a sprinkle of faith

Rays of Light

“For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world”. -Marc Chagall

Google’s clarification of Chagall’s thought on stained glass windows…

  • Allows light to pass through, but with artistic transformation,
  • Creates a visual and emotional connection, rather than a barrier
  • Offers privacy without complete obstruction.

It’s interesting to compare ideas, like the similarity of storytellers needing to elicit curiosity by telling just enough to keep the reader curious and interested, but not so much that they know (exactly) what’s happening, or is going to happen.  

Maybe the same holds true with art – whether it be a painting, drawing, illustration or stained glass. That’s something I’m going to consider in the future.

Like illustrations that are not so literal – that make people ask questions. Maybe that’s what also leaves room for personal interpretation.

I’m not going to go into a long explanation about the process of my featured image here, but I used both Illustrator and Photoshop to add something to my faux stained glass collection. I used a third app for the paint effect – but that’s something I hope to phase out eventually.

Obviously it’s not glass – but I feel there’s a resemblance. It reminds me of photographs I’ve seen, where the interesting shadows that are cast upon subjects are actually the heart of the photograph, as opposed to the subject.

Anyway, I thought I’d share this now, rather than later – even though I’m more of a night owl blogger. I started it ages ago, and went back to it recently when the idea of the lines came to me.

She looks peaceful to me, like she is enjoying a much needed rest… and soaking up some colorful rays of sunshine.

That’s about all for now! I’m going to work on the story in a bit… and it’s possible I’ll have it done tonight. Let’s get that baby finished!!

Until later,
Peace & love!

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4 responses to “Rays of Light”

  1. Dracul Van Helsing Avatar
    Dracul Van Helsing

    I love your picture.

    A computer printout of the statement from Google on Chagall would make a palatable substitute for toilet paper 🧻 I guess.

    Or as Shakespeare might have said of the Google statement on Chagall, ‘Tis a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.”

    I was trying to think of the name of a prehistoric marine reptile for last night’s blog post so I typed in google what is the name of a fierce looking prehistoric marine reptile with fierce looking teeth?

    Google’s intellectually challenged AI replied with “While fierce is a subjective term, the animal you might be looking for is…”

    Fierce is a subjective term?

    I suppose psychopathic killer applied to Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a subjective term as well.

    Google AI would probably describe Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s culinary habits as “Strictly a matter of personal taste.”

    Google is obviously guilty of moral and philosophical relativism something that the Philosopher Pope Joseph Ratzinger (aka Pope Benedict XVI) warned against.

    Whose warnings were strictly ignored by his bozo intellectually challenged successor Pope Francis.

    Anyhow Google got the name of the prehistoric marine reptile I was looking for wrong as well.

    I asked the DuckDuckGo search engine the same question and they gave me the right answer right away with no condescending intellectually challenged snide remarks such as Fierce is a subjective term.

    I guess when your thinking or lack thereof is influenced by philosophical relativism, one is incapable of coming up with a true factual answer (as is often the case with Google AI).

    As George Orwell put it, True freedom is the ability to say 2 + 2 = 4 and not 5.

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    1. Janet Avatar
      Janet

      I guess you’re not fond of Google AI then hahaha.

      Well I was looking at it differently and kind of liked this answer but I was tired too! I was interpreting the interpretation subjectively. 😂🤣😂

      I guess I should try out duck duck go. My mom and son both use it, but – believe it or not – I’ve never tried it.

      Anyway, thanks for the compliment! 😀😎

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    2. Dracul Van Helsing Avatar
      Dracul Van Helsing

      You’re very welcome.

      I think you’d like Duck Duck Go.

      I find it better at finding stuff than Google and more accurate at well.

      I guess I was still ticked off at Google for their statement earlier that Fierce is a subjective term.

      Often the reason people fled from certain creatures and entities in the horror movies of the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s was because they looked fierce in their appearance.

      I guess if they had smartphones back in those days, they would have followed the advice of AI on their smartphones and got eaten, crushed to death, stabbed or roasted alive as a result.

      Jane was unable to come home to make dinner for Tarzan because those head hunters and their large cooking pot were not fierce looking according to her phone’s AI.

      A character in that never to be forgotten movie scene in the film The Cat People of 1942 where she was swimming in a pool in a basement and she sees the shadow of a panther lurking around is told by the AI on her waterproof smartphone that panthers are not so fierce so she steps out and gets ripped to shreds by Simon Simone’s character of Serbian woman artist Irina Dubrovna who shapeshifts into a panther whenever she is aroused (sexually), angry or jealous.

      And she’s definitely jealous of the woman swimming in the pool since Irina thinks the woman in the pool is spending far too much time with her husband.

      As for Google’s statement on Chagall, I guess there’s nothing wrong with it.

      I just thought of what Basil Rathbone’s character of Sherlock Holmes would say to Nigel Bruce’s Dr. Watson in the Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes films of the early 1940s, “You’re a man with a brilliant grasp of the obvious.”

      That would be my statement to Google over their statement on Chagall.

      As opposed to my more colourful response to Google on Fierce being a subjective term.

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    3. Janet Avatar
      Janet

      🤣😂 ok then. You’d be surprised at the amount of questions I ask google. I think he’s getting to know me a little too well. hahaha. I probably shouldn’t laugh but for now I find it amusing. I’ll try out DDG next time. 😎🙃

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