#David Blackwood

[random-brushstrokes]

David Blackwood - Island Funeral (1967)

[enchantedbook]

'The Wreck of the Nickerson' by David Blackwood

[psikonauti]

David Blackwood (Canadian, 1941–2022)

Loss of the Flora S. Nickerson, 1993

Etching and aquatint

[thunderstruck9]

David Blackwood (Canadian, 1941), Dying Beach Object, 1966. Brush and pen drawing, 18.25 x 24.5 in.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Blackwood - Lost Party at Sea (1965)

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We must give up the pursuit of positive emotional states through spiritual practice. The path of awakening is not about positive emotions. On the contrary, enlightenment may not be easy or positive at all. It is not easy to have our illusions crushed. It is not easy to let go of long-held perceptions. We may experience great resistance to seeing through even those illusions that cause us a great amount of pain. —Adyashantivia Tricycle Magazine

+ "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." The psalm does not pretend that evil and death do not exist. Terrible things happen, and they happen to good people as well as to bad people. Even the paths of righteousness lead through the valley of the shadow. Death lies ahead for all of us, saints and sinners alike, and for all the ones we love. The psalmist doesn't try to explain evil. He doesn't try to minimize evil. He simply says he will not fear evil. For all the power that evil has, it doesn't have the power to make him afraid. And why? Here at the very center of the psalm comes the very center of the psalmist's faith.Suddenly he stops speaking about God as "he," because you don't speak that way when the person is right there with you. Suddenly he speaks to God instead of about him, and he speaks to him as "thou." "I will fear no evil," he says, "for thou art with me." That is the center of faith.Thou. That is where faith comes from. Frederick Buechner - from Secrets in the Dark

+ Frederick Buechner Quote of the Day: Goodbye A WOMAN WITH A scarf over her head hoists her six-year-old up onto the first step of the school bus. "Goodbye," she says. A father on the phone with his freshman son has just finished bawling him out for his poor grades. There is mostly silence at the other end of the line. "Well, goodbye," the father says. When the girl at the airport hears the announcement that her plane is starting to board, she turns to the boy who is seeing her off. " I guess this is goodbye," she says. The noise of the traffic almost drowns out the sound of the word, but the shape of it lingers on the old man's lips. He tries to look vigorous and resourceful as he holds out his hand to the other old man. "Goodbye." This time they say it so nearly in unison that it makes them both smile. It was a long while ago that the words God be with you disappeared into the word goodbye, but every now and again some trace of them still glimmers through. -Originally published in Whistling in the Dark

[all from "alive on all channels" :: a journal that you can read]

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"There is a special quality of stillness in a person who encounters the shadow wholeheartedly. Your body may relax in their company because it understands, in the subtle communications of their presence, that nothing is excluded in themselves, therefore nothing in you can be rejected. Such a person, who has given up guarding against the shadow, who has come to wear their scars with dignity, no longer squirms from discomfort or bristles at suffering. They no longer brace in avoidance of conflict. They carry a deep willingness to dance with the inconstancy of life. They've given up distancing as a strategy, and made vulnerability their ally."

Excerpt from “Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home” by Toko-pa Turner (belongingbook.com)

Artwork by David Blackwood (www.davidblackwood.com)

[petalpetal]

Artist I Like Series

David Blackwood 1941 - 2022 a Canadian artist known chiefly for his intaglio prints, often depicting dramatic historical scenes of Newfoundland outport life and industry, such as shipwrecks, seal hunting, iceberg encounters and resettlement. He also created paintings, drawings and woodcuts.

[saraiisstanky]

[theartsjunkie]

David Blackwood's prints are narratives on Newfoundland

[random-brushstrokes]

David Blackwood - William Lane Leaving Bragg’s Island (1970)

[psikonauti]

David Blackwood (Canadian, 1941–2022)

Daybreak, The Labrador Sea, 2003

Etching and aquatint

[bubblegum-blackwood]

Just for fun

[baeba]

Oh characters who repeat their names and place to stay anchored to reality so they don’t spiral into madness, my beloveds.

[oldsardens]

David Lloyd Blackwood - Gram Glover’s Dream

[ttheatre-trashh]

you guys actually don’t understand i am all of them combined

[mellowkittencherryblossom]

It's only me or when i saw that clip with Benjicot Blackwood it came to mind about Barty Crouch jr in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire they have the same energy and look the resemblances.