Silence....it is another way of communication, sometimes more eloquent and articulate, then words themselves. Silence, is a need, an action with no action, but still hides such a tremendous strength of all the untold, of all those unable to be told, or unwanted. Nature, has silence, trees although working, do not utter a word, clouds too... Silence, inside us, between us, saying and hiding, building and destructing, an absence of words but not emotions.
This is one of the most difficult challenges to me, cause it is true easily for all of us to have depictions of nature, society, humans, but can we have images of the feelings we feel...if one needed to describe silence not with words, but only with images, which image/art creation would he/she choose, and is it possible to have the depiction of feelings with no words, this is the answer asked with this challenge.
It is a word society,the one we all live in, and although communication has even created an online universe, still we humans, lack in the art of emotional understanding.Maybe, words are just said to be heard, and not to be meant.
Silence, is an existence in our existence, and I am thinking, what is the look of your silence ?
The third gallery challenge has the simplest rules, just tag your post ''third gallery challenge'', have a description of your work, and what is silence to you, ΡΜ me, if you want, so as your works to be in the third gallery list, and that is all!!
I am in my silences so, if any among us is in the same situation, let us communicate through the silence of art works.
Thank you very much for your interest,
Be well, and have good summer swims!!!
(Image, Stathi Stathi, Fog)
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Who said God can be found in the silence between one's thoughts? I can't find it yet via googling or binging, rather. One of my favorite songs is The Sounds of Silence!
http://www.quotegarden.com/silence.html
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~Confucius
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. ~Walter Bagehot
Silence is a source of great strength. ~Lao Tzu
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment. ~Henry David Thoreau
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. ~John Lahr
The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom: Silence. ~Walter Bauer
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. ~Jean Arp
I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. ~Richard Steele
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. ~James Thurber
Now all my teachers are dead except silence. ~W.S. Merwin
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for—sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm... As a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all—and to me it is a sound—is utter, complete silence. ~André Kostelanetz
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then your low words will be charged with dynamite. ~Elbert Hubbard
best, libby
xxx
Thank you for the opportunity to show.
blessings,
Annie, trully, it is a difficult subject, but I know that you can do it!!
Shutterbug, I think that your images are full of feelings and beauty, images are from their essence a silent communication, and I am sure that we will rock in this one!! Thank you.
Algis, thank you for the information, never knew about this. I am waiting to see your silence!!!
Designanator, you are so kind, thank you so much for making this a tradition in OS, I know that we all can make this happen, and have the visual sight of silence!!
Libby, you brought so beauty in this theme, the quotes on silence are such a precious wisdom, as you !!!! Thank you!!
Nilesite, I have just seen your New York silence- stillness and it is a true insight both on the city and in feelings. New Yorkers here must thank you for sharing such a great place with all of us. Thank you so much, for making this challenge tradition happen, and with such a difficult theme!!! Bravo!!!
Matt, so thank you for your beautiful words. Fragilities, aren't we all, I am thinking... Thank you for being here!!!
Ume, it is so good to meet you and I have just seen your excellent work, the metaphor of the image with the feeling silence is so true, brilliant, and telling so much, just with this silent image. Such a great work, thank you so much for being in this gallery challenge. You made it happen, and your beautiful words, just made my day, thank you!!!
What a stunning image!
"All sound is born from silence and returns back to it."
Abraham Lincoln said, “Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” :-)
best, libby
Libby, I am gonna use the last one, so useful, thank you.
Kate, your contribution on silence quotes, so great, welcome home again!!
Erica, so difficult that we all must learn so many languages so as to understand each other, silence, and body language being some of them, thank you for reading!!
As an artist, you have difficulty clearly putting the line between the exterior and the interior.
On the borderland, the dreams are seeded.
Some in sleep are developed a bit, underground, in the nutrient earth of the Unconscious mind.
But the idea, the seed, the plant, the child needs sunshine.
Of consciousnesss.
Eyes bring that in. ears too.
Eyes and ears.
Photograph something that I never saw but knew I would someday see If I lived long and dedicated enough to the truth of Beauty..
it seems a ghostly woman's thigh area.
pubic hair a tree.
i am gonna have to
try to look again, ay
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After I was arrested in a PA commonwealth bank?
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My probation officer informed me? I skinny dipped.
I knew that. But, that was pre-war. I was war drafted.
I never knew the local cop Placed ` Youth On Dip List.
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I'll get assistance to Cut and Paste ` No Nude Photos.
I did get a new ` Pawn-Shop Digit ` Ay, I Take Photos.
I Visited a pond ` Lake-Calm-Spot ` Oho. Be Serious.
My Advisers ask `Farmer-No-Coo ` Act ` Eccentrics.
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I try . . .
Silence.
Shush.
Thanks.
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you have weaved wondrous web of silence over the Golden Dawn...
the dew breaks with the first few words of people
stuck in Eden without knowing it thinking
so nervously that something will go wrong
and making it go wrong
so as to make the world go wrong,
for the politicians, those scoundrels, they wish you to think
it is all going wrong
so you need them.
at the throne.
haw. there is only one Throne, and it is where You Now Sit.
Matt the chicken man.
“Afrodite, it is extremely hard for a rooster
to relate to the concept of silence.” A strutter of shakespearian bare stages, he, fulla fury and signifying something or other.
With your help dear gal I would like to Reinvent the English Language with me, to make it more modern and post post post modern too, and all IN between. This is your duty now.
Matt:
Our hens are continually reminding us of their vitality and that their vocal chords are healthy.
It is always so. The women wake the men.
And so the Prophecy says:
The beginning of the end of the old order starts in the heart,mostly.
Blake.
R♥
R
Art, the power of a poet is in his/hers voice, and silence is the last thing I would want for you. But to be honest, maybe the summer, maybe so many other maybes, I was in such a need for silence, but mostly I wanted to meet other with the same need. Thank you for reading!!!
Olga, I know...me too!!!
CMaaan, my image looks tasty...That is a new and such a beutiful comment for my work... If you were here, I would have given it to this so talented rooster of yours!! Thank you for being here!!!!
Fusun, your work, just left me silent, such a beutiful country, such beautiful images and activities, thinkings and feelings. The image narrative you gave to all of us, is like taking us all to a great and significant journey, thank you for this...!!!
JD, I just loved your latest poetic work, on how a father feels for his son, and all the emotions behind time flying.... Such a beautiful and sensitive thinking, thank you for sharing!!!
Swallowtail, good to meet you here, thank you for your beautiful words!!!
Kathy, I am missing this kind of communication, is like the other is you, and you the other, with just looking you can tell how your friend feels, what he/she thinks, I have lived with this connection and it is both liberating from the self, but also so liberating from all the commodities of verbal language..it is true talking, without uttering a word. Thank you for reminding me!!!
Tg Within, you are such a creative force in here, I would like to see your silence, even if it is colourful!!!! Thank you for being here!!
(as do most men)
Your first image is stark whilst being nebulous.
An unconscious male mind will point out that it is a representation of a Vagina,
A rather lovely one…
But Consciousness? Cannot say that this is what it sees so it sees otherwise.
It sees the delicate sudden focus upon some sticks, well defined indeed, but bathed in Mystery and of course sexual ‘symbolism’
It is the silence of the unknown coming, the fear of this unknown, the touching endeavour of nature (old trees) and weather (fog), and the mystery that we all want, and have in life.
Fog to me has this mystique effect, makes me feel mysterious, and winter is my everyday mood, so this image- which I very much like also- is, to me, a sign for the nature unknown workings..
Nature works in silence, we do not know what trees, mountains, clouds, earth, sky, hide inside, we only are able to see the surface, the rest, although, we all know they are there, are in a silent knowing...Still, the inside - the silent one- is the most essential, far more essential than the surface.
To me the meeting of the delicate, but still strong, fog with the delicate tree is one of the most interesting ... and it is a silence romance...just as humans in love, when they look to each others eyes, say so much, without saying one single world!!!
Your description, so radical as always, and thought provoking , thank you for giving both your time and your effort, for my work!!!!
perfect.
'Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm' (Aeschylus).
Silence can be a remedy, as Art can be, to many harms.
I wait to see & meanwhile I wish you best swims & lots of inspiration.
Mme, you are so lucky, you live in one of the most famous islands in the world, Mykonos, so good swims and a great summer, must go without saying for you. So glad to read you here, and meet you again in your beautiful thinkings, like in your latest article, on seisacthia, thank you for this!!