Lightness of Being | May 2006

The day begins with a feather falling from a Dove.
The feather symbolised the established order of things for the ancient Egyptians. The Egyptian Goddess Maat personified this concept. Maat represented truth, order, balance and justice, and existed to prevent the Egyptian universe falling into chaos. For these ancient people believed that their universe should be an ordered and rational place.
Maybe this sign from above will set the tone for the day.

(0208) Posted on 5/20/2006 9:48:10 PM | Comments (TA)

1. Posted by Odon on 5/20/2006 3:12:11 PM
Beautiful picture. Sometimes isn't a simple task to keep the balance, even today.

2. Posted by (Nameless) on 5/20/2006 7:02:49 PM
A beautiful image Tony... I've been working on a poem with one of the lines being line " like a watercolor feather in the rain" I was wondering what kind of image might go with it. I wish I thought more like you .-)

3. Posted by stewart on 5/21/2006 7:12:12 AM
A nice delicate picture,Maat's idea of truth,order,balance and justice sounds good but there's not a lot of that in the world today.

4. Posted by Funny on 5/21/2006 10:03:19 AM
Beautiful picture and, beautiful idea

5. Posted by robertm on 5/21/2006 10:40:50 AM
beautiful image of lightness,and Maat, but I agree with stewart, there isn't much truth,order,balance and justice around, not least in Iraq -- robert

6. Posted by tony on 5/21/2006 10:47:06 AM
Odon, thanks, I agree, balance isn't simple. But even the notion of 'balance' is sometimes difficult to get your head around - wondering where the fulcrum is or even if balance is not like weighing scales, but a like a qyroscope, or maybe, these days, we can imagine a plane in flight, and adjusting the ailerons to maintain level flight and a straight horizon.

7. Posted by tony on 5/21/2006 10:57:01 AM
Greg, thanks. Your style of image-making seems to suit your poetry well .. if you had images like mine with your poetry some unusual tensions could occur - like a feather in watercolour rain ;-]

8. Posted by tony on 5/21/2006 11:08:59 AM
Stewart, definitely not a much truth, balance or justice in the world for me today - the Camden Market 'LongTimeMan' Gallery has closed down and the people have walked of with my prints and cards. No email, no phonecall, nothing, gone, I'm p*ssed off. I should have guessed that 'LongTimeMan' had a paradoxical meaning.

9. Posted by tony on 5/21/2006 12:44:39 PM
Funny, thank you, thank you.

10. Posted by tony on 5/21/2006 12:48:54 PM
Robert, yep, I think all these things are basically unatainable, they're just concepts. But at least we still have them as concepts that we can talk about and maybe even aim to achieve in our own lives.

11. Posted by Ivab on 5/22/2006 8:39:29 AM
Mmmm... a fallen stablished order.
"V" is for... Vendetta. Nice thought. Thanks for sharing. ;-)

12. Posted by tony on 5/23/2006 12:45:46 AM
Ivab, hi and thanks for stopping by .. and H is for Harmony!! ;-]

13. Posted by stewart on 5/23/2006 6:22:03 AM
So the 'long time man'gallery has ripped you off things like this don't do ones trust in people much good,lets hope Robert dos'nt do a runners with your camera(joking of course)

14. Posted by tony on 5/25/2006 12:20:24 AM
Stewart, yep I've possibly been ripped off. I've had no contact from him since he moved out of the market. My