Remembering old friends -

"My Photograph of Chun"
digital collage by Mick Mather

I'm still playing around in the new toys wing of the Secret Visual Laboratory. This particular piece is a fictional character but as I so often wonder, what will you folks come up with for the story of our precious Chinese beauty?

Skin deep -

"Beauty With A Scarred Face"
digital collage by Mick Mather

This piece is not so much what it seems to be as much as it is an allegory for the way my world has been turning lately. Changes and transitions at the workplace have left me a bit scarred, on the inside, and yet there's plenty of beauty within all of that. In the real world, I've met and known a few women who've had physical scars and were some of the most beautiful individuals I've ever met. So, there you have it, in the end, even the emotional angst? It's all just skin deep.

Back in the saddle -

"Storm Warning"
digital collage by Mick Mather

This particular piece arrived about 10 days back, in the middle of my recent flu. At times like that, when I'm feeling so under the weather, a playful diversion is as much of a tonic as any medication I may be taking. Even so, the dark and moody nature of it surprised even me. Now that I'm back up to full throttle, as hinted at in yesterday's post, I offer this one up to each of you for other interpretations that might be evoked by our windblown beauty.