14 Replies to “Repossession”

  3. This brings me back to my days living on Snow Hill Road.
    There was an old shelter of sorts about a mile from my house. If my family wanted to go toward town, our usual route took us right past it. Looking to my right, I could see the peacefully decaying wood and rusted Chevy truck in plain sight. Even as a child, I always looked for it and was happy to see nature reclaiming (repossessing) the elements man has borrowed from her.
    Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

    Luke.
    http://lukerian.wordpress.com

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  5. Gretchen Del Rio – Crestline, California, USA – I first discovered the magic of water based colors when many years ago I began to paint with procion dyes on silk. I loved the unexpected quality of the process. It was so exciting to never be sure what the colors and water would combine to produce. It seemed as though the medium had its own passion. Painting with watercolors and paper is much the same. I love the color combinations and separations that occur spontaneously as the color floats on the water. You can never totally predict what effect will result. If you try to control the medium too much, your painting will be very tight losing its aliveness. The artist must be bold and decisive or the work will not be clear and fresh. It is really like a dance. It becomes a controlled folly in knowing when to let go and when to take charge of the direction that the painting is taking. The images that I paint reflect my emotions and are expression of my life experience. They are not extensively planned, but rather evolve as the painting progresses. I am always surprised by the end result since it comes into being because of what the medium and emotion has suggested. The paintings are from my heart and I always fall in love with the subject. I believe that we are all connected and, if an image touches you, it is because we all have the same heart even though our paths may be different. Most of all, painting what I paint makes me happy. The paintings are my own path unfolding. They are an opening door for me and contain my own passion for life.
    Gretchen Del Rio says:

    Beautiful

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  6. ivonprefontaine – In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms. I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders. I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs. I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry. I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry. I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning. Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate
    ivonprefontaine says:

    A lovely word choice to match a beautiful image.

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  7. Old barns are my favorites. Rainy days flatten the light but the moisture highlights all the cracks and crevices in the aged wood. I drive past a shed and an abandoned farm house on the way to my brother’s. I need to get permission to trespass, because these buildings are calling my name.

    I love this image!

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  13. snapitures – Cedar Rapids, Iowa – I am currently a Web Designer at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. My duties include, but are not limited to, writing HTML and CSS as well as creative design support. In the past I worked for Fusionfarm, the creative agency and sister company to The Gazette, writing HTML/CSS and offering design support for the internal company web pages, external client websites, and email campaigns; Previously at The Gazette, I've designed online ads - both static and Flash; building creatives for Facebook contests; and lending my eye during client photo-shoots. I am experienced in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and InDesign.
    snapitures says:

    Your photography is both beautiful and inspiring. Makes me want to grab my camera and play hooky from work today! Thanks for sharing.

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