Self portrait

Light will become tangible. 

when we publicly express the heart and sign our response.
 - Tomas Karkalas

What next?

What next?

The artists are free despite the situation they live in because the fine arts are the personal attitude, the artist's attitude on life, not his stuff for a living . 

memory

photo prompt: who hides under the like?

photo prompt Love's Test by Tomas Karkalas

The freedom to talk what you want is a great achievement, yet the joy needs the listeners. The posts without the comments threaten. So I put the photo prompt  Love‘s Test.  Speak your mind, who hides  under the "like" stats?  Who prefer anonymity to the word that changes what we see in the picture currently?

The world is a dangerous place.
Not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

My eye was caught by a phrase Book of Questions. Oh! I like such books. I see them as the wondrous mirrors because the questions gift an opportunity to discover oneself in the raised issues and thus to escape the current boredom that should be described as the penalty for past silence. As I hear the questions, I sense myself on a heaven-sent Ferris Wheel with all my past underfoot. It is hard to re-view the situations when I was not brave enough to voice my mind publicly and thus exchanged the character‘s status to the watcher‘s safety...The questions wake up and challenge.

a shield against self pity

a shield against self pity by Tomas Karkalas

The picture reflected my passing, the farewell. 

The peaceful farewell.

Therefore I questioned myself  

Have I the right to smear the colorful  illusions of my digital paintings 

by adding the information about myself, the hand that kept the paintbrush?

We may pass by the flowers without mentioning them but that doesn't mean the flowers didn't exist. The same apply to all the sick. 

While talking with my windowsill I have grasped that people are used to note those

 who shout loudly and ignore those who just patiently look through the window. 

The artists retire and leave their crafts to others but life do not stop therefore. 

The flowers are the shields against self pity. 

Freedom from worry.

I have read "the primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it“ That‘s the common knowledge. So I looked around to check my day. The awareness of discount price looked more important than the benefit of the meditation. That was strange yet true.
On the other hand, what looked like the confusing situation provided a lot of opportunities for joy. You and I were free to follow either the world‘s example or the spiritual powers.
We are free. What a glorious view!



 

The Cost

The scientists made clear that words and music affect the water

THE COST  (2012) photo created by Tomas Karkalas

How do we deal with that knowledge?
How does our blogging (the words we leave) affect us ourselves?

We follow the busy path from Cocoon to te Butterfly, so let be careful

my colors

Does failure in marketing make the picture into the no-good, or is it just a test of the artist‘ faithfulness? What is a Waste of Time?

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weeping landscape

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The picture Weeping Landscape talks about my surrounding, yet the artwork reflects much more than just my personal being. The digital painting stresses the need of viewer's personification with the image for the discovery of light that has the magic power to illuminate the path he takes. The image looks like abstract painting just at first glimpse.

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my inner critic

As what you see above was titled as the  inner critic, my artistic work was done, Tomas Karkalas's  picture became ready for the sharing with you.  Hope you will enjoy this artwork and let me know your  mind. Thank you.

as curiosity peeps back

While painting, I followed the dream - just enjoyed the vision and everything looked OK .... Yet the curiosity peeped back, and the sorrowful musings blurbed the cheerful artwork - I inquired myself either need  my creativity though anybody? Why should somebody pay for my luck?  If I haven't money to frame my works, that is just my own problem, isn't it? People enjoy the colorful canvases, but not the life of the artists. I too wish to talk not about personal disasters but the light that comforts and leads us all. So why do I grieve for the pictures that are buried in my archives?
While painting I identified myself with the blow of the wind, while writing the description of this handicraft, I discovered what should be weeded out of my garden - it is easy to explain the selfishness, but not to justify such thoughts. That's why I love to blog. It helps me to look at myself without any prejudices.


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scattered seeds

scattered  seeds - 2011 by Tomas Karkalas

You and I- we both are the seeds, my artworks too. They  are likewise scattered on a road.
Let's joke.  
The warms should like the area that was  depicted by my digital painting... the fishermen too. 
Yet what use such note to me? 
I have not the rod and thus do not need any bait. I just am ... yours sincerely ...Butterfly in Plaster

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backyard story

As I blog, it becomes obvious that the thinking without leaving the comments is just an empty word.

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secret of my wall

Aged care –such statement sounds well, yet do you see any of it in the picture below?

As for me, it was easy to draw my inspiration from this piece – it was enough to look at what was blooming underfoot, when the whole sky was overfilled with happy dong, for my eyes could shine like these of the passersby who where in a hurry to the fiesta of the ships that came to my city. However, does my painting reports any of these?

Yes, I like to paint- to forget myself in the wandering of my paintbrush on the canvas which graphic as comforts as inspires – releases me from the traps of worry for myself and thus opens the eyes of the heart. Then just unforgettable light transforms all footprints into the direct answers of life meaning – makes the metaphors into the ordinary building bricks. Stressful day thus becomes a dream, and the dream replaces sorrowful nitty-gritty experience with the blessing of the gratitude for the ability to respond. That is worthy the sharing and it is only the sharing that makes all above the reality (opens the door to the visual thoughts)

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blissful loss

The hackers made a mess of information on my profile and thus forced me to search for the remnants of the works on a web. I found the above pictures, met with the famous quote that I was used to cite in days when everything was OK :  
"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life"  
That was worthy to remember.  Frank Stella's saying comforted my grief - inspired me to strive to  be worthy the lost pages. The grasped meaning of the creative work converted current loss of my blogs into the happy encounters. The above proves  the blissful loss

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what was attacked by hackers

Have a look at the photo below and you will see what was attacked  and destroyed by the hackers.

The artist Renatė Lušis leads art therapy club "Modus Vivendi"

that is located in the Hospital for the mentally ill in Klaipeda. She says:

"Art therapy can add great harmony to life"

love needs no authority except itself

We trust that there is no such thing as no chance.

I was used to start all my posts on Modus Vivendi with the above message. But the hacker broke into my account and deleted art therapy blog  from my profile.
On the web, Modus Vivendi stopped existing. I thought that everything was lost for ever, but Don Andrew offered the hand of support to me. I got his email

"One thing I can do is help you see your posts, To see the posts on Modus Vivendi, click this link then CLICK ON Cached to see posts."

I did so and thus this post appeared. The lost revived due unselfish help of Don Andrew. I bow to him and the hot "Thank You" fills my heart.

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art of selp pity

Sometimes self-pity looks like only comforter. At a moment, it knocks on my memory door too.

Sorrow looks for the artworks that once embellished my blogs and therefore were deleted due spam issues (the hackers robbed me). Such way the picture above appeared here. This is the header of Art by Tomas blog. It represents everything that remained from my blogger‘s activity. Thus Time came to headstone below

Self-pity looks beautifully at times, but it builds on the inverted colors – unwillingly glorify the past (presents the loser as the artist to the world) and thus sets the traps... 

art response : blend of emotions for blogging memory

The blogging looked like love practice (the sharing of what comes from within with everybody on a web) Thus there were no wonder for my eagerness to start a blog... Art by Tomas was opened on Blogger, and blogspot.com became my address.

It was so till Google announced that this site was deleted .... Who deleted my blog? WHY? Does it mean some hacker overcame me?  No! Art of Butterfly in Plaster still welcomes you 

 

Blogging and love just look the same at a glimpse. If while writing, I am free from any restrictions, while posting I fall to dependence on search engines and their fans, the hackers. While  welcoming each and all on a web to a hug, I need to beware of the hackers....

Only the process of the writing may associate with the joy for the sake of joy.  The blogging should obey the road safety rules.

The picture expresses the mixed emotions, isn't it?

Yet the obedience gives a meaning to all writings in spite of the fact that it may look like the wild realm at a glimpse.

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unforgettable gift

All artist are dreaming about the freedom from the need to promote themselves to share their heart with the world.  Today my dream became true and proved the reality of the miracles. Dear indigoexpressions materialized my visions by putting my artworks into the video, and did that totally on his own initiative. That happened so unexpectedly and was just the unforgettable gift to me. Thank you dear indigoexpressions I am honored to share this video with all my visitors now. Just click on Art of Tomas Karkalas and we will meet eye-to eye.

Life lesson

Sad stories disguise as a colorful photo. And the pictures do not lie. The evildoer  ugly claimed my blogs as his own so that I can't log in to them anymore
Sorry for the black humor, but what more can I do now? Are we totally helpless against the hackers?

On the other hand,  the loss of my blogs helped me to check out what I appreciate the most. That is not my personal property ( not the blogs I keep) but the desire to communicate - the purity of our relationship.
Your comments on my posts dry my tears and enable me to remain on a web in spite of everything.

Today I am glad to add businessvartha.blogspot.com as a friend to my link list. 

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