When the World Seems to be Too Much, and Our Eyes Need a Rest

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

Let's look at this image with new eyes today. What colors do you see in "Sentimentality," ? Look at the bottom right edge of each and slowly scan the images from right to left. Can you see anything new? Tony  Martin always asks us to look at ourselves and our situations with new eyes.
The image in Tony"s photography seems to be pulsing with soothing energy. When the world seems to be rediscovering itself, and situations seem out of control, perhaps holding onto  "Sentimentality" might assist all of us.
Go to the Gallery link below and let your eyes rest.

Tony Martin's Vibrational Art

Vibrational Art by tony

   Steven Hawking has created a six part series that he calls "Genius." He believes that regular people can answer really BIG questions using their brains. In Episode two  three non-genius people learn that a tablespoon of sand represents  a model for 50,000 stars. Dr. Hawking sets up numerous small experiments that allow for the discovery of the Big Questions: like how big is our Galaxy?

   Dr. Hawking intertwines the discoveries of great scientists with his creative experiments to assist the non-geniuses into a questioning journey into "Infinity and Beyond," to quote Buzz Lighyear.  We learn that there are 300,000,000,000 stars in our Galaxy, and there are 100-200 Billion Galaxies!

   Does anything in Tony's work resemble small universes? Perhaps getting lost inside of one of these photographic creations will ease you mind and allow some of the trauma that we hear and see step aside so that we might rest in that peacefulness.

Steven Hawking's Genius
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hawking_genius_ep02_galaxy/counting-the-stars-in-the-milky-way/

Women Guiding the United State of America; Here is to Hillary

Venus Sans Arms

We take our measure from your example,
Sans arms you stand in dignity and truth.
While millions are destroyed in sacred fires:
Because they knew the secret.

300 years of Crusades wagged to decimate
The TRUTH!
Which lies re-born in every womb;
Garnering strength with each birth
Each spent placenta replenishing,
Nourishing,
Giving rise to the Phoenix
To reclaim her birthright.
Holies of holies;
Women of power unite:
Replace the arms with songs:
Joyful, honorable, and noble.
We’ve come to reclaim our rightful place;
And the men better let us
We Sojourners of the Truth
“Ain’t got no more to say.”
Rosalynn Rizzo-Moore
October 16, 2003

Love is the Answer. What is the Question?

     Pondering Tony’s “Love” and “Increase Love,” creations reminds me of some powerful images from two animation movies: “Shrek” and “The Lion King.”
      Elton John’s lyrics to “Can you Feel the Love Tonight,” reminds me of the scene when Rafaki hits Simba on the head because he has forgotten his origin story.
       Slowly read the quotations below and think about what you have forgotten.

“Can you feel the love tonight
The peace the evening brings
The world for once in perfect harmony
With all its living things”

Rafaki: Look down there.
[Slowly Simba walks to the edge of the watering hole and peers inside. His reflection stares back at him]
Adult Simba: That’s not my father. That’s just my reflection.
Rafiki: No. Look harder.
[Rafiki touches the water which causes waves that change Simba’s reflection into Mufasa]
Rafiki: You see? He lives in you.
Mufasa’s Ghost: [From above] Simba.
Adult Simba: Father?
Mufasa’s Ghost: [He appears in the sky as a group of stars] Simba, you have forgotten me.
Adult Simba: No. How could I?
Mufasa’s Ghost: You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of life.
Adult Simba: How can I go back? I’m not who I used to be.
Mufasa’s Ghost: [Now fully formed in the sky] Remember who you are. You are my son and the one true king. Remember who you are.
Adult Simba: [Mufasa’s ghost begins to disappear] No! Please! Don’t leave me!
Mufasa’s Ghost: Remember.
Adult Simba: Father!
Mufasa’s Ghost: Remember.

Do we remember our unconditional love origin?

Do we wish to recall that special connection with our creator? It may seem as difficult as Simba’s journey, but the journey always brings us back to the moment of creation.

Fiona, the ogre, from “Shrek,” finally demonstrate who she really is and receives true loves kiss that does not turn her into a beauty, but allows her to accept herself as she is.
In the transformation scene, see link below, Fiona remains an ogre. Brilliant light shines through her entire body, she is lifted off the ground, spun around and falls to the floor.
“I was supposed to be beautiful,” she cries aloud.

“BUT YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!”
Vibrational Art by Tony 

Yes, we are. We are all this shinning unconditional love. Tony proclaims this in vivid colors in his two masterpieces of love.

                                                                                    
                                                 Elton John’s Can You Feel the Love Tonight

Rafaki and Simba’s Reflection

Fiona’s Transformation