Monthly Archives: October 2024

Soaring above it all

 

 

Falcons from antiquity to present

 

falcon-nesting

Rare Peregrine Falcon nesting at top level of cbd building

 Collins Street, 367

 

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My cat was intrigued and fixated by the ‘live falcon feed’

 

 

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Feeding chicks at 7 days

 

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One of the falcons three fluffy chicks at 18 days old

October 2024

 

 

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Mother Falcon warning chicks to stay back from the edge

 

 

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Three young falcons with keen observation of their mother departing at 32 days, Their incisive vision can see rabbits at 3km

Maybe one more week away from fledging

 

 

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Young Falcons at 39 days on the verge of fledging

 

 

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Peregrine Falcon in flight. Their ability to reach 320 km/hr in a dive makes them the fastest animal on earth.

 

 

Land of Birds Niels Meyer

‘Land of Birds’ Niels Meyer

 

 

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Egyptian funerary stela

5th-8th century

 

 

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Exterior Temple of Horus, Edfu

 

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Statue of falcon as a guardian at the entrance, Temple of Horus, Edfu, Egypt

 

 

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Falcon on Sphinx flyby

 

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Ram headed falcon amulet

Holding shen rings in its grasp, a symbol of eternal protection, shen meaning “encircling”

 

 

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Carved ‘Tut’ chair

 

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Diwana Dreaming – “Eagles Sunset” — Nathan Patterson

 

 

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Art Deco Falcon poster

 

 

Mooroop-Yarkeen---(Spirit-Dreaming)

Mooroop Yarkeen—Spirit Dreaming

 

 

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Indigenous mural artist Tommy Day

Height 41 meters

 

 

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Bunjil Soaring

 

 

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Casterton wall art

 

Bunjil by Laurita Thomas

Bunjil by Laurita Thomas

 

 

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Ferruginous Hawk Full size sculpture – Simon Griffiths

 

 

 

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Grace Brown—-Bunjil the Powerful -–- The Creator

 

 

We could fly Frida Stiil Vium

‘We could fly’  —  Frida Stiil Vium

 

 

Angel of the Unknown -- Elena Markova

‘Angel of the Unknown’ — Elena Markova

 

 

Awol Erizku’s Mystic Parallax

Awol Erizku’s ‘Mystic Parallax’ embraceing fluidity and improvisation

2024

 

 

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Standing under Nefertiti — Miles Davis

Awol Erizku

 

 

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NGV Pharaoh exhibition

 

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Amenhotep III 18th Dynasty 1390 – 1352 BC

NGV Pharaoh exhibition, October 2024

 

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Pharaoh exhibition 2024

NGV – National Gallery Of Victoria

 

 

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Pharaoh event, 2024

 

 

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Brenton See wall art

 

 

Mural -- Brenton See

Mural — Brenton See

 

 

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Three vibrant Rainbow Lorikeets in a beautiful blue hued wall

Crisp

 

Mural Brenton See

Lush botanical mural by Benton See

 

Magpie Dreaming Contempoary Aboriginal Art Original Painting by Mirree

Magpie Dreaming Contempoary Aboriginal Art

Original painting by Mirree

 

 

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Elina Sarlin street artist

 

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Black Cockatoo – Brenton See

 

Yellow Tufted Honeyeater & Dusky Woodswallow Melanie Caple

Yellow Tufted Honeyeater & Dusky Woodswallow — Melanie Caple

 

Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo

Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo

 

 

Balga, or grass trees (Xanthorrhoeas) are ancient Australian native trees, with a lifespan of up to 600 years

Balga, or grass trees (Xanthorrhoeas) are ancient Australian native trees, with a lifespan of up to 600 years

 

 

Wanda Mumm

Wanda Mumm

 

 

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‘Parrots’  – Les Peterkin

 

 

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Liz Gullikson    Flying Blackbird

 

 

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‘Le Condor’ — Pablo Picasso

14.5 ins height

 

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Falcon Horus Amulet — Louvre

26th Dynasty (664—-525)

 

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Egyptian Revival Udjat Eye of Horus Falcon God

 

 

Recent addition to the academy's falconry program, Yeti, looks for his trainer after being unhooded.

Recent addition to the academy’s falconry program, Yeti, looking for his trainer after being unhooded

 

 

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Jean Derval – Fountain sculpture

 

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Black Cockatoo

 

 

Rise Above, steel, galvanized mesh, lights, 10’ x 11’ x 6’ triangular window installation, Flatiron Prow Art Space, NYC.Rise Above installation Flatiron NYC

‘Rise Above’ — Sarah Haviland

Steel mesh installation Flatiron NYC

 

 

Formes de l'invisible.-Daniela Capaccioli

‘Formes de l’invisible’ – Daniela Capaccioli

 

La danse. Portrait de Serge Lifar. Ellen Roosvall

‘La danse’ flying

Portrait de Serge Lifar –  Ellen Roosvall

 

What-the-Eagle-Saw-(Eagle-Bench),-powder-coated-steel

‘What the Eagle Saw’ (Eagle Bench) – Sarah Haviland

 

 

Carved-Hawk----the-maker

Hand Carved Sasano Hawk

The Maker

 

 

 

Fly me to the moon — Marvin Gaye

 

 

Marvin Gaye’s iconic 70s album “What’s Going On” is presented as a visual album for its 50th anniversary.

 

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Portal Journeys

 

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Ammonite bronze sculpture with verdigris patination

 

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Royal Arch Trail Boulder

 

 

Entering a portal to a pathway of possibilities

 

Portals are highly symbolic of the numerous channels of discovery we can follow to experience our desired fulfilment. 

Every day we are reminded of their presence by the glorious spectacle of the sunrise, the light filtering through the countless natural portals, heralding the emergance of another dawn. The shifting shadows and colours creating a dancing dynamic for the perpetual movement of life’s chi. Portals represent possibilites and the pursuit of our vehicles to upliftment. Cuisines, fragrances, creativity, love, travel, imagination, fantasy, inspiration, spirituality are all portals we can encounter.

Natures portals that naturally exist sometimes become objects of worship, ceremony and reverance. A symbol of permanace and endurance, openess and belief , transition and initiation. Doors, gates, dreams and conscioussness also can act as portals. They can also represent a magical pathway as a test of strength, courage, or wisdom.

 A plethora of visual inspiration and interaction, inviting intrigue and mystique with this thought provoking phenomena.

 

 

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Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Three Obliques’

 

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Sheryl Zacharia- ‘Rocking Triangle’

 

 

 

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‘Eclpise Basket’ – Dragonfly Pottery

 

 

Tenuous Membrane-Thom Atkins

‘Tenuous Membrane’ – improvisational, intuitive approach to bead embroidery

Thom Atkins

 

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Barbara Hepworth  ‘Single Form’ 

1961

 

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Barbara Hepworth  ‘Single Form’ 

 

 

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‘Eye of the beholder’ – Mary Ann Prack

 

 

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Minoan Labyrinth Wall Plaque

Midnight Moon-Celtic

This seven- circuit labyrinth dates back to 1200BC in Greece. A single continuous pathway winds into its centre. This same design has been found in Europe (Ireland, Denmark, Finland and Sweden) and South American Indian Tribes as well as India, Pakistan, Africa and Australia. Tracing the circuit with ones finger was used to calm the mind.

 

 

Peter Bremers

Peter Bremers

 

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‘Holey Stone’  — I found this rock while swimming in the sea at Half Moon Bay, a Feng Shui enriched location.

Any stone that features a natural hole in it was regarded in the past to be a sacred object because it was created over extended time and is made by moving water. This makes it capable of holding the powers of the earth. The inherent strength of this gives it the ability for being a protection amulet and was used for attraction to the Elemental worlds. Magic can’t be cast on moving waters.

 

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Hag Stone

Worn in ancient times as charms for banishing illness, protection for pets, avoiding bad dreams and nightmares, good luck on the water, protection for the home.

 

 

Rearranging the dots John Newdigate, Ian Garrett vase

‘Rearranging the dots’ —  John Newdigate, Ian Garrett

 

 

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Red Glass Vilano Sculpture by KatzGlassDesign

 

 

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‘Richard Stratton’ — 1000 for Roses

 

 

Rigo Rivas

Rigo Rivas

Abstraction and knowledge represent great portals

 

 

Samarkand ovoid neriage vase Matsui Kosai

Samarkand ovoid neriage vase — Matsui Kosai

 

 

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André Aleth Masson – French ceramicist

 

 

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John Huggins sculpture

 

 

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Blackhole-less Galaxy

 

 

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Cupid and Psyche–Edward-burne Jones

1876

 

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The Poet by Ossip Zadkine is a musician who is half tree and half person

 

 

Eastern spinebill,-Nelson,-Victoria----John Eley

Eastern spinebill,-Nelson, Victoria—-John Eley

 

Empty-the-kiln pottery portal

Emptying the pottery kiln portal

 

 

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Erik Johansson  — .’Reverberate’

 

 

Femke Muntz-Goddess Selene

Femke Muntz- Goddess Selene 

 

 

Fortune-Teller-Art-Deco-Lamp

Fortune Teller Art Deco Lamp

 

Flower Portal-Fresh Cut Physalis The Flower Hub

Fresh Cut Physalis

The Flower Hub

 

 

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‘Rider of the flower moon’ – Michelle Blade

 

 

Gustavo Perez

Gustavo Perez

 

 

granite sculpture by Matthew Maddocks

Granite sculpture by Matthew Maddocks

 

 

Fat Mama by Alex Fekete 'Translucent, fragile, fluid yet hard, free blown Glass and its magical depths became my creative friends and explorer over a decade ago

Fat Mama by Alex Fekete ‘Translucent, fragile, fluid yet hard, free blown Glass and its magical depths ‘

 

 

 

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Akio Takamori

 

 

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Glass sculpture — Peter Mandl

 

 

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Greg Johns – transfigure 2

Shellcove Sculpture Walk

 

 

Hand sculpted ceramic lamp base or sculpture 'Clémentine' stylized face, stoneware with orange enamel

Hand sculpted ceramic lamp base, sculpture ‘Clémentine’ stylized face, stoneware with orange enamel

 

 

Janaina-Tschäpe--Chorale

Janaina Tschäpe — ‘ Chorale’

 

 

Aleluia Factory, Aveiro Model Jar

Aleluia Factory, Aveiro Art Deco

 

 

Intricately carved wooden doors in a temple in Kathmandu, Nepal

Intricately carved wooden doors in a temple in Kathmandu, Nepal

 

 

 

Koroit Nut Boulder Opal

Koroit Nut Boulder Opal

 

 

Mid Century Bertoncello Vase

Mid Century Bertoncello Vase

Italy

 

 

Moonscape

Suzeiki Moonscape stone

 

 

Necklace counterpoise with aegis of Sakhmet

Necklace counterpoise with aegis of Sakhmet

 

 

Manufacture Of Muranesebase Table Lamp depicting aquarium

Manufacture of Muranese base tablel lamp depicting aquarium

 

 

Marzena Szczepanska

Marzena Szczepanska ceramic vase

 

 

MC Dancers Michael Vaynman

MC Dancers — Michael Vaynman

 

 

Mên an Tol, known locally as the Crick Stone, in Cornwall England. Photograph Paul Williams

Mên an Tol, known locally as the Crick Stone, in Cornwall England.

Photograph Paul Williams

 

 

messiah-sculpture

My amazing Ginger cat ‘Messiah’ spent several days chewing on the cardboard, maybe inspired by the portals on the box. A commendable feline sculptural attempt.

 He’s also very creative vocally.

 

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Chichen Itza Kukulcan Pyramid during Spring Equinox. During this time, a shadow phenomenon draws the outline shape of the Mayan deity Kukulcan, responsible of creation and prosperity, can be witnessed.

 

 

Bamboo walk

Bamboo walk at the Crystal Castle

QLD

 

 

Lighting the Candle Within

‘Lighting the Candle Within’  — Suzy Birstein

 

 

 

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Mette Maya Ceramics

 

 

Peter Pincus

Peter Pincus

 

Portal to Another Time and Place Deborah Halpern

‘Portal to Another Time and Place’        — Deborah Halpern

 

 

 

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Rose Quartz Crystal embrace

 

Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta, pierced black glass vase 1955

Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta, pierced black glass vase

1955

 

 

Wandjina-cave

Indigenous Wandjina cave flanked left and right by the tail and head of a guardian Dragon

Grampians , Victoria

 

 

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Vintage vase, Faience Factory Włocławek

 

 

Wendy Severson

Ming green “Vitrium” sculpture by glass artist Larry Pile

Kessler Craftsman

 

 

 

Zanetti Murano Glass Chalcedony bimorphic sculpture

Zanetti Murano Glass Chalcedony bimorphic sculpture

 

 

Zeng-Gang

Zeng Gang

 

 

Shard-Fragments--Patrick-Crabb

Shard Fragments — Patrick Crabb

 

 

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Suzeiki natural portal

 

 

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Miss Costa Rica — Paola Chacón Fuentes

 

 

PastTimeRemembered Vase - Douglas J Fisher

‘PastTimeRemembered’ vase – Douglas J Fisher

 

 

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The Fountain of Life—17th Century Greek icon

 

 

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Tony Laverick

 

 

tulip-sunrise

Morning sunrise tulip portal

 

Tullio Crali (Italian, Futurism, 1910 2000) In Free Fall (In Caduta Libera), 1964

Tullio Crali (Italian, Futurism,  “In Free Fall (In Caduta Libera)”

1964

 

 

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Turkish ceramic figure

 

 

Arachnids follow certain patterns to build their webs

Arachnids follow certain patterns to build their webs. Excellent meditation portal

for breaking from past restrictions.

 

 

Kan Yasuda, Myomu (Key to a Dream), 2008

Kan Yasuda —  Myomu (Key to a Dream),

2008

 

 

Michael Lucero, 'North American Dreamer' 1984, slip glazed, earthenware

Michael Lucero — ‘North American Dreamer’ 

Slip glazed, earthenware

 

 

1960's red vase, West German pottery by Becht

1960’s Red vase, West German pottery by Becht

 

 

Melike Bag Ceramics Terra Cotta handmade Vase

Melike Bag Ceramics  — Terra Cotta handmade Vase

 

 

Moroccan Black Marble on an Oak and Perspex PlinthOumuamua 2

Moroccan Black Marble on an Oak and Perspex Plinth

Oumuamua

 

 

DESERT-PUEBLO-POTTERY

Desert Pueblo wedding pottery

 

 

daio-dharma

Daio Dharma Suiseki stone

 

Five-Towers

Cinque Torri Mountain -The Five Towers

 

 

BRAZIER---‘Holding-Fire’--T-Barny

BRAZIER—‘Holding Fire’ — T Barny

 

 

aborigine inspired art on a manhole cover in perth australia by ole reidar johansen via photopin ccborigine Inspired art on a manhole cover in Perth, Australia

Indigenous inspired art on a manhole cover in Perth, Australia by Ole Reidar Johansen

 

 

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Magnolia bloom September Spring portal, 2024

 

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