Illustration Friday: Spent -

"Selfportrait of the Artist As A Cleaned-Out Gambler"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... in a bet there is a fool and a thief ..."
- an old proverb

Mr Lucky -

"Selfportrait of the Artist As A Player"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... as the farmer who won the lottery said when asked what he was going to do with his winnings, 'I'm going to keep farming until it's all gone' ..."
- unknown

Columns of light -

"Trees on a Slope Kissed by Sunbeams"
manipulated digital drawing by Mick Mather

When it comes to my digital drawings, like this one, I feel lost somewhere along the road between mystification and understanding. The only way to get control of things is to work at it and work at it often. Since I don't do it often enough, this particular journey is likely to be a long one. Tonight's post is a piece that I rather like but I couldn't think of a title for it until today. It was suggested by the background music in a new game, called drifts, that has me hooked. It's simple melody is sweet, lilting, passive, gently falling down and if rays of light have a sound this would be it. I know that the only way to hear this looping little ditty is to start the game but, I warn you, don't play it! If you do, you'll learn that the black hole of time exists for real, right there in that little game. I MEAN IT!!! I'M WARNING YOU!!!