SCULPTURE Galleries PAINTING Gallery IMAGE Galleries BONE CARVING Gallery LABYRINTH Pages INFORMATION Pages LINKS 01  02  03  04  05  06  07  08  09  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17 18  Orepuki Beach and it is a Beach with a capital B Down where the South Island breathes in, taking to heart great draughts of the boisterous southern sea air. It is rarely still on these coasts as great roilings of the tumultuous drop swathes of grey and wet across the landscape. You know you are alive down here, a part of the energy that flows the full length of the island. I have a bias for this place, it moves me, it has weather, it is very much alive down where the Roaring Forties offer challenge to the land A couple maybe, or two at least It's the light you know, that makes a scene, not so much the idea it is this or that. Just a span of reflect and refract coagulated into forms we feel we know as they ripple through our consciousness. Of course there could be a question mark over all that but yet again it is your choice, you decide. Threading ones way through the maze Dave led me to here, then pointed a path through the labyrinth way. It seems to me we each create our own labyrinth way, confined by rules and reg's, twists and turns, so involved and confined we forget to look up and see there are wider sky's above not so far away. I have to admit though there is something about a corner into the unknown, a tunnel to tempt and maybe, just maybe, a sense secure when being cradled in the arms of the earth........ and yet there just above, just beyond, the constraints are few the options wide. Satin sunsets to come Hazy distance in a softer light as the day draws towards a close. Gentle moments to drift through the sandy ways as the gaze extends out to sea, all signs pointing far away. Fading ember into the sands of night There is nothing quite like those moments before the dark, no two ever the same, but still a sunset yes, as they say "the devil is in the detail" or should that be "the data is in the detail" it amounts to the same thing for many I suppose  I wonder what all the sunsets stacked together would look like, they did it with pictures of people and the combined result was a being so beauty-full............. Maybe this is what awaits as we each expand to encompass the whole. Ahhhh feel that warmth There is obviously something to be said in favour of fur and fat particularly on a sometimes coolish day when one is adorning the ruggedness of rock and rift. No princess and the pea syndrome here that is for sure. Tricky twinnings amongst the monoliths I am sure that amongst this lot somewhere there is a metaphor for what is happening to society in the wider sense. I will let you ponder that then while I wonder how far that fell, how many corners bounced upon, to end up looking like that. Softness surrounds the definition There is little in this that is actually soft except maybe the vision, (or the mind with age), so yet again I am reminded of the beauty and wonder to be found in forms of that which many would discard in disgust. Sometimes it pays to look a little closer at the worlds within. 01  02  03  04  05  06  07  08  09  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17 18