2-D world

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The world is continuously changing, a very liquid flow of time-like experience. Impermanence in constant manifestation with now, what is captured in this 2-D frame is all just a dream. As dreams imperceptibly shift moment to moment what then is real when mind is contemplated...only now ! Images of the garden I have tended for the last twenty-seven years. All Photographs Paul Skibinski artwork at www.paulskibinski.com

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Dark matter in all the blinding light, glaring illumination flashes of darkness swirl speckled rainbows dot the universe making it difficult for ones eyes to see the darkest dark the blackest of black the vessel forged of dark matter vast, empty, void containing all an alchemical vapor of cosmic light and darkness One does not exist as light or darkness simply essence in the void 23 January 2013 Paul Skibinski

This is the realm of the passing away. All that exists does not for long. Whatever comes into this world never stops sliding toward the edge of eternity. Form arises from formlessness and passes back, arising and dissolving in a few dance steps between creation and destruction. We are born passing away. Seedlings and deadfall all face forward. Earthworms eat what remains. We sing not for that which dies but for that which never does. ~ Stephen Livine from Breaking the Drought: Visions of Grace

Drawings before departure,melanoma and the gardener

The Brain tumors are progressing and I am struggling with drawing and reading. As well as mobility, weakness and numbness in my legs and right arm . The visual flashes that cross my right eye like multi-colored planes in the night sky. Words lose meaning… fingers lose feeling . Everything is a struggle, life is worth it all

Drawings Before Departing ' Clouded Evening Sky '

Drawings Before Departing ' Lizard Love'

Drawings Before Departing ' Afternoon Shadows '

#pen & ink #illustration #trees #melanoma

Rather than living a life of resistance and trying to disprove our basic situation of impermanence and change, we could contact the fundamental ambiguity and welcome it. We don’t like to think of ourselves as fixed and unchanging, but emotionally we’re very invested in it. We simply don’t want the frightening, uneasy discomfort of feeling groundless. But we don’t have to close down when we feel groundlessness in any form. Instead, we can turn toward it and say, “This is what freedom from fixed mind feels like. This is what freedom from closed-heartedness feels like. This is what unbiased, unfettered goodness feels like. Maybe I’ll get curious and see if I can go beyond my resistance and experience the goodness.”

Pema Chodron

Drawings Before Departing ' Fish Love'

#ink #illustration #fish #imaginary fish

kushandwizdom

Remember Brother You Are Dying we live in a world void of the acknowledgement of death our humanness is minimized by fear our hearts smaller in the attempt to control an uncertain outcome so much of life is our death our ability to truly surrender to life must include our death as the gardens death every winter brings life in Spring as the cycle unfolds if we fear death we fear grieving for the loss of those we love in the state of grief, of loss we accept ourselves and our own mortality we feel our own rawness as living beings I am struck by the Christian fearful of facing death forgetting Christ was put to death as a powerful teaching grief and grieving are a soulful and difficult gift practiced in heartfelt ways across this world like seed sown in abandoned fields flowers of joy and remembrance

Paul Skibinski

#grief #bereavement #living #death

Drawings Before Departing ' Tangled Black Melanoma '

#illustration #Melanoma #trees #cancer

Morning Observation as I opened a new box of Ritz crackers for the peanut butter and cracker craving... realizing the BEST IF USED BY date was long past my expiration date ! F*** You ! melanoma some times you can only laugh it feels good to laugh in the face of cancer do it as much as you can

Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths. Not these visible forms, your work is deeper. A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces. If you don't try to fly, and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become. Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots and makes them green. Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow? –Rumi Ode 2865 Trans. Coleman Barks

life with melanoma to let go is an epic endeavor work for a lifetime... learning to love peeling back your bones and sinu exposing your heart giving your raw experience life and passion letting it go back to all you meet put it back into the world

Paul Skibinski Drawings before Departing, the gardener and Melanoma

#art #illustration #poetry #death #melanoma

Drawing Before Departing 'RAVEN- Corvus corax '

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