—

"Tonight, O you Vasetthas, in the last watch, the Tathagata will pass into Nirvana. Be favorable, be favorable, O you Vasetthas, and suffer not that afterwards you feel remorse, saying, 'The Tathagata passed into Nirvana while in our borders, but we did not avail ourselves of the opportunity of being present at the last moments of the Tathagata.'"

…The Mallas, on hearing the speech of the venerable Ananda, and their children and their daughters-in-law and their wives were grieved and sorrowful and overwhelmed with anguish of mind, and some let fly their hair and cried aloud, and stretched out their arms and cried aloud, and fell headlong to the ground and rolled to and fro, saying,

"All too soon will The Blessed One pass into Nirvana; all too soon will The Happy One pass into Nirvana; all too soon will The Light of the World vanish from sight." Then the Mallas and their children and their daughters-in-law and their wives, being grieved and sorrowful and overwhelmed with anguish of mind, drew near to the sala-tree grove Upavattana of the Mallas, and to where the venerable Ananda was.

Now at that time Subhadda, a wandering ascetic, was dwelling at Kusinara. And Subhadda, the wandering ascetic, heard the report:—

"Tonight, in the last watch, the monk Gautama will pass into Nirvana."

Then it occurred to Subhadda, the wandering ascetic, as follows:—

"I have heard wandering ascetics, that were old men, advanced in years, teachers, and teachers' teachers, declare, 'But seldom, and on rare occasions, does a Tathagata, a saint, and Supreme Buddha arise in the world.' And tonight, in the last watch, the monk Gautama will pass into Nirvana. And a certain question has arisen in my mind, and I am persuaded of the monk Gautama that he can so teach me the Doctrine that I shall be relieved of this my doubt."

Then Subhadda, the wandering ascetic, drew near to the sala-tree grove Upavattana of the Dallas, and to where the venerable Ananda was, and having drawn near, he spoke to the venerable Ananda as follows:—

"Ananda, I have heard wandering ascetics, that were old men, advanced in years, teachers, and teachers' teachers, declare, 'But seldom, and on rare occasions, does a Tathagata, a saint, and Supreme Buddha arise in the world.' And tonight, in the last watch, the monk Gautama will pass into Nirvana. And a certain doubt has arisen in my mind, and I am persuaded of the monk Gautama that he can so teach me the Doctrine that I shall be relieved of this my doubt. Let me, then, Ananda, have an opportunity of seeing the monk Gautama."

When Subhadda, the wandering ascetic, had so spoken, the venerable Ananda spoke to him as follows:—

"Enough of that, brother Subhadda; trouble not the Tathagata. The Blessed One is weary."

[Subhadda persisted a second and a third time, and was refused by Ananda each time.] … Now the Blessed One chanced to hear the conversation between the venerable Ananda and the wandering ascetic Subhadda. And The Blessed One called to the venerable Ananda:—

" Enough, Ananda; hinder not Subhadda. Let Subhadda, Ananda, have an opportunity of beholding the Tathagata. Whatever Subhadda shall ask of me, he will ask for the sake of information, and not for the sake of troubling me, and he will quickly understand my answers to his questions."

Then the venerable Ananda spoke to Subhadda, the wandering ascetic, as follows:—

"You may come, brother Subhadda; The Blessed One grants you an audience."

Then Subhadda, the wandering ascetic, drew near to where The Blessed One was; and having drawn near, he exchanged greetings with The Blessed One; and having passed with him the greetings of friendship and civility, he sat down respectfully at one side. And seated respectfully at one side, Subhadda, the wandering ascetic, spoke to The Blessed One as follows:—

"Gautama, all those monks and Brahmans who possess a large following and crowds of hearers and disciples, and who are distinguished, renowned leaders of sects, and highly esteemed by the multitudes,—to writ, Purana Kassapa, Makkhali Gosala, Ajita Kesakambali, Pakudha Kaccayana, Sanjaya Belatthiputta, Nigantha Nathaputta,—have they all done as they maintain, discovered the truth, or have they not? or have some of them done so, and others not? "

"Enough, O Subhadda! let us leave the question, 'Have they all done as they maintain, discovered the truth, or have they not? or have some of them done so, and others not?' The Doctrine will I teach you, Subhadda. Listen to me, and pay strict attention, and I will speak."

" Yes, Reverend Sir," said Subhadda, the wandering ascetic, to The Blessed One in assent. And The Blessed One spoke as follows:—

"Subhadda, in whatever doctrine and discipline the noble eightfold path is not found, therein also is not found the monk of the first degree, nor the monk of the second degree, nor the monk of the third degree, nor the monk of the fourth degree; and in whatever doctrine and discipline, O Subhadda, the noble eightfold path is found, therein also are found the monk of the first degree, and the monk of the second degree, and the monk of the third degree, and the monk of the fourth degree. Now in this Doctrine and Discipline, O Subhadda, the noble eightfold path is found: and therein alone, O Subhadda, are found the monk of the first degree, and the monk of the second degree, and the monk of the third degree, and the monk of the fourth degree. Destitute of true monks are all other creeds. But let these my monks, O Subhadda, live rightly, and the world will not be destitute of saints.

What time my age was twenty-nine,
Subhadda, I left the world to seek the highest good.
Now fifty years and more have passed, Subhadda,
Since I renounced the world and lived ascetic
Within the Doctrine's pale, that rule of conduct
Outside of which no genuine monk exists, nor the monk of the second degree, nor the monk of the third degree, nor the monk of the fourth degree. Destitute of monks are all other creeds. But let these my monks, O Subhadda, live rightly, and the world will not be destitute of saints."

When The Blessed One had thus spoken, Subhadda, the wandering ascetic, spoke to him as follows:—

"O wonderful is it, Reverend Sir! O wonderful is it, Reverend Sir! It is as if, Reverend Sir, one were to set up that which was overturned, or were to disclose that which was hidden, or were to point out the way to a lost traveler, or were to carry a lamp into a dark place that they who had eyes might see forms. Even so has The Blessed One expounded the Doctrine in many different ways. Reverend Sir, I betake myself to The Blessed One for refuge, to the Doctrine, and to the Congregation of the monks. Suffer me to retire from the world under The Blessed One; suffer me to receive ordination."

"Subhadda, any one who aforetime has been an adherent of another sect and afterwards desires to retire from the world and receive ordination under this Doctrine and Discipline, must first spend four months on probation; and after the lapse of four months, strenuous-minded monks receive him into the Order and confer on him the monkly ordination. Nevertheless, in this matter of probation I recognize a difference in persons."

"Reverend Sir, if all they who aforetime have been adherents of other sects and afterwards desire to retire from the world and receive ordination under this Doctrine and Discipline, must first spend four months on probation, and after the lapse of four months strenuous-minded monks receive them into the Order, and confer on them the monkly ordination, then am I ready to spend four years on probation, and after the lapse of four years, let strenuous-minded monks receive me into the Order and confer on me the monkly ordination."

Then The Blessed One said to the venerable Ananda,

"Well, then, Ananda, receive Subhadda into the Order."

Then The Blessed One addressed the venerable Ananda:—

"It may be, Ananda, that some of you will think, ' The word of The Teacher is a thing of the past; we have now no Teacher.' But that, Ananda, is not the correct view. The Doctrine and Discipline, Ananda, which I have taught and enjoined upon you is to be your teacher when I am gone. But whereas now, Ananda, all the monks address each other with the title of 'brother,' not so must they address each other after I am gone. A senior monk, Ananda, is to address a junior monk either by his given name, or by his family name, or by the title of 'brother;' a junior monk is to address a senior monk with the title 'reverend sir,' or 'venerable.' If the Order, Ananda, wish to do so, after I am gone they may abrogate all the lesser and minor precepts. On Channa, Ananda, after I am gone, the higher penalty is to be inflicted."

"Reverend Sir, what is this higher penalty?"

"Let Channa, Ananda, say what he likes, he is not to be spoken to nor admonished nor instructed by the monks."

Then The Blessed One addressed the monks:—

"It may be, O monks, that some monk has a doubt or perplexity respecting either The Buddha or the Doctrine or the Order or the Path or the course of conduct. Ask any questions, O monks, and suffer not that afterwards you feel remorse, saying, 'Our Teacher was present with us, but we failed to ask him all our questions."'

When he had so spoken, the monks remained silent.

And a second time The Blessed One, and a third time The Blessed One addressed the monks:—…

And a third time the monks remained silent.

Then The Blessed One addressed the monks:—

"It may be, O monks, that it is out of respect to The Teacher that you ask no questions. Then let each one speak to his friend."

And when he had thus spoken, the monks remained silent.

Then the venerable Ananda spoke to The Blessed One as follows:—

"It is wonderful, Reverend Sir! It is marvelous, Reverend Sir! Reverend Sir, I have faith to believe that in this congregation of monks not a single monk has a doubt or perplexity respecting either The Buddha or the Doctrine or the Order or the Path or the course of conduct."

"With you, Ananda, it is a matter of faith, when you say that; but with the Tathagata, Ananda, it is a matter of knowledge that in this congregation of monks not a single monk has a doubt or perplexity respecting either The Buddha or the Doctrine or the Order or the Path or the course of conduct. For of all these five hundred monks, Ananda, the most backward one has become converted, and is not liable to pass into a lower state of existence, but is destined necessarily to attain supreme wisdom."

Then The Blessed One addressed the monks:—

"And now, O monks, I take my leave of you; all composite things are transitory; strive onward diligently."

And this was the last word of the Tathagata.

Thereupon The Blessed One entered the first stage of meditation, and rising from the first stage of meditation, he entered the second stage of meditation; and rising from the second stage of meditation, he entered the third stage of meditation; and rising from the third stage of meditation, he entered the fourth stage of meditation, and rising from the fourth stage of meditation, he entered the realm of the infinity of space; and rising from the realm of the infinity of space, he entered the realm of the infinity of consciousness; and rising from the realm of the infinity of consciousness, he entered the realm of nothingness; and rising from the realm of nothingness, he entered the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception; and rising from the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception, he arrived at the cessation of perception and sensation.

Thereupon the venerable Ananda spoke to the venerable Anuruddha as follows:—

"Reverend Anuruddha, The Blessed One has passed into Nirvana."

"Nay, brother Ananda, The Blessed One has not passed into Nirvana; he has arrived at the cessation of perception and sensation."

Thereupon The Blessed One rising from the cessation of his perception and sensation, entered the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception; and rising from the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception, he entered the realm of nothingness; and rising from the realm of nothingness, he entered the realm of the infinity of consciousness; and rising from the realm of the infinity of consciousness, he entered the realm of the infinity of space; and rising from the realm of the infinity of space, he entered the fourth stage of meditation; and rising from the fourth stage of meditation, he entered the third stage of meditation; and rising from the third stage of meditation, he entered the second stage of meditation; and rising from the second stage of meditation, he entered the first stage of meditation; and rising from the first stage of meditation, he entered the second stage of meditation; and rising from the second stage of meditation, he entered the third stage of meditation; and rising from the third stage of meditation, he entered the fourth stage of meditation; and rising from the fourth stage of meditation, immediately The Blessed One passed into Nirvana."

Extracted from Henry Clark Warren's 'Buddhism in Translation' and EH Brewster's 'Life of Gotama the Buddha'.

Ponte Vecchio, Firenze (Florence)

PSALM 34:2

"I will praise him for what he has done;
I will praise her for what she has made;
may all who are oppressed listen and be glad."

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

Original: Ponte Vecchio, Tuscany by inanga

Cosmic Serpent searches for Tuatara

gouache, acrylic, painted CD and NZ 5c piece (with tuatara) on paper 2006

220mm x 310mm

Found this also in storage so it too is...

FOR SALE POA

Coal Creek Falls, near Runanga

It is places like these that attract true contemplatives.

gouache, acrylic, oil and canvas collage on canvas board 2007

inanga

Kaitiaki: Cole, Runanga

The Beauty

detail from 'Beauty and the Beast'

Ms P modelled this - she wouldn't sit still so i temporarily removed her head and placed it on a pedestal for the duration of painting. Who voted it to No 1 on my Popular Photos - you were reading my mind. Lately i've been a bit testy with her - 'cos of this bloody site. i probably called it hog productions because i am forever making a pig of myself.

inanga

In the Battle of the Trees

overlay of my photographs and paintings
courtesy of picasa 3.6, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

A footnote from "The Book of the Hopi" by Frank Waters

"Tibetan and Hindu mysticisms, like Hopi mysticism, postulate a similar series of centers of force or psychophysical centers in the human body, in which psychic forces and bodily functions merge into each other. These "cakras", as described, coincide with those of the Hopi. They correspond roughly with the physical centers but they function psychically rather than solely physiologically.

The highest and most important center described by Eastern mysticism lies, like that of the Hopi, at the crown of the head. Known as the "Sahasrara-Padma", the Thousand-Petaled Lotus, it is associated with the pituatary gland of the brain. It is so important as a seat of psychic consciousness that it is regarded as of a higher order than the other centers. As in the Hopi belief, it is the "door to the Creator", through which consciousness enters and leaves.

Below it, centered between the eyebrows, lies the "Ajna Cakra" which corresponds to the "medulla oblongata" of modern physiology, forming the basis of the brain and controlling the sympathetic nervous system. [More modern thought equates this with the pineal gland - Ed.]

The "Visuddha Cakra" is the throat center. It corresponds to the physical "plexus cervicus" of the cerebo-spinal system and is associated with the respiratory system.

Below these higher centers lie two more centers which are also identical with those of Hopi mysticism. The first of these is the heart center, the "Anahata Cakra", corresponding to the heart plexus of the "sympaticus" which controls the heart and blood vessels.

Below this is the "Manipura Cakra", the Navel Lotus and the Hopi "Throne of the Creator", which corresponds to the "solar plexus" of the sympathetic system, controlling the conversion of inorganic into organic substances and the transmutation of organic substances into psychic energies.

Eastern mysticism describes two more centers below these which are not included in the Hopi series, the "Muladhara Cakra", the Root Center at the base of the spinal column, corresponding to the "sacral plexus" and "plexus pelvis", which stands for the whole realm of reproductive forces. The negative functions of rejection and elimination of elements that cannot be assimilated are associated with the "Svadhisthana Cakra", lying just above it and corresponding to the "plexus epigastricus". These two centers are often combined into one.

These seven centers are always enumerated in ascending order to that at the crown of the head, as they become successively less gross in nature and function. The four lower centers, it should be noted, represent successively the four gross elements that comprise man's body: earth, water, fire, and air. According to Hopi belief, the body of the earth and the body of man were both constructed of these same gross elements, in this same order. It may be briefly stated here that both Eastern and Hopi mysticism equate the bodies of man and the earth, and the centers with in man with the seven universes."

Nanosecond, Sorano

The image of the photo captured in paint...

acrylic, oil, gouache and gold leaf on paper 2007

Kaitiaki: Miles from ?

I wrote the following in my Plog - this is a good place to archive it:

'Don't you get the impression that everything is connected. The strand of all life has been stretched infinitely - far beyond our limited three-dimensional capabilities. The world wide web is changing that, we hope. We being those who give a damn about it all in the first place.

So the story here starts in Tuscany in a Dulux-Resene heaven of exploding colour.

At first there is the palette complete with freshly squeezed paint, then the photons from that ever exploding Sun, they hit your retina, psychotropic chemicals go hog wild doing the neuron-synsapse connection thing to the pineal gland, and whammo - you see the picture in front of you in a nanosecond - and at exactly at 4.10 pm in the afternoon as the clock on the tower attests.

Hence the name given to this piece - Nanosecond Sorano. It is now the property of Miles from Nowhere and he took the image I am talking about that you see at the start of this Plog. The other picture is The Artist's Palette - the actual palette was a gift to 'mfnw' (alias Cockroach) who also took the image of the palette and the 3-D Sunflowers. Amazing what a camera and a nanosecond can do. Thank goodness our right hemispheres, under the right harmonic conditions, operate faster than light (FTL).

It is sort of odd that a picture that depicts the exact moment of creation of a scene took more time than that to paint. Funny thing happened during the painting... I was on an enforced electricity budget so I was painting by two-candle power only. I painted the time on the clock when the painting was finished - 4.10 am in the morning, or about 12 hours' or so difference northern hemisphere Tuscany time from Downunder southern hemisphere time. Are you confused with this complete mix of the hemispheres, well I am!

Needless to say, in the wee hours of the morning I was engrossed totally in depicting the nanosecond that the Sun's rays hit the town of Sorano and that image your eyes and brain scramble to equal a painting in a Plog. Anyway, the paper moved on to a candle while I was swirling the scene and it caught fire. It took be a few seconds to double take and realise that the painting was on fire (or Phi-re). I stubbed it out with my sleeve and repaired it with oil, acrylic and gold leaf, The tragedy that was fixed occurred about half-way up the right-side of Sorano.

I knew i had finished this exquisite moment in my own weird quantum reality when i signed i in the Piet Mondrian mural on the fence in the left-hand bottom corner of the beautiful little town of Sorano, Tuscany. Mondrian was a great lover of Phi proportions, even though he presents his pictures as 2-D Platonic solids.

The life of a painting goes on - it creates its own universe. The painting was framed by a close friend of Miles from Nowhere. It went on another journey to Tamaki-makau-rau (Auckland) where it is awaiting the next leg of its journey through this 3-D stopover of Earth.

I feel I am writing these words in absentia, but I know I am not. I am about to Customize by world wide links on Spider Grandmother's intricately woven filament of connectivity.

Time to publish another Plog - painting log - and I hope those that read it get a kick out of it.'

inanga

Google Earth goes to Tuscany

snaps on iPhone overlaid with detail from painting 'Hinemoana o Te Pauanui', oil and acrylic on blind

This page is in honor of the genius of Hilary Hinton 'Zig' Ziglar (1926 - ), American author, salesperson & motivational speaker:

"An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartatr sauce with him."

"Failure is a detour, not a dead end street."

"Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific."

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

"The way you see people is the way you treat them."

"Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."

"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."

"Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves."

"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted."

"A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they have found a job."

courtesy Baedecker's Tuscany, Apple iPhone, inanga, Picasa 3.6, Google, SmugMug and Mozilla Firefox 2009

Rick sees Rick on his bike on Google Earth, Jville

Originally i collaged a number of Google Earth images, including 3-D views, my paintings (and a Miro that was an accidental CLICK) and the centerpiece was my friend Rick from Jville. This was captured on Google Earth street camera. What are the odds of this? A biker captured on his Triumph in his front yard? A split second in the Google-Earth-mapping process.

I finally managed to get a portrait shot of Rick rather sneekily on my Apple iphone. He has incredible facial tattoos (Maori: 'moko') and you can just detect these above his glasses. The miracle of digital phi-tography allowed the Google-Earth image of Rick on his bike to be reflected in his glasses.

Hence the title 'Rick sees Rick on his bike on Google Earth, Jville'

courtesy of inanga, Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox November 2009

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