Let's Look At It This Way: Picture Blog

Monday, January 30, 2012

Picture Blog #25 : Shadow Art - Darkness At Its Best

by Fred Eerdekens

I covered Light Painting in an earlier post in this Picture Blog series. Let's try Shadow Painting this time.

Very often, shadows are pieces of unintentional artwork that went unnoticed around us. In the case of shadow art, it is an art form where shadows are deliberately cast by a 3D sculpture, creating an artistic image.

Some call it the art of silhouette. I prefer to describe it as 'darkness at its best'.

When the 3D sculpture is presented before you, you cannot imagine how its shadow is going to show up on the wall. It is only when the light comes on, you see an amazing imagination of the artist being 'drawn' on the wall.

Here are some great masterpieces:

by Fred Eerdekens

by Tim Noble and Sue Webster

by Rashad Alakbarov

by Kumi Yamashita

by Tim Noble and Sue Webster

by Shigeo Fukuda

by Rashad Alakbarov

by Tim Noble and Sue Webster

by Kumi Yamashita

by Larry Kagan

by Tim Noble and Sue Webster

by Rashad Alakbarov

by Kumi Yamashita

by Fred Eerdekens

by Shigeo Fukuda

by Kumi Yamashita

by Tim Noble and Sue Webster

by Kumi Yamashita

by Rashad Alakbarov

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

You are who you think you are. Think like a victor, not a victim.

I shared A Thought A Day (Part 1) earlier this year. Since then, 238 days have gone by and 238 daily thoughts have been gathered.

It is believed that we have about 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts on an average day and many of them are negative. If left unmanaged, they would shape negative habits and reduce our quality of life.

We need to be aware of our thoughts. While we can't rid all negative thoughts, we can have many more positive ones to influence our predominant mindset.

In this Picture Blog, I am merely putting down a tiny speck of what might have gone through my mind. Nothing is very new but it is always good to remind ourselves of the simplest and yet most often forgotten ideas.

I shall leave you with this quote and a collection of my daily thoughts taken from Vanilla Lenscape.

"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny." ~Mahatma Gandhi~