tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85573106443137945162024-02-20T20:32:13.294-04:00The Pheonix in the Fire by Stephanie TihanyiA transformational journey through artStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-66252201094209335802018-12-05T16:22:00.001-04:002022-12-22T16:36:21.849-04:00Perceiving Electrical Fields of Flowers in Art & Latent Inhibition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="en-US">By Stephanie Tihanyi</span></div>
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<i><b>'The Electric Flamboyant</b>'</i> <i>2009 - Stephanie Tihanyi (acrylic on canvas 34" x 34") </i></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 19.04px;">'Flowers have sophisticated ways of communicating, that until recently were unknown, according to new research by scientists at the <a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/%C2%A0" target="_blank">Bristol School of Biological Sciences</a> . According to new research lead by, <a href="https://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/persons/daniel-robert(9fcfe7e7-8d78-424e-8f00-8e0799f37219).html" target="_blank"><b>Professor Daniel Robert</b></a>, "pollinators such as bumble bees are able to find and distinguish electrical signal fields given out by flowers. From their research they reveal, flowers produce bright colors, strong patterns and fragrances to entice their pollinators. Now researchers have found flowers have their own electrical equivalent of a neon sign. They create distinct patterns of electrical signals. Plants are charged negatively, due to being grounded.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bees on the other hand require a positive charge, up to 200 volts as they fly through the air; the bumble bee generates this in the hairs of their body. When the bee approaches a flower their electrical signals interact and when the bee leaves, the flowers electrical field is change for some time after. Researchers believe the flower lets the bee know the honest status of it nectar and pollen supplies, and also, how long ago, it was visited by another bee. The flower and the bee share an electrical relationship. It is also shown that electricity boosts flowers other tools too, such as color. Researchers are speculating if it is possible, electrical fields happen when humans and other animals interact with flowers also.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">"When you bend over to sniff a flower, will it change the flowers electrical potential?" - says Professor <b><a href="https://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/persons/daniel-robert(9fcfe7e7-8d78-424e-8f00-8e0799f37219).html" target="_blank">Daniel Robert (2013).</a></b></span><br />
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This pink/white Allemande is backlit by the sun behind it. I have noticed on some plants, (when the sun is low or when they face away from the sun) are illuminated by translucent patches inside, creating a geometric pattern of spots on the inner base of the petals and central stamen. It occurred to me that this arrangement of ’visual signals’ serve to guide the bee, like 'landing lights', to the reward of life-giving pollen within. Bees will forage till late in the evening and it is known that bees cannot see the color red but they can see ultraviolet light, it then seems to make sense that this is a perfect adaption by the flower.</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri";">For a decade in my artwork I have explored my passionate love of flowers, not only as joyful colorful objects but also on a deeper level, sensing them and viewing in detail how they are made. I began a series of large flower paintings in 2008 and its still an ongoing theme for me. Above, the first image is a painting I did in 2009 of the</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "calibri";"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "calibri";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delonix_regia" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Flamboyant Tree</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri";">(</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-style: italic;">Delonix regia</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri";">), also known as the Flame Tree. It grows all over my resident island of<b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" target="_blank">St. Maarten</a></b> in the Caribbean </span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri";"> It is one of the most strikingly colorful trees when in flower. The whole tree turns a vivid orange/red that can be seen for miles. Some color varieties range from deep red, orange to yellow. At a distance the tree is a mass of red color with small dots of white seemingly scattered over it. Many of our island artists have captured this global view of the tree, notably the well known artist <b><a href="http://www.rolandrichardson.com/" target="_blank">Roland Richardson</a></b>, making it his signature theme. I was more interested a studying single flower clusters as I have always been fascinated by the details of things.<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri";"> After seeing the research posted online in a news article 2013, I emailed <b>Professor Daniel Robert </b>and sent him a picture of the <i>Electric Flamboyant</i> (top of the page). He emailed me back and said he loved it and was delighted and said it was a great illustration to what he was talking about. He asked my permission to use the photo in his lectures and at the university. I said I was very happy for him to do so.</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; text-align: left;">The color is what is most striking of course but then you will notice the incredible detail of intricate patterns on the petals made by colors and by the flame-like vein structures. The whole cluster seems to tell you its giving off energy of some sort, that travels along the routes of the veins and is expended out to the ends of the plant, into the environment.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Being</span></span> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "calibri"; text-align: center;">so highly focused over an extended about of time, you become open to the flowers information, it can feel like the neurons are firing up in your brain, mirroring the flowers energy. Yeah, I know it sounds a bit nuts but that is how it </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">literally feels!. Its hard to explain to folks who</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> don't do that. Lol. I remember when painting the series, people would say, 'you painted a nice picture of flowers, but then you went and put all those lines all over it'. I have a blogger friend, <b><a href="http://talentdevelop.com/douglas-eby-resume/" target="_blank">Douglas Eby</a></b>, who says this is a trait of the</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://highlysensitive.org/" target="_blank">Highly Sensitive Personality</a></span></b><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; text-align: center;"><b> </b>.</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> <b><a href="http://talentdevelop.com/douglas-eby-resume/" target="_blank">Eby</a> </b>M.A./Psychology, he is a writer, researcher and online publisher who has a blog called: <b>The Creative Mind</b> at Psych Central. He has a name for such an states ; </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">latent inhibition</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">In his blog post: </span><span face=""roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.5px; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2010/10/highly-sensitive-and-creative-latent-inhibition/" target="_blank">Highly Sensitive and Creative: Latent Inhibition</a></span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> he states;</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">"One technical term for the personality trait of high sensitivity is </span><b style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #990000;">“sensory processing sensitivity”</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> – One study, for example, found that the brains of creative people appear to be more open to incoming stimuli from the surrounding environment." </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Another Psychologist </span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Aron" target="_blank">Elaine Aron</a></span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">, PhD is probably the leading expert on high sensitivity, or more technically, </span><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">sensitivity</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">sensory processing.</span></span></b><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> She writes </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">“About 15 to 20 percent of the population has this trait. It means you are aware of subtleties in your surroundings, a great advantage in many situations. </span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">“It also means you are more easily overwhelmed when you have been out in a highly stimulating environment for too long, bombarded by sights and sounds until you are exhausted.”</span></div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com2Saint Martin18.04248 -63.05483000000003817.921688 -63.216191500000036 18.163272000000003 -62.89346850000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-58184331803654624852015-08-30T20:17:00.002-04:002023-01-07T07:37:35.029-04:00New update on the current painting; Working in egg/varnish tempera<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephanie Tihanyi- under painting to current artwork</td></tr>
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Here is some new photos of the current painting. Excuse the light, I took it under normal light bulb at night, but I do paint in the day under natural light only. I have working to bring out new highlights on the angels wings and armor as well as the tigers face and plants. I am leaving the face and arm till later as these have to be done with higher sensitivity. <br />
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I am going to follow my hero Austrian visionary painter, Ernst Fuchs and try to imitate his use of intense vivid color back grounds. For me it would be a great chance to learn by practice his amazing technique (I have painted the white egg tempera under paint at the top and will continue a little at the sides. Below are two works by Ernst Fuchs<br />
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-21197889376700930392015-08-18T16:12:00.005-04:002023-01-07T07:37:12.468-04:00The Detail Obsessed Artist <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I had a thoroughly absorbing busy day alone in my tiny studio, doing what I love most. Absorbed in that timeless dimension, wandering free in that empire of detail.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under-painting in egg tempera <br />
and oil on new work -Stephanie Tihanyi</td></tr>
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(oil and egg tempera) Stephanie Tihanyi</td></tr>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I am working on new painting, putting dark lights into the red/gold duo-chrome of the under-painting to gain a sense of depth and relief in the foliage and corner of the angels wings, seen in this detail.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Next step would be to go over it again high-lighting with the egg-tempera (in the old masters of the Flemish tradition, such as Jan van Eyck), but that's a far off land for now. This ability to endure and even enjoy long hours alone hyper focusing on detailed work is a gift of my aspergers. For all the challenges that being on the autistic spectrum has given me, I would not ever, ever trade it for anything.</span></div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-29337263950211920842015-07-12T10:40:00.003-04:002023-01-07T07:36:40.168-04:00Autism, Shame & Society: An insider’s view<br />
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Published July 21st 2015 in the St. Maarten newspaper <a href="https://thedailyherald.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57109:autism-shame-a-society&catid=31:health-a-beauty&Itemid=66" target="_blank">The Daily Herald </a></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> When I was a young teen, a close
relative’s child died, leaving behind young sibling, who had just been
diagnosed with autism. I remember my father saying, “It was sad, but it was
sadder, the wrong one died”. He probably did not mean it, but the time I
thought it was cruel and I sensed the shame. I did not know, I too was on the
autism spectrum. This toxic shame permeates society, negatively impacting
on the lives of autistic parents, children and adults, in ways far worse than
their difference ever could. In an enlightened society, it shouldn’t be that
way, but it is. It is through societal attitudes, those of us who are
ADHD, dyslexic, or autistic, grow up, learning to feel shame for who we are.
Society has perpetuated a culture of fear, shame, and pity around difference,
often making it more of a disability than it needs to be. I believe this shame
is intentionally and unintentionally manufactured, often by those who profess
to care and that discrimination, against the differently abled, is
becoming the major cause of injustice and civil rights issues of our time.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">
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very differently, I never knew why. Far from being devastating, being diagnosed
was a relief that gave me validation for my experiences. It helped me
understand and accept myself enabling me to re-frame my life, in a new positive
way. It helped me forgive myself for being ‘stupid’, for being terribly bullied
(at home and at school), for being misunderstood, for always struggling to fit
in. It answered questions why being social, was always such a mystery and
such hard work. It helped me finally come to terms with a lifetime
self-blame and low self-esteem. Like many girls on the spectrum, I craved
friends but had few or none.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> I tended to hang on the edge of groups, in order to
learn the group’s social behaviors by observation and copying. I learnt to
disguise my lack of social skills</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> by being
invisible. Like many kids in today’s ‘special education’, I struggled in
school, except for art, but art had little merit in school. At 11, I was labeled
as ‘a child having below average capabilities’ and was put in the ‘slow-class’
after being bullied. Then one day, I stunned everybody by creating a huge 200
page folder of pressed wild flowers, in my summer holidays, I collected,
identified, pressed, catalogued and labeled them with their common and scientific Latin
names. People on the spectrum are an odd mixture of strengths and deficits like
that. Back then, the ‘slow class’ didn’t mean you got special education or extra
support, it meant they left you on your own. I finished school with no
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such terrible social anxiety and depression. Many jobs, were beyond my ability
to cope, because of sensory issues, even talking to others was difficult. Most
of my jobs when I wasn't unemployed were in cleaning and washing-up. I had
to practice over and over in my head sentences, just to be able to ask for a
packet of cigarettes in a store or a bag of fruit at the grocers. It was so hard
to get the right words out or intonation in the right order, together with the
right body language, without looking totally weird, frightening people
or irritating them. I memorized scripts for everything. Many
people on the spectrum do in time develop, abet atypically and later in
life. I eventually got better at engaging with people and even taught
myself many subjects I had missed in school, like writing, but art remained my
one special passion that I never had to work at. Looking back, I never imagined
I would be the person I am now, capable of doing what I do now.</span><br />
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also talked with other autistic people, read their books, articles, research
and blogs. I found a common experience and was stunned by a profound dissonance
between how autistic people viewed themselves, their lives and how the rest of
society views them, which was shockingly judgmental, negative, inaccurate and
unjust. Right from the start, from the time someone came up with the word
‘autism’ or ‘Asperger’s’, the condition has been judged from the outside, and
not from the inside, not as from how it has been experienced. No one really
knows autism is, but</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">most in the medical field believe it’s a disorder caused
by genetic defects or environmental harm, either way it’s a disease to be
cured, that the value of talents attributed to autism, does not outweigh the
deficits, and that autistic people and society would be better off if they were
not autistic. They see it only in its diagnostic terms, and purely through a
deficit model. They use negative words like 'suffers',' disorder', ‘disease’;
they make lists of 'symptoms'. Most all their research comes from child
studies, even today, adults are an un-researched mystery. The exclusion of
adult autistic voices from the process of knowledge production is ethically and
epistemologically problematic and has resulted in a horrendous lack of ethics.
I see, that society allows the use of stigmatizing and fear-provoking language,
to raise money for genetic research for a cure for child autism or even
elimination by pre-natal testing <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Emotive words are used in 'awareness campaigns
like, ‘horror of autism’, ‘epidemic’, 'devastating' describing </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">autistic
children as ‘lepers’, ‘lost’, ‘empty’,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">soulless’
and ‘tragic’</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">,</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> accumulated in the now infamous, 2009 Autism
Speaks video, aimed at drawing funds from big corporate sponsors, shows a small
child looking at the camera and a dead zombie-like voice saying: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">“I am autism. I have no interest in
right or wrong. I work faster than pediatric AIDS, cancer, and diabetes
combined, I will plot to rob you of your children and your dreams….And if
you’re happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails. Your money
will fall into my hands, and I will</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">bankrupt
you for my own self-gain,”</span></i></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> says the video campaign. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">These so
called ‘charities’, repel all protests and attempts by autistic adults to
have any say or voice in policy in their organizations and it’s not hard
to see why. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This negative and
false definition of autism that shapes society’s attitudes of autistics in the
21st century, as ‘scary’, ‘sick’ or tragic’, is being driven by big business at
the expense and wellbeing of innocent autistic people and their families. In
2011 of over $314 million that was raised, only 3% went into services support
and education and only 1% went into adult services and the rest into genetic
research labs. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The biomed movement is no better in its
unchecked abuse of ethics in pursuit of funding and the selling of 'cures',
many unproven and untested.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The point I make is, the
unethical, negative portraying of autistic people, has been successful as a
business marketing strategy. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Some of the most extreme Anti-vaccine and anti
GMO-crusaders are accused of upping the ante. I have seen the most awful
fear-mongering language, shock and awe tactics from this quarter. It’s from
this sense of injustice and autistic identification, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am drawn to defend the wrongful portrayal of
all people, who are neuro-diverse. The only way I can do that is to stand up,
and speak out, loud and clear. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In the last</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">
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more and more adults from all across the autistic spectrum, across the
globe, from all walks of life, scientists, parents, teachers, writers,
lawyers, are organizing to advocate for theirs and others human and civil
rights. By borrowing lessons from the Black civil rights movement, they
are advocating against abuse and discrimination. Best known group is TPGA
(Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism) and ASAN (Autistic Self Advocacy Network),
both are online. These are people who see themselves,</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> not a disorder, not broken or inferior, but as a variant
within the normal neurological<u> </u>diversity, of the human genome. Their
struggles, they attribute to psychological stresses of discrimination,
intolerance of their differences, lack of supports and the constant
perpetuation of negative myths and stereotyping. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Sometime ago, I wrote a piece in this
paper, trying to correct the many of the myths about people with autism and
Asperger’s I had read in it. The false myths of the lack of empathy, lack of
conscience, or lack feelings etc are wrong. Recently someone wrote about people
with Asperger’s having terrible relationships, of being unimaginative and
uncreative. Many people with Asperger’s marry; have children and have long
happy relationships, why? Because like everyone else who falls in love, we pick
and choose our mates, because they have a combination of
positive traits, that are similar to or complement our own. Unimaginative?,
uncreative?, I will leave that up to you. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">. I did not write this as a pity piece, but to inspire
others to stand up. To tell them its ok to not let others, who don’t know them,
define who they are. So you see the shame of autism, does not come from being
autistic, it comes 100% from society. Incidentally, that younger autistic relative
went on to university, to major in mathematics and speaks 5 languages. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">By coming out, I
take that shame and I am giving it back, it never really belonged to me, I
don’t need it. Finally at last I can accept myself and like who I am. I will
leave you with these words by Wired reporter Steve Silberman, author of 'Neurotribes", who
wrote in his book ‘The Forgotten History of Autism: ‘We are still trying to
catch up to Hans Asperger, who believed that the cure for the most disabling
aspects of autism, is to be found in understanding teachers, accommodating employers,
supportive communities, and parents who have faith in their children’s
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-1077251017438820222015-06-30T19:25:00.002-04:002022-12-22T16:34:15.026-04:00Commissined works: A portrait of Margret<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLynNwXEjQVhNm8FCXzxSflt1QEzUvENVTB6ahcTwjqBkOlO226ZL2m61u2w3NyPru9fTi4k0FQ45r6gs7S3xgpNfi7F22PET65AdpYFsqK_TzwyLWhEQ0AckNVbKyuKcdbcg3-98H848/s1600/A+day+with+Ruby+015.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLynNwXEjQVhNm8FCXzxSflt1QEzUvENVTB6ahcTwjqBkOlO226ZL2m61u2w3NyPru9fTi4k0FQ45r6gs7S3xgpNfi7F22PET65AdpYFsqK_TzwyLWhEQ0AckNVbKyuKcdbcg3-98H848/w322-h400/A+day+with+Ruby+015.JPG" width="322" /></a><span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">A step by step view of my painting a portrait of Margret, in the manner of the mid-14th, 15th century Renaissance painters known as Mische technique, an oil/egg resin based technique applied to a wood panel.</span><br />
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Portrait of Margret Step 1. The drawing is sketched in a titanium white-egg tempera on the red earth ground, that is painted upon a wooden panel<br />
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<span class="fbPhotoTagList"><span class="fcg">Portrait of Margret Step 2. The painting has been given a glaze of cadium yellow and more titanium white egg/tempera has been worked over the top, correcting and defining more selective highlights</span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotoTagList"><span class="fcg"><span class="fbPhotoTagList"><span class="fcg">Finished my portrait of Donna's mom, Margret, who sits in the garden surrounded by flowering West Indian cedar trees. Margret comes from Dominican Republic and is partly descended from Arawak (Taino) Indians.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A painting of Margret by Stephanie Tihanyi<br />
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</span></span></span></span>Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-17413759164107831522015-06-28T20:42:00.002-04:002022-12-22T16:33:43.111-04:00Artist Selfie at work <br />
A photo from the other week when I was out in the back painting a backdrop for a local dance school <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=186952111323341" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dance-Theater-of-St-Maarten/186952111323341">Dance Theater of St. Maarten</a> 's recital, 'Dance Till You drop". I make a little money doing local stage and theater painting.<br />
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It was fun to splash and drip with all the colors, as I am usually so meticulous and tight with my work, its great to ease up and splash it around.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-11960209686922393982015-04-07T20:06:00.003-04:002023-01-07T07:36:04.712-04:00My Letter to the Newspaper Autistics are not PychopathsRecently I wrote a letter to the newspaper. I felt compelled to write because I needed to correct some statements by a regular writer to the newspaper's opinion page, had made about people with autism/Asperger's. The lady in question often wrote quite nice articles about the helpful practice of mindfulness, which actually I liked to read, however, this time she wrote about people with autism and made the comparison of autism to psychopaths , ' the neurologically disordered' she called us. Here is my letter:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Broken- Hearted<br />
Machine - charcoal sketch by S. Tihanyi <br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">An Autistic’s
Reply to Mindful Comments by (Name Protected)</span></em></span></h3>
<em>"Please allow me a little space in your newspaper to respond to some of the
recent comments made by (name protected), about people on the autism spectrum. I
give the lady the benefit of the doubt and believe she is compassionate and well-meaning
but not aware that some of the facts she, holds are not totally accurate and that
their proliferation creates needless fear, stereotyping, avoidance and bullying
for autistic people by society. This can cause them shame, lack of self-esteem
and depression. I do not intend to bash the lady, but as a high functioning
autistic, feel I must set the truth straight, I am also backed up by facts from
the very experts she quoted in her article. She states that autistic people,
just like everyone else, can have low, medium or high IQ’s and the deficits and
gains of both for IQ runs parallel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very
good. Marriage with a partner on the spectrum can be work and a lot of learning,
for both. Yes of course this is correct. The problem is not about their lack of
capacity, will or lack of love or caring, its communication. I felt the article
was fair but parts were vague and open to misunderstanding, especially the part
about the perceived autistic lack of empathy and the comparison to psychopathy.
This part troubled me a lot.</em><br />
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<em>I quote the article: “The lack of empathy comes with some neurological
disorders, not just autism- the psychopath will derive some pleasure from your
pain, but the autistic will wonder what you are complaining about”, Their “(empathy)
“needs to be worked on in their youth so that they can learn to reciprocate
even if it’s just learnt behavior and does not come from the heart”. </em><br />
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<em>I take issue with this line as it could give the reader the impression that
autistics are ingenuous, false, heartless or lacking the capacity for feelings.
This terrible perspective has been used to justified all sorts of bullying,
discrimination and abuse upon autistic children and adults, whether intentional
not, because people believe we don’t have feelings like others. It’s wrong. This
misconception came about from early clinical research over the use of the clinical
word ‘empathy’. It has been noted by autism experts and attempts have been made
to address it over the years but the damage from a misconception around the
clinical word “empathy” still lingers, even among some health professionals.</em><br />
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nothing do to with how the person feels, i.e. whether they feel bad for someone
when they are hurting (as in sympathy), love or care about them (unconditional
love and altruism). It has to do with <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">understanding</span>
the emotional state of another person (cognitive), and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">responding appropriately<b>. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ability to recognize the emotional state
in another person relies on good communication. Autistics and non-autistics
communicate differently. </span></span>As someone on the autistic spectrum, I
can tell you that my difficulties in social situations, have absolutely nothing
to do with empathy – chosen or automatic. I quote from an online blog: "When I know someone else is
suffering, I can’t help but feel empathy for them. It hurts me inside sometimes
so intensely, I am very sensitive, if anything, often, I seem to have more
empathy than the average person. Consider this please, if someone told you, in
Russian, “I’m sad because my mother died yesterday”, you’ll only feel empathy
for their sadness if you understand Russian. If you don’t know Russian, his
statement will have no meaning to you and you won’t realize he’s talking about
a sad event. For autistic people, nonverbal communication is like a foreign
language, and we often don’t understand what it’s conveying. If I don’t realize
someone is sad, I won’t show empathy for their sadness. But as soon as they
tell me, in a way I understand, I’m sympathetic and feel for them, just as
anyone else would. (Whether I’ll know what to do to comfort them is another
matter)" </em><br />
<em>Certainly most parents of autistic kids object strongly to the portrayal
of autistics as unfeeling, unloving, and unlovable as well. “Empathy"
could be teased into two parts: 1) Awareness-empathy, i.e awareness of other's
emotions and well-being, and 2) Caring-empathy, i.e. caring about other
people's emotions and well-being. I also quote expert Dr Tony Attwood, who states:</em><br />
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<em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I think it is important to explain the misinterpretation of other
people’s suggestions of a lack of empathy for people with Asperger’s syndrome.
I think there are two factors here, one is that the person with Asperger’s
syndrome may not be able to read the subtle signals in another person in facial
expression, body language and gesture that would normally be associated with a
response of compassion or affection. Thus, if the person with Asperger’s
syndrome does not respond with a hug or words of compassion the neurotypical defaults to paranoia and
then assumes that the person with Asperger’s syndrome lacks care and empathy.
It is not that the person lacks care and empathy it is more that they didn’t/could'nt
read the signals or body language. Once the signals are recognized, the person with Asperger’s
syndrome can be remarkably kind and supportive. </span></em><br />
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One of autisms biggest researchers, Dr Simon Baron
-Cohen has also attempted to address this misconception that people have, of
autism’s lack of empathy being the same as the psychopathic/sociopathic lack of
empathy: He says,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> “I
want to return to the subject but with more information on WHY there is a
misunderstanding about autistic and sociopathic persons and why popular culture
tends to screw up portrayals of both. The key difference seems to be that in
psychopaths the 'cognitive' component of empathy is intact but the 'affective'
component is not. In autism, both components may be impaired, or just the
cognitive component. But their strong systemizing leads them, through powerful
logic, to develop a moral code based on 'fairness' and 'justice'. Psychopaths
lack the moral compass that most people develop using their empathy, and lack
the moral compass that people with autism develop using their strong
systemizing. People with autism spectrum conditions often end up as
'super-moral', developing a set of rules they expect people to live up to
consistently (such as honesty, fairness, duty), arriving at the conclusion that
one should 'treat others as you would have others treat you' because it is the
most logical approach. He also adds: In my experience whilst even adults with
Asperger Syndrome may have difficulties figuring out why someone else’s remark
was considered funny, or why their own remark was considered rude, or may judge
others as liars when they simply are inconsistent in not doing what they said
they would do, they may nevertheless have a highly developed emotional empathy,
caring about how someone feels and not wanting to hurt them. If they do hurt
them, it is often unintentional and they feel mortified when it is pointed out,
and want to rectify this. In this respect, they do have some of the components
of empathy.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><em>Many
people with autism also form very strong emotional relationships with their
pets, worrying about their welfare, and find that whilst they struggle to
‘read’ human behavior and human intentions, they can read the arguably more
predictable behavior of a pet. Finally, as mentioned earlier, the difficulties
with the cognitive element of empathy by no means leave people with autism
devoid of a moral code, and their strong systemizing can mean that they often
end up with a more principled moral code than many people without autism. Thank
you."</em><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-927982013388843162015-04-04T07:06:00.001-04:002022-09-04T04:02:39.739-04:00Walls of Ignorance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-40703458114982034112015-04-02T00:23:00.002-04:002023-01-07T07:35:39.241-04:00Autism Unveiled Project<em>We don't grow when life is easy, we grow when we have challenges, I like the saying: " Challenges are what make life interesting, overcoming them, is what makes them meaningful"</em><br />
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<strong>Autism Unveiled</strong>, <em>Voices on the Spectrum</em><br />
Counting down to World Autism Awareness Day, April 2, 2015 <br />
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The Autism Unveiled Project is a six-week project where people on the autism spectrum share their uniqueness. The kick-off was Feb. 18 with blogs by Dr. Stephen Shore, Jennifer O’Toole and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopayday. Each day through April 2, 2015, the Art of Autism will post 2 blogs from people on the spectrum sharing who they are. The people who have chosen to participate share their gifts, their struggles, and their uniqueness.<br />
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"Sometimes in life we discover something that changes us and our view of ourselves. To discover that, after so many years of inner confusion, doubt and incomprehension, that there is actually a quantified and measurable reason for why I have struggled to make sense of the social world in the way I have and I am actually not alone. <br />
<a href="http://the-art-of-autism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/The-beast-005-275x300.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The beast 005" border="0" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9484" height="320" src="http://the-art-of-autism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/The-beast-005-275x300.jpg" width="293" /></a>I have what is known as Asperger’s syndrome, now known as Autism Spectrum or HFA. Learning I have this syndrome has been a huge help in dispelling my lifelong confusion of why other people have the easy ability to do things I cannot, like have an ease and flow in communication between each other, that is often a mystery to me. How I either make people laugh or piss them off, without even ever understanding how; or how I am able to focus on a subject for such long periods of time without getting tired. People that do get to know me, find me smart and at the same time socially clueless. While others may totally misunderstand me or even dislike me because they are phobic of these differences" - Stephanie Tihanyi<br />
<strong> Read the whole article at Art of Autism:</strong> Week 6<br />
<a href="http://the-art-of-autism.com/stephanie-visionary-artist-over-looked-aspergers/">Stephanie: Visionary artist, over-looked, #Aspergers</a>Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-58968213081666144622015-02-23T21:53:00.002-04:002022-12-22T16:32:13.635-04:00The 5Day Art Challenge: Artistic Development <em></em><em>
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<em></em>It was begun online, on Facebook by my fellow artists of the Visionary Art community, (this is where we all connect and come together from our far flung and many times obscure places across the globe). The 5 Day Art Challenge. The one (artist) nominated, had to post 3 pictures of their work each day for 5 days. Each day they had to nominate another artist friend to do the same. We had to include work we did years ago, up until where we are now. It was a great exercise for me to frame my development by creating a simple brief timeline. Here it is from my Facebook page:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2) The Broken- Hearted Machine- by S. Tihanyi (all copyrights held by the artist)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3) My Grandmothers Yard- by S. Tihanyi (all copyrights held by the artist)</span></td></tr>
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Feb 19 Day One 5Day Art Challenge: Thank you fellow artist, Dakini for nominating me for the 5 Day are Challenge, where I get to post 3 works, old or new, for 5 days and nominate another artist to do the same. Here are some very early works back when I lived in Luton in the UK. I worked on the assembly line as a welder at Vauxhalls car factory. I welded wheel arches in the day and painted at night. 1988- 1990. 'The Owl & the Badger'- oil on wood, 'The Broken-Hearted Machine'- gouache and dry pastels on paper, 'My Grandmothers Yard, Pecs, Hungary, (with the old walnut tree)- acrylic on board' <br />
Today I nominate <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1376864794" href="https://www.facebook.com/brian.joseph.7549">Brian Lovebug Joseph</a> to take up the challenge.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2) Crown of 12 Suns- by S.Tihanyi (all copyrights are held by the artist)</span></td></tr>
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20 Feb Day Two: 5Day Art Challenge: Early sketch for a later painting (Angel and the FireCat) -Dry pastels on paper. 'Crown of 12 Suns' -egg tempera on wood panel. 'The Corn Goddess' -black & white sketch on board. These I did before leaving the UK, before 1993. After that, I did not paint for sometime. <br />
Today I nominated : Artist, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001892824477" href="https://www.facebook.com/quadridigio.curioni">Quadri Di Gio Curioni</a><br />
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21 Feb Day Three: 5Day Art Challenge: When I came to live in the Caribbean in 1993, I lost my connection to my home and found myself an outsider in an emerging country that was forging a nationalistic identity through a shared Caribbean heritage. I struggled with the feeling of being irrelevant and a non-belonger, but I found a place in producing works that studied the outer world of my tropical environment and nature's stunning beauty. 'Frigate birds by Coralitia'-acrylic on canvas, 'The Reed Diver'- oil on canvas, 'The Kestrel in the Meadow'- limited edition linocut print on paper. <br />
For todays challenge, I nominate: <a aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_17" class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1396443882" href="https://www.facebook.com/rosscotreb" id="js_18">Ross Trebilcock</a><br />
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Feb 22 Day Four: 5Day Art Challenge: Up until 2008-2012, I produced artwork to fit to the conservative, commercial art tastes around me, being told so constantly, that to be successful, I had to do what people want. So I did. Then the 2008 crash happened. Since then and till the present day, art buying dried up more every year, along with the art galleries. Cruise ship tourists grew, but spent rarely on art. It was a blessing in a way, because it made me face the fact I had lost an important part of myse<span class="text_exposed_show">lf as an artist. I had blocked my artistic development. Through a period of depression, I finally decided to listen to my own voice again and gradually introduced the surreal-ness back into my work, risking the chance of attaining general appeal or local marketability. I decided, I would rather be true to myself even if I never sell another painting again. ' The Old House in Marigot - limited edition linocut print on watercolor paper'. 'Flamboyant Flux' acrylic on canvas, 'The Rainbow Tree of Life'- oil on board. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3) I shall Fear No Evil-by S. Tihanyi </span><br />
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Feb 23 Day Five: 5Day Art Challenge: In 2012, I made a bold step of opening a small art gallery, because all the galleries were disappearing and I had nowhere to show or sell my work, Unfortunately it closed two years later, proving unfeasible. I felt very isolated and alone, partly because of the actual physical reality of working as an artist, but also because of the difference in the aims, objectives and nature of that art. If Visionary art is seen as 'Outstream or off the main by the Mainstream art world, here, its never seen at all. I know m<span class="text_exposed_show">ost people thought, 'why does she paint that strange stuff, don't she know she has no hope of anyone going to buy it'. Actually, I thought this a lot myself. This loneliness made me begin looking for others like me, others that would accept me. It was such a wonderful thing that through Facebook, I discovered the Visionary Art Tribe. At last, my people! A collective of people stretched out across the globe, a supportive fellowship of artists who have in common, a genuine love of appreciating and making visionary, surreal and spiritual art. These dedicated people are the real counter-current to that which is touted as 'modern art' by the present art establishment. At last, people who understand, what it is I do. Seeing the very high skill level of these artists, I knew I needed to go and study more. That spring of 2014 I went to Austria, Payerbach to learn painting techniques, <a class="profileLink" data-gt="{"entity":"240063699509237","path":"\/profile_book.php"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=240063699509237" href="https://www.facebook.com/VisionaryPainting">Old Masters New Visions: http://www.mischtechnikseminars.com/</a> from the 'masters of mische', <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=650805991" href="https://www.facebook.com/prjacobson">Philip Rubinov Jacobson</a> and <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1482292039" href="https://www.facebook.com/MrsNoBodyy">Mantra Cora</a>. I think its true to say this has had a big effect on my painting and the strengthening of my confidence and vision. 'Dweller between the Worlds'- acrylic on canvas. <br /> 'Cup of Abundance'- Mische oil/egg, I shall Fear No Evil'- Mische oil/egg.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'I Shall Fear No Evil' -by Stephanie Tihanyi (painting)<br />
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The title of my painting is 'Fear No Evil'. Before, I simply called it 'the beast' or 'the star' or something. I never really knew what it was going to be called because it was a work that came together and developed, as the painting progressed over many months of meditations. The recent atrocities wrought in this world drew back a veil on its meaning and nature of the words taken as the title, from the bible: <em>Psalms 23, verse 4 <strong>'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil'</strong></em> <br />
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The central figure of the <em>beast</em>, who stands proudly in the gates of purgatory. From under his flaming wings reigns a showers of blood, showing he sheds blood of mankind, where ever he goes. Behind him there is a trail of black flags of fanaticism, hate and violence. Central in the painting, in the back ground is the winged angel of death, who stand with sword planted firmly in front of him. A figure, a woman stands in the intimidating and dominating gaze of the beast but her attention is not there, its caught on a brilliant light, high above the mountains of the darkened valley. The light casts a path of rainbow hued rays. In spite of the peril of , rape, torture, slavery, death, she is safe from the forces of evil, with one hand holding white bloom, signifying purity of spirit, the star of mercy, guides the souls path during the darkest ravines on the way to higher planes<br />
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Still working on this one steadily, in between smaller works. Its coming along in its own way, I have no image of the intended look or content, just letting it develop on its own. Just recently begun to add an angel in the mid top section, it kinda of appeared on its own, I already know it will hang from above, holding a sword down as if marking the boundaries of heaven and hell. Still a lot more to do, but want to finish it, before I present it for viewing at a small opening evening in a local art café, in mid December. It will not be for sale there, but I would like to introduce people to the art work of visionary art.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-74710175233691941142014-10-06T12:36:00.001-04:002022-12-22T16:29:36.297-04:00Continuing the underpainting on the latest painting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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For me, to be an artist means being able to see beauty in this world but also being unable to be unaware of the tragedy of the world we live in. As my heart breaks and my outrage ignites over the massacre's, beheadings, slavery and genocide, while the world chooses to stand and watch turns a blind eye to the evil of a religion, I find my paintings becoming very ugly, they now have death, blood and war in them.<br />
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I have done some more under painting in the old masters Flemish tradition of egg tempera, this is over an ink and English red earth ground. I hope to have all the under painting done by tomorrow, ready for the first glaze of yellow. I have used my live model sketches for my figure and the plant is a tall frangipani-like, white flowering plant, growing in my garden, of which I am yet to identify.<br />
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-15263474021054070732014-09-26T08:04:00.004-04:002023-01-07T07:29:34.367-04:00The Beginning Of A New Painting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I have begun a new painting. So far, I have only just worked upon the under-painting, following the techniques of the old masters, instructed to me by my professor Philip Rubinov Jacobson, who was directly taught by Ernst Fuchs, the founder of the Viennese school of Fantastic Realism. I started upon a ground of English red earth and egg tempera mixture, and the began to work on the under painting in titanium white and egg tempera. This image to me is very powerful and instinctual. It requires a lot of energy and fortitude to draw forth this painting, a bit like cycling up a long steep hill emotionally. <br />
Sometimes you look into the light, sometimes you choose to look into the dark...<br />
today I work on under-painting a detail of my new work, it features the<br />
beast of the apocalypse , its about the beast of ones own apocalypse. Confronting our darkness of our past, needs a certain level of understanding (light) to be able to make sense of what we uncover, plus courage. I am fascinated with the darker side, it is a mystery, most times a tyrant, so a worthy opp<span data-reactid=".lg.1:3:1:$comment1485399048386121_1485460435046649:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".lg.1:3:1:$comment1485399048386121_1485460435046649:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".lg.1:3:1:$comment1485399048386121_1485460435046649:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">onent to confront. I understand its not a path for everyone. In myths it is the hero, that boldly walks into the depths of Hades to extract the treasure or wisdom or take back something stolen. To the ancient Greeks, the daemonic appears not only through elements “inside” the self—the passions, the blood, but also “outside” the self—in wind, rain, fire, animals. Plato understood, its the dynamic unrest that exists in us all that forces us into the unknown, leading to self-destruction and/or self-discovery. In Japanese Shinto, Buddhist tradition its known as theTengu.</span></span></span>Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-45325090023793820062014-09-26T07:46:00.001-04:002023-01-07T07:29:56.988-04:00The best book on Visionary Art 'Drinking Lightening- Art, Creativity & Transformation<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I received it at last, by ocean freight, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=650805991" href="http://www.rubinovs-lightning.com/">Philip Rubinov Jacobson</a> 's book <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=197169646959986" href="http://www.amazon.com/Drinking-Lightning-Art-Creativity-Transformation/dp/9057034921">Drinking Lightning: Art, Creativity and Transformation</a> Where he accounts his own journey into and discovery of the art and artists, of 'the invisible tribe' of Visionary Artists. A linage that tracks far back through the ages and across the globe. An historically important, a now steadily re- connecting tribe, who's existence still remains largely ignored and <br />
denied by the art establishment today.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-5223777565959846172014-09-23T09:55:00.006-04:002023-01-07T07:30:16.200-04:00My painting: Cup of Abundance is finished Its my first one that is in the new technique of oil/egg tempera of the Old Masters. A technique I learnt from Prof. Philip Rubinov Jacobson at the workshop in Vienna this year. Its on canvas and the size is 24X30 inches:<br />
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This is my painting, The Cup of Abundance is finished In the painting, the Peacock Colored Angel hold the Holy Grail to all who can sees spiritual light, traversing from afar into the realm of the Kingdom of Nature, where the laws of life and death are set in place, Souls, like moths flock around, drawn by the light and heat, desiring to be consumed by the flame of eternal love and carried to realm of softer, higher vibrations.<br />
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After reading <strong><em>The Conference of the Birds</em></strong> or <b>Speech of the Birds,</b> Written in 1177, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> by the poet <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid_ud-Din_Attar" title="Farid ud-Din Attar">Farid ud-Din Attar</a>, who is commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. It is a poem about the king of the birds (souls) leading them to enlightenment. I became interested with the symbol and tradition of the Pheonix.<br />
In Persian its known as <strong>Simurgh</strong> (<span class="nowrap"><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted currentcolor;" title="/ˌ/ secondary stress follows">ˌ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted currentcolor;" title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted currentcolor;" title="/ɪ/ short 'i' in 'bid'">ɪ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted currentcolor;" title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted currentcolor;" title="'m' in 'my'">m</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted currentcolor;" title="/ə/ 'u' in 'syrup'">ə</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted currentcolor;" title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted currentcolor;" title="'g' in 'guy'">ɡ</span></a></span><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span></span>; <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Language" title="Persian Language">Persian</a>: <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%BA" title="wikt:سیمرغ">سیمرغ</a> <i>sɪmorγ</i>), also spelled <i>simorgh</i>, <i>simurg</i>, <i>simoorg</i> or <i>simourv</i>, is a benevolent, mythical flying creature. It is sometimes equated with other mythological birds such as <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> <b>Anqā</b> (عنقا) or Persian <b>Homā</b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span lang="fa" xml:lang="fa">هما</span>). The figure can be found in all periods of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Iran" title="Greater Iran">Greater Iranian</a> art and literature and is also evident in the iconography of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Armenia" title="Medieval Armenia">medieval Armenia</a> . The mythical bird is also found in the mythology of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia and is called <i>Kerkés</i>, <i>Semrug</i>, <i>Semurg</i>, <i>Samran</i>, and <i>Samruk</i>.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><sup>[3][4]</sup></a><sup> </sup>The word was also borrowed into Armenian as <i><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D5%BD%D5%AB%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A3#Old_Armenian" title="wikt:սիրամարգ">siramarg</a></i> ‘peacock’.<br />
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in the Old Visions New Masters painting workshop, run by the visionary
artist, writer, philosopher and teacher, Professor </span><a href="http://www.rubinovs-lightning.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Philip Rubinov Jacobson</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">.
Prof. Phil, as he is known affectionately by his students, teaches the
traditional painting techniques of the Old Flemish Masters and early
Renaissance painters of the 14th and 15th century. These were artists such as, Botticelli, Jan Van
Eyck, Messina, Hugo van der Goes, Andre Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Holbein, Pieter
Bruegel and many others. These Renaissance techniques are still considered to be the
finest in the history of painting.</span> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Jan van Eyck-</em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em> Giovanni Arnolfini and his bride</em></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Leonardo da Vinci-</em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Madonna of the Rocks</em></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">I had long achieved a
measure of mastery with modeling paint and a high degree to realism in my work but
had for some time, struggled to find a way to achieve a greater depth, luminosity
and light. I had got the bright colors, yes, but my shadows seemed flat and
without depth, I needed to progress my painting technique. I read about the mische
technique after I joined the visionary art collective, called The Society of
Art of the Imagination, </span></span><a href="http://artofimagination.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(AOI)</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">. The founder is the British fantastic realist, artist
Brigid Marlin. Like Brigid, Prof. Phil, studied in Vienna under the world renowned
Austrian visionary artist, </span><a href="http://www.ernstfuchs-zentrum.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ernst</span> Fuchs</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> .</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em> </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The techniques of the old Masters were
considered lost to history by the 20th century and it was Ernst Fuchs, along with<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Arik</span> Brauer,
Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter, Anton Lehmden and Fritz Janschka, who began to
research the Old Master’s painting methods. All were students of Albert Paris
von Gutersloh. It was Gutersloh’s emphasis
on the techniques of the old masters, that influenced their painting technique
and a small revival was born among the visionary artists. 1946, they founded the </span></span><a href="http://academyofvisionaryart.com/information/visionary-art" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In addition to his own research, Ernst studied the manuscripts of <b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Max Doerner</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">(1870–1939) a German artist and art theorist, who
wrote The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting published in
1921. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doerner_Institute" title="Doerner Institute"><span style="color: blue;">Doerner
Institute</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Ernst Fuchs</em></span></td></tr>
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<em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></span></span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">After 1954, with Fuchs's
fame spreading in Europe and the UK , many artists came from America to Vienna,
including Professor Phil, and others, such as, Bob Venosa, Mati Klarwein, Joseph
Askew, Brigid Marlin, Bob Venosa, Herbert Ossberger, Linda Gardner, Clayton
Campbell, Hanna Kay, Sandra Reamer and Olga Speigel, and many others. They were
joined later by artists from around the world and a new World-wide Art Movement
was formed.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Mische
technique.</b> Is a method of painting with egg <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">tempera</span>,
used in combination with oil based paints and resins to render a luminous,
resonant realism. The egg yolk of the egg tempera is a naturally occurring <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">emulsion</span> of water and oil. As such, the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">old masters</span> found ways of extending the natural
advantages of its emulsion to create lean<u>,</u> <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">siccative</span>,
smoothly transitional and semi-transparent layers of paint. The visual effects
created by working in the mixed technique essentially rely upon the phenomenon
of light <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">refracting</span> through many subsequent layers
of paint that are luminous and jewel-like</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">On
Wednesday, June 11th, I flew first to Miami from St. Maarten in the afternoon and then in the evening, took the
night flight to London. I am not a fan of travel though I do like seeing
new places, but airports, train and bus terminals are hectic, busy, noisy stressful places, with delays, unexpected changes etc, and who the heck sleeps on overnight flights? I was glad to arrived in London on Thursday morning where I was met by my stepdad who drove me to my late mother’s house in Luton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> I had just enough time the next day to get some art materials I needed for the course
in the town center. These were things I couldn't get on my little island St.Maarten, such as a varied selection of brushes, oil colors, permanent inks and other stuff. At 2am on Saturday morning, I took a bus to Stanstead
and flew to Vienna very early.</span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The walk on the road to Payerbach</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> from Gloggnitz</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">With instructions emailed to me from the Professor,
from the airport, I managed to locate the train to Payer-Reichenau. Apparently
there are two trains, an inexpensive slow one (snail ban) and a fast one expensive one.
Conserving cash, I took the slow one. I arrived in Payerbach around midday.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Payerbach is a little Austria town nestled in a valley below the Rax mountain range of the alps, about an hour or half drive from Vienna. Its famous for the </span><a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/785" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Semmering Railway</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">, and the town had been long been a vacation spot for the Austrian imperial family and other celebrities of Viennese high society, such as the famed Austrian psychoanalyst, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" target="_blank">Sigmund Freud</a>. </span><br />
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at the </span><a href="http://www.payerbacherhof.at/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Hotel Payerbacherhof</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> and once I got off the train it was just a little walk to the hotel. It was extremely quiet I walked into reception and found no one except a huge yellow Labrador laying across the hallway, he came to greet me in a friendly fashion. Eventually some one came out of a doorway. It was the son of the owner. He helped me take my luggage up to where I would stay for the duration of the workshop.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had booked the shared female dormitory. This turned out to be a very large room in the attic, with a number of beds in it.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtnt12RHEd_AtVWxiYO0ap6sikdXXGJ3eITrBZV5EMKT0UXyBs_8bGgwzidnxzmGJELSqVgwMJ0JkvQ_zB1gWhurneo1yucqMgVFEEj4qC7IwqulNGdiPGfsbc7kiDEPOXZHKccvKk9RA/s1600/vienna+048.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtnt12RHEd_AtVWxiYO0ap6sikdXXGJ3eITrBZV5EMKT0UXyBs_8bGgwzidnxzmGJELSqVgwMJ0JkvQ_zB1gWhurneo1yucqMgVFEEj4qC7IwqulNGdiPGfsbc7kiDEPOXZHKccvKk9RA/s1600/vienna+048.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I was the very first one of
the students to arrive, even the Prof and his partner artist Mantra Cora, were not
arriving till the next day.<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was nice weather to walk and explore but I was exhausted. </span></span>I just wanted to lay down and sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The attic</span> had beautiful old wooden floors and wooden beams, the roof was full of many
skylights, that gave great views of the mountains and surrounding area and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>plenty of light, too much light, actually it
was blinding with sunshine. A housekeeper came up the stairs pulling a ladder,
with black trash bags and tape to cover the windows for me. After seeing her small
frame, nervously wobbling around on the ladder; I ended up doing them by myself,
rather than see her injure herself. With a darkened room, alone, it
was utter bliss to take a nap knowing I didn’t have to take a plane somewhere
soon. Sometime in the evening, I went down to the restaurant and got a nice thick bowl of
Hungarian goulash with a glass of local red wine. It did the trick and I slept well.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Mantra Cora in the lobby. We only had time to exchange short greetings before they had to return to Vienna, to take back the rental car they had used to transporting here, all
the materials for the course. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">They would then come back on the train. During the
day I took a pleasant walk along the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarza_(Leitha)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Schwarza <em><strong>river</strong></em></span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">, admiring the mountains, meadows
and forested hills. I walked in one direction towards the next town </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloggnitz" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Gloggnitz</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">, following the little road along the railway track and then I took a walk later in the other direction into another town, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichenau_an_der_Rax" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Reichenau</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">. The weather was beautifully warm and sunny. In time I met another student Romanie who came from Ibiza and Dakini from
Amsterdam. We all ended up in the attic together, which we eventually dubbed the the
‘creaky attic’ on account of the ancient floorboards.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-55025751339786953172014-04-12T22:17:00.002-04:002015-07-25T14:54:43.537-04:00New paintings, new techniques<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sketch from dream<br />
-Stephanie Tihanyi <br />
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This is a some of the work I am currently doing. I have already begun to use what I have read, about the 'mische' technique of the old masters. I am very excited and looking forward to learning more about it when I go to the workshop, taught by Prof. Philip Rubinov Jacobson in Austria this year.<br />
This painting came from a series of sketches I did that were inspired by a dream of an angel I had and wrote about earlier. The Angel is giving the spiritual water of life from the holy cup. The angel is a messenger and it carries a message across a great distance as <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail of painting 'Cup of Abundance' by Stephanie Tihanyi <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail of painting 'Cup of Abundance' by Stephanie Tihanyi <br />
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seen in the far off spinning galaxy in the above right-hand upper corner. There is a lot going on in this work subconsciously, that is far exceeds my conscious minds ability to explain. Its like I have to paint it first to understand it later. I glimpse pieces and bits but have not got the time to go into it right now. For me, realizing the image, is something that has to come first. The angel sits in a lush shady tropical lowland, with waterfalls behind and a landscape that sweeps upward into forests and snow-capped mountains that merge with the stars, nebulae, and constellations of a light filled heaven. Also present in the landscape is a small local hawk, the American Kestrel, known locally here in the Caribbean as 'gli-gli, a name that came from the Caribe Indians.<br />
It means 'fearless one', a warriors symbol and a symbol of courage. In its claws it has a small iguana. This shows that all earthly life is also bound with the law of earthly death.The angel holds out the cup, full of the water of spiritual everlasting life, its beckoning light draws in moths from all corners of the darkness.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail of painting 'Cup of Abundance'<br />
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There's is much to add in this work yet so I will write again more in time as I go. I don't know why but I feel compelled to look into the myths Sir Gwain and the Green Knight and the Holy Grail stories to explain more. The work is still in progress and still in layers of various under painting and color-glazing and not the color of the intended final colors<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unfinished stages of my painting-<br />
detail of painting 'Cup of Abundance' by Stephanie Tihanyi <br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Since the beginning of last month (March), I was accepted into the</span><a href="http://www.artofimagination.org/Pages/Hist.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Society for the Art of Imagination.</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> The Society is one of the largest Fantastic, Visionary and Surreal artist groups in the world, with over 400 artist members in 23 countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5"><strong>Origin and History of The Society for Art of Imagination</strong></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">In 1961</span> a group of artists from England, dissatisfied with the way the art world was going, began to work together, calling themselves the Inscape Group. They were Diana Hesketh (1931--), Peter Holland, .Brigid Marlin (1936--) Jack Ray and Steve Snell (1946-). They worked together to experiment with different ideas and techniques. Their progress may be summarized as follows:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1966</span> One member of the Inscape group, Brigid Marlin, went to study with Ernst Fuchs in Vienna. She was able to learn the Mische Technique, which was recieved with enthusiasm by other members who began to work with, and teach the technique in England, Europe and America.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1968</span> Members of the Inscape group were invited by Ernst Fuchs to come to Wartholz Castle, to his Summer Seminar, where artists from all over the world came to exchange ideas, and work together experimenting with old and newly evolved techniques. The Summer Seminar continued for seven years under the direction of Wolfgang Manner, and brought about great art and great friendships.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1972</span> As artists from different countries worked to promote each other and the cause of fine art, World-wide Exchange Exhibitions were set up in different countries and the Inscape Group became known as Inscape International.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1973- 1992</span> Inscape International. went on to exhibit in Paris, Ireland, Holland, Sweden, Tokyo, the United States and Canada. Lectures and classes were given on the Mische technique in Europe, the United States and Canada,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1993</span> Professor Ernst Fuchs summoned some of the Inscape artists to meet at Grafenegg Castle near Vienna to discuss the way forward towards promoting the Art of Imagination. He asked each artist to work towards this end. He had by now founded The Ernst Fuchs Museum in the villa built by Otto Wagner, and was planning an International Museum for Fantastic Art at the Saxe-Coburg Palais in Vienna. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1994</span> Maurizio Albarelli launched a major Exhibition "Du Fantastique au Visionnaire", the largest of its kind ever to be staged, at the Zitelle Cultural Centre, Venice, which included the work of many members of Inscape International. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1996</span> Rosemary Bassi organized the first of several shows of Fantastic paintings and sculpture inclluding Inscape International Members at her Galerie Rolandseck near Bonn, Germany</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1997</span> Inscape International decided to expand their Membership and work to help to promotion of Imaginative Art around the World. To facilitate this it changed its name to The Society for Art of Imagination. Ernst Fuchs agreed to be Honorary President.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1998</span> The Society for Art of Imagination launched a World Premiere- the very first Open Exhibition for Art of Imagination. It took place at the Mall Galleries, London. Virginia Rogers, a patron of vision, pledged to the Society $10,000.00 every year to distribute as prize money. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1999 </span>The Erlangen Museum near Nurnberg, Germany, arranged a huge exhibition "Phantastik am Ende der Zeit" planned by Dr. Christine Ivanovic. The show was arranged in historical order , starting with the early woodcuts and engravings of Schongauer 1481, and Altdorfer c 1511, then on to the paintings of Bosch and Breughel, followed by Ensor and Munch, Max Ernst, Dali , and Paul Wunderlich. The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism was well represented, and the Exhibition displayed the work of many Members of The Society for Art of Imagination .The Exhibition formed part of a Symposium on Fantastic Art and attracted more than 10,000 visitors.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Martina Hoffman</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">1999 & 2000</span> The Open Exhibition for Art of Imagination at the Mall Galleries continued. This Exhibition had now become a very popular annual event, giving artists of Imagination a public forum, and a chance to win valuable prizes. Many artists have been discovered through showing there, and have been taken up by visiting art dealers. The money awards helped artists who were finding it hard to survive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">A Magazine called Inscape was launched by the Society, to appear twice annually.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5"> 2001</span> H R Giger agreed to be an Honorary Patron, and invited Vonn Stropp, 1st Prize-Winner of the Art of Imagination Exhibition 2000 , and other members of the Society to visit his home in Switzerland, and travel with him to the H R Giger Museum at Gruyeres. An Exhibition of Members' work at his Museum was discussed.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damien Micheals</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="style5">2001</span> Damian Michaels from Australia, a Member of the Society for Art of Imagination and Editor of the <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michel de Saint Ouen</td></tr>
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acclaimed magazine "Art Visionary", launched the opening of his International Collection of Fantastic and Visionary Art at the Orange Museum, Australia, which was opened by the Director of the Society or Art of Imagination. The Exhibition was recieved with great enthusiasm and praise for its excellent quality. A special workshop on the Mische Technique was also organised in Melbourne. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In June this summer, I will be attending a month long workshop in Vienna, Austria with Prof. </span><a href="http://www.rubinovs-lightning.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Philip Rubinov Jacobson</span></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">to learn the secret </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischtechnik" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mische Technique</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> of painting with layers of egg-tempera and resin/oil glazes, shown here below in the first stages by the brilliant master painter, </span><a href="http://www.madelinevonfoerster.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Madeline von Foerster</span></a><br />
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I will talk more about the Mische Technique and the up coming workshop in my next post soon. <strong>Please check out and like my Facebook page for updates on my current work <a href="https://www.facebook.com/artist.tihanyi" target="_blank">Artist Tihanyi</a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">one of my current paintings in progress - Stephanie Tihanyi</td></tr>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-56995479443240334202014-02-23T14:24:00.002-04:002022-12-22T16:27:25.771-04:00My Artwork on cover of New Book: Been There, Done That, Try This.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">book cover by Stephanie Tihanyi</td></tr>
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I am excited, honored and very happy to announce one of my paintings was chosen to grace the cover of a newly published book. The book has just been published by <a href="http://www.jkp.com/" target="_blank">Jessica Kingsley Publishers</a>. It has been co-written by world leading Asperger's (Autism Spectrum Disorders) expert, <a href="http://www.tonyattwood.com.au/" target="_blank">Dr. Tony Attwood</a> and community organizer, Craig R Evans, who himself parents a child with Asperger's syndrome and is also the founder of the online autism community <a href="http://www.autismhangout.com/" target="_blank">Autism Hangout</a>. The third author is <a href="http://www.bornwithaspergers.com/index.php" target="_blank">Anita Lesko</a>, mentor, advocate and author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Aspergers-Syndrome-Hands-Lemons-Lemonade/dp/1462030521" target="_blank">When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade</a>. She is also a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, in addition to, a published military aviation photojournalist and has flown an F-15 fighter jet and a Navy helicopter., she also has Asperger's herself. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'The Visitation' a painting by<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Stephanie Tihanyi (all copyrights held by the artist)</span></td></tr>
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The painting is one of my earlier works called "The Visitation", oil on Masonite ( 30" x 48"). The publishers felt it was best suited to illustrate one of the many books chapters: Accepting Change & Transformation as well as the actual cover. My personal feelings about my painting also coincide with this. I was trying to express the struggle and effort it takes of going through the process of transforming from a difficult past to perceiving and building a new future, full of hopes, possibilities and greater happiness and life fulfillment . I did this painting at a particularly difficult time in my life, when I felt very much in an emotional crisis. It was an emotional therapy for me, as is much of my artwork, it helped me to express feelings and thoughts I did not have words for, or even concepts to clothe them on. In the painting, the angel/child is balanced at the intersection of a corner of a building. One side is on fire, cracked and broken and in pain, the other side is whole and beautifully colored with the angel's one-wing. At the bottom of the painting, sits a <br />
cat on the door step, (we used to have a cat in our family home), like a friend, who is waiting to be let in. Above, startled birds rise up into a deep blue sky with a crescent moon, as if showing the way to liberation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'The Visitation' a painting by<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Stephanie Tihanyi</span><br />
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This book is the start of launching a mentorship movement within the autism community to help each other find success in life, this is an inspirational guide to life by Aspies for Aspies. Its a straight forward, clear, how to manual, chock full of perspectives, life stories and advise, not only just survive, but to thrive and reach your full potential, build self -esteem, be accepted for who you are, find support with each other and learn how to share your gifts with the world. I have not had a look inside the book yet. Its only just been released to the UK and Australian markets (21/2/14) and in the USA in March. I am really looking forward to reading this and reading all the wonderful advise , tips and support these other aspies are giving. Its great to know you do not feel alone and there are others that share, have struggled and found solutions for the unique challenges we experience, which is often invisible and not easily understood by others around us. I hope my copy will not take too long to get here. <br />
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From reading the reviews I can see it contains as many as 180 essays from 30 Aspie Mentors, including internationally well-known figures such as: <a href="http://www.templegrandin.com/" target="_blank">DrTemple Grandin</a>, <a href="http://www.autismexpertshore.com/bio.html" target="_blank">Stephen Shore</a>, <a href="http://www.aspie.com/" target="_blank">Liane Holliday Willey</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jennifer-Cook-OToole/e/B0083YIT0I" target="_blank">Jennifer Cook O’Tool,</a> <a href="http://www.larsperner.com/" target="_blank">Lars Perner</a> and <a href="http://bornwithaspergers.com/blog/" target="_blank">Anita Lesko</a>.<br />
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You can see more of my Visionary and Surreal painting on my website: <a href="http://www.stephanietihanyi.net/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-33812437925922015262014-01-24T20:28:00.005-04:002022-12-22T16:23:55.942-04:00Dweller Bettween The Worlds (re-edited)<h3>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The
simple, absolute and immutable mysteries of divine Truth are hidden in the
super-luminous darkness </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">of that silence which is revealed in secret. For
this darkness, though of deepest obscurity is yet radiantly clear; and, though
beyond touch and sight, it more than fills our unseeing minds with splendors of
transcendent beauty.”-</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_the_Areopagite" target="_blank">Dyonysiusthe Areopagate</a></span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></h3>
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As I posted in my last post, I would write something about my current paintings. Often its not easy to put into words or conceptualize the thoughts about my spiritual interior experiences. A visual art like painting, is a more natural language for the spirit, than the intellectual mind. While it is important to explain what ones work to others, its just as important to explain and comprehend in a conscious way to the self also. By the act of trans-muting my experiences to others, I gain understanding. When one is sensing a spiritual truth or awakening in spirit as I am, it is important to transmute this knowledge down thru the lower levels to the conscious human earthly experience to be fully aware. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis" target="_blank">Spiritual knowledge</a> is a river, it must keep flowing.<br />
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In my current painting you can sees a woman pouring out a dark liquid from a jug. It is an image I have been attracted to because of its mysterious beauty. It is said, spiritual and mystical knowledge comes into the mind and we create images or symbols as vessels to contain them. Where this spiritual knowledge comes from is hard to say, it seems all around, all directions. I feel sometimes like I am a bowl being filled with something, a kind of information or knowledge, so fast, I barely understand. Maybe not only do we create the symbols for our truths, we become them. I am an artist, I am conduit, I am not a spiritual master or authority, only one simple soul seeking truth, I feel is my purpose to record and communicate things I can only describe as mystical truths and spiritual gifts because as it is explained in <a class="bibleref" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+11%3A24-25&version=ESV">Proverbs 11:24-25</a> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">"Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered".</span> <br />
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In my painting a hidden obscured woman is pouring a dark fluid. This dark fluid spirals around her, causing all around her to be brightly illuminated, while the figure and water remain dark. Why is it dark, how can darkness illuminate? <br />
Sometimes the image of a woman (or a man), carrying the water of life, is universally known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_(astrology)" target="_blank">Aquarius</a>, the water bearer, or the self appointed world-server. This fits well with my own path as an artist and the deepening commitment I feel to it, not just as work or a job but as a duty and a calling to a path with purpose. This symbol has had long history in human cultures, from ancient Egypt, Sumerian and the around the Mediterranean. This image is also associated with the 17th card of the Major arcana of the tarot. <a href="http://www.irishtarot.com/tarot_interpretations/the_star_tarot_card_meaning" target="_blank">The Star,</a> a symbol of hope and promise. Common sayings like, 'follow my star, wishing on a star, my lucky star' etc., pertain to this. In ecclesiastical circles it is known as the star of the Magi. In the tarot card, some pictures show a man with a telescope, looking at the stars, and sometimes its called 'the astronomer', but usually it is a nude woman holding two vessels, from one she pours water on the ground to nourish the earth and the other jug pours water into a pool. Above her one large star and seven smaller stars shine. To me this mysterious imagery is reveling the path or space that connects the eternal waters of the subconscious universe to earthly consciousness, in order to draw its healing energies into the everyday world. <br />
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I have tried to show in my painting, the forces that dispense the essence<strong> </strong>of, the renewing waters of life; that which gives the means of
perpetually renewing its creations, after destruction. The Star is a card of
faith, and of hope, both in your own power, and in powers greater than your own.<br />
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"<span style="color: blue;">Alternative
names of this card are “<em>Daughter of the Firmament</em>” and “<em>Dweller
between the Waters</em>“. This card corresponds to the path that connects
Netzach and Yesod on the </span><a href="http://tarotcardsmeaning.net/major-arcana/tarot-cards-and-kabbalah-the-meaning-of-the-major-arcana/"><span style="color: blue;">Kabbalistic
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Aquarius".<a href="http://ann.skea.com/Star.htm" target="_blank">The Path Of The Star</a></span><br />
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In my painting the jug the woman pours out a dark fluid, a spiraling river of dark light into the waters of the firmament. Her body, the jug and water seem to be dark or hidden, but that does not mean it its absent of light, because it illuminates all that it contacts. It is what is known since ancient times as <a href="http://www.ehow.com/about_6621565_invisible-light_.html" target="_blank">'invisible light'</a>, the 'super-luminous' or <a href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/curiousq.htm" target="_blank">'quintessence'.</a> In the physical universe 'dark light' is merely type light energy wavelength beyond our visual range. You can detect the 'dark light' spectrum around the base flame of a candle, next to the wick, there is a dark area, then you see the visible white flame light, and then the amorphous aura around the white flame itself. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: xx-small;">This darkness does not deny the glory that flows from it. It is nοt the absence of light: rather it is 'more than luminous'. Or again, cοincidentia oppositorum, the coincidence of opposites (which in their very unity remain opposites): the darkness is simultaneously both the brightest light, dark through excess of brightness, and the blackest obscurity because it is 'Tran luminous'.<br /> Likewise the darkness does not deny the Word but reaches the Silence in the very heart of the Word.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Olivier L Clément -</strong><em><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/clement_4.html" target="_blank">The Roots of Christian Mysticism</a>;</span></em></span></span><br />
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I intend this work to have three parts, I have pretty much finished the first panel and need only to work some more on the center panel. The final panel that represents the physical universe of matter, is what I am currently working on. These </span>are the most detailed and the longest time I have ever spent on a painting. I have really enjoyed being so immersed in one subject, though the subject seems to develop many themes as it progressed. I have starting and am working on other paintings as well, this is my longest obsession so far.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">I will keep updates on progress and new insights as I work.</span></span><br />
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energy, nature of invisible light, in the following post soon.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925322878264240065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557310644313794516.post-66034368460963919972013-10-14T20:53:00.003-04:002022-12-22T16:22:11.996-04:00The Spaces in Between- Aspergers, Art & Central Coherence<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Spaces in Between, is a piece I wrote about how I use my art to help me
express, a personal experience or a story, an idea, or a conversation. I have no
comprehension of how it fits into the general ‘big picture’ of things in order that other people can relate to it. It’s important that other people can
relate to it as it makes us feel human and connected. There is a struggle to find somewhere
to begin, when you have no outline or basic framework, you don’t even know by
what name the general topic is called and it’s hard to even verbalize it if you
did. However you do know, you have a very, very real need, obsession or
passion, if you like, to understand and communicate something real. It’s a mystery,
this puzzle, yes; it’s like a jigsaw puzzle. This is the role of art. Through painting I have
found a way to gather these pieces together and build my ‘big picture, from the bottom up. While working, I can only see one piece at a time, they are not in
order and some of them may be missing. The act of painting them, holds them
fixed and recorded, so they stay present when an additional piece (of information),
comes along and they do not fade. Let me explain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Every artist has their own way of making their paintings. They start in a
certain way and finish in a certain way. The most widely practiced and
understood method is what is taught in art schools. The artist consciously
chooses an idea, emotion or concept, with a rough image in their mind beforehand.
They have a global idea of the subject and a sort of image of how it will look
and its contents. This is what is called ‘big picture thinking’. The general
rule is to first plan out a rough layout or a composition. Then add tonal and
color values and as work progresses, only adding the details in the final stages,
if needed. This is the most usual route in painting and also with any endeavor
one wants to achieve in life. Nature has designed most people’s brains to work
in this way. The ability to see the 'big picture', emotionally and socially is a cognitive
style successfully used by the majority of the population, it’s known as </span><a href="http://www.aaseinbcps.com/seeing-the-big-picture-central-coherence/" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">' </span></a></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.aaseinbcps.com/seeing-the-big-picture-central-coherence/" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">central coherence’</span></a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">.</span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span lang="EN">It’s similar to someone looking at the planet earth, first
seeing it’s a round ball, with oceans, clouds and land-masses, to leaves on
trees, fishes in the ocean and then to tiny microbes. However there is a small
minority, who because of their neurology, tend to think in a different way. They
are detail-thinkers. They have what is known as ‘weak central coherence’. On
one hand it benefits sustained focus for creativity and discovery but on the minus side it weakens
social and emotional communication and understanding. People, like me, are
fascinated with detail, even the details within the details have got details on them, its like a fractural heaven. I am a detail-
thinker with this cognitive style, I believe this is reflected in the
way I create my artwork. I had no formal art school training, but even if I
had, it would have made no difference, as I am sure I would of gotten frustrated
with the teaching style. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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have a strong feeling of wanting to express something but cannot get a general
idea of what. Lots of bits of info flood in but I don’t know how they fit
together nor can I hold them together. I cannot verbalize it either it’s just too much
and too overwhelming. One doesn’t just open the door, a crack, of the
submersible undersea at 10,000 meters and let a little bit of water in, the
outside pressure is too great.</span></div>
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brush, plastic bag, or sponge: anything that can make marks with paint. This is not unlike <a href="http://www.mirabilissimeinvenzioni.com/ing_treatiseonpainting_ing.html" target="_blank">Leonardo's technique</a> , which encouraged the viewer to search for meaning in chaos, Now I feel less anxious because, now there is stuff on there (the canvas). I may not
know what it is, but it’s pegged down. Something in the random markings will
look like something and catch my attention. I will work detailing it, a great
deal. Then I will leave it when it can give no more information. Again my eye will
be caught by another patch to work on somewhere else, and then another.</span></div>
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marks in sepia on gesso board - Stephanie Tihanyi</div>
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association with each other and I wonder how the heck can I make a coherent painting
for myself, let alone anyone else. But I have been here before and learnt to
just press on. As multiple images around the canvas are worked on randomly,
something curious and magical seems to happen in the spaces in between. There begins
to appear connections that have never been reveled before. It’s now, I really
begin to enjoy working on the painting. Something I had not been able to do before
now seems to be happening, almost without any struggle from me. As connections across
the painting blend, fusion takes place and new concepts and relationships are
created. The result is unexpected but carries the excitement of discovery. Sometimes
I imagine this process encourages the neuronal branches to make new pathways in
my brain. It certainly feels very therapeutic. It makes me feel alive and
connected. This victory over previous chaos and the excitement of discovery keeps
me painting again and again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I have found my own way to see the
big picture and it feels good. Isn’t this what we all want, to give meaning to
our experiences and be able to place them in a broader context of understanding.
Everyone wants to possess a perception of what is life and reality. My way may
be longer and take more time, but it is unique, original and it does make
sense. But I am not done yet. The finished work affords me an understanding
that only the emotional part of me understands. I look at the work, it makes
sense, it has meaning, but I cannot say why it feels right. In order to satisfy
my need to be understood by others and feel connection with the other, I have
to explain my work. Further understanding is achieved when I work at verbally
exploring my creation. I need to write about it. Before, the emotional part of
me has been satisfied by this expression, now the intellect needs to understand, (also
it’s easier for me to communicate on an intellectual level). I guess it’s the
two parts (emotional, intellectual), collaborating on a project, for the mutual
benefit of the whole, that makes the experience of creating art so beautiful
for me. I think whatever your neurology and cognitive style, you are better doing what you are good at, rather than something you are not.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">pencil drawing -by Stephanie Tihanyi (copyright held by artist)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>'Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.'</strong></em> <span style="color: #999999;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -Hungarian Biochemist (1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1893-1986)</span><br />
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Please allow me to share my drawing with you. I worked from a memory of a dream I had of an Angel sitting at a fountain well with a cup. </div>
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The cup seemed to contain a fluid essence from some sort of fountain that welled up from the ground into a shallow pool. There were lots of people being given out sips from the cup by the angel. I found myself at the back of the large crowed in the dark, as I had come to this place late. I hung about patiently waiting my turn and the crowd eventually diminished, and then suddenly I was at the front. I found myself in the illuminated glow of the seated creature. I looked around the place was empty, I was the last person. The pool was now drained but the angel still held out the cup to me. The cup looked empty and I held out my hand hoping there would be at least be a bit left for me. The angel completely tipped the cup up</div>
<span class="text_exposed_show">and one single drop fell onto my palm. I was saddened, I began to fret, I felt tears rising because I had missed out, what could I possibly get from this mere little drop. I watched in dismay as the drop fell between my fingers and began to disappear!</span><span class="text_exposed_show"></span> <span class="text_exposed_show"> Oh no! I put my head forward and dipped my tongue into the remains and a golden light burst into my being, transforming everything, flooding my being with peace and comfort. I looked at the Angel and it did not look up or speak, there was no need for words, the message given was clear. The gift of transformation was equal whether one got a droplet or a whole cupful, it would have been no greater of smaller. </span><span class="text_exposed_show"></span> <span class="text_exposed_show">I was given a lesson in this dream. Its not the quantity or how much you get or are blessed with, what is important is that you grasp and understand the essence of life, demonstrated but the act of the angel (higher self) and that essence is love, which in turn gives the power of self: transformation, renewal, intuition, reflection, subconscious and purification.</span><br />
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<em>detail of painting- 'A Mote in Gods Eye' by Stephanie Tihanyi</em><br />
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