#nature ar

[palaeoiris]

We're beyond thrilled to announce that Volgaynoes: a Volcano-themed queer art collection is coming to Kickstarter this February. This beautiful collection is a collab with a volcanologist/artists @alias_in_ink We hope you'll follow along on our journey to bring these art pieces to life. 🌈✨ For more info an to subscribe to updates: tinyurl.com/volgaynoes

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“We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.” Andy Goldsworthy is a land artist and photographer renowned for his ephemeral, site-specific installations made from natural materials such as ice, rocks, sand, and branches. Created with an acute awareness of the landscape’s inherent changes, his sculptures intentionally blur the lines between art and nature. Andy’s transient works are photographed only once, right after they’re created, and explore the passage of time and our relationship with nature, emphasising the impermanence of life and the continuous interplay between human creativity and the natural world.

[aurosoulart]

made one of my old VR artworks into an AR painting 🖌🎨✨

[hermesmoly]

Ares and Zeus’ complicated relationship is so fascinating to me.

Zeus tells him to his face he’s his most hated child, doesn’t have any reaction to him being kidnapped for over a year (again that’s if he knew, which the myth never tells us if its the case or not) and yet Ares is described as dear to him in the HomHymns, Zeus even being fair to him during his trial for the death of his brother’s son.

[lavellane]

thinking about how that solavellan ending actually Works for lavellans who want that hopeful ending but arent as forgiving abt the whole situation as veilguard presented it. and i do think in ashara's case, yes, she goes with him out of love, but more so out of duty. post trespasser she drops the name lavellan in favor of her family name, dhavise, since her place in the clan had already been cast into question and her allegiances with the chantry/solas are cause for doubt as to whether she's even welcome back anymore. but i think by the end of veilguard she's reaffirmed her identity as Lavellan no matter what, and truly does see herself as the Keeper of not just her own clan but of her whole modern people, and with that rekindled purpose she chooses to watch over them all by way of watching over fen'harel. protecting them by protecting him from himself. which ironically is the reason the dalish HAVE keepers in the first place

[massiveladycat]

i actually kind of like ares, in mythology he's actually pretty cool--

anti ares people:

WARNING! SA AND R*PE MENTION DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU MAY BE TRIGGERED reasons of why i like ares:

protector of mistreated women halirrothius, son of Poseidon, thought he could do whatever he wanted because his daddy was the god of the seas and so he r*ped alcippe, daughter of ares, god of war. ares immediately killed halirrothius, and he was put on trial. he would have been declared a murderer but the goddesses declared in his favor. he looked out for his children too, and he never raped anyone

father, patron, and supporter of the amazons

freed Thanatos from Sisyphus (he got annoyed that death wasn't permanent but ykw he still did it!!)

when his son was killed by the trojans, he was literally livid. zeus had told him that he could not interfere in the war, but he still wanted to attack the trojans. once again ares is a great father compared to the others

gets portrayed as weak because the Athenians recorded most of mythology and happily screwed him over; he's not the most powerful god, but hes literally the god of the 'horrible parts of war' and courage. this man does NOT run away screaming at a little cut. maybe he doesn't like getting hurt because he's immortal and he's not used to it but come on man!!

[my-name-is-apollo]

I know Ares being Zeus' least favorite child is a popular interpretation, but I think it's interesting that Callimachus' hymn says otherwise:

And thou didst not tremble before the anger of Hera, who murmured terribly against all child-bearing women that bare children to Zeus, but especially against Leto, for that she only was to bear to Zeus a son dearer even than Ares.

– Callimachus, Hymn to Delos (trans. A.W Mair)

Only Leto would bear a son who would be dearer to Zeus than Ares is. Which means that the sons that other women bore were not as dear to Zeus as Ares is, if I'm interpreting this correctly. It's honestly kinda fascinating.

[rosy2k]

『ar』 2017

[sesamenom]

Quick design for Plague Doctor Elrond

inspired by this post by @thesummerestsolstice

[bklenk]

Tree of my day December 6th 2023

[keepingitneutral]

Casa en la Sierra de Arteaga, Arteaga, Coahuila, Mexico,

Ana Cecilia Garza & César Guerrero (S-AR),

Rafael Gamo Photographs

[aurosoulart]

Winter Sun 🌤

companion piece to Winter Moon! I've been using VR & AR headsets to create paintings you can walk inside of - you can see more of this series in my Immersive Painting tag ✨

[gnosisofthedualrealms]

Ritual for demon/angel invocation

When I started doing rituals, I used the Gallery of Magick's books. They served as an excellent introduction to summoning spirits, but I had a problem from the start.

My first problem was the focus on practicality. I didn't like how every ritual felt like it was for personal gain and that the spirits were used at our disposal. I believe that respect will achieve far greater results, but respect starts with not only asking but listening to what the spirits have to say.

The second problem is that spirits were viewed as either good or bad. Angels were supportive and protective, whereas demons were evil. You needed to use protective angelic seals so they wouldn't possess you or bring you evil.

The more I did rituals, the more I felt like both demons and angels couldn't tell me what they were thinking due to the specific restrictions. I had a similar issue when I was a practicing Catholic, and it's what pulled me out of organized religion. I kept learning about how everyone viewed God, but I had yet to hear what God had to say about himself. The moment I did that was the moment I left the church.

Anyway, these restrictions prompted me to change the ritual into something extremely simple and more effective for my approach. I've had better contact with angels and demons, and I have much greater visions and revelations being shared.

The number one factor that I focused on was altering consciousness. I believe everyone has a different method for doing this. For me, repeating words and phrases allows me to get into a trance-like state, which opens me up to visions and experiences from whatever spirit I'm contacting. My partner gets into trance-like states from singing and music in general, so she uses that to help her with her ritual and meditative practices.

For those who wish to contact the spirits, take some time to think about things that you do that already get you into an altered state of consciousness or help you focus to the point that you forget the world around you. It could be anything from drawing, dancing, singing, writing, mantras, etc. If you have the entity you wish to connect with in mind while you allow yourself to drift, it's only a matter of time before the link opens and results show up.

It's important not to force anything but to let the entities speak to you in the way they know best. I'd also recommend avoiding summoning them for some request. Treat them like a friend that you want to get to know. It'll only be a matter of time before what requests that truly come from the heart will come up in those altered states and the entity will help you.

I want to conclude that tradition is not bad or obsolete. It's great to learn from, but the moment you think it's the be-all and end-all, you stop growing. It's the moment you won't benefit from the potential magick offers. Things change, and our definitions of spirits change, too. If you allow the spirit to speak to you in your current consciousness instead of forcing it into previous definitions or confines, you'll gain more than you could ever ask for.

Also, if you're interested in my specific rituals, I can share them with you to give you some ideas for your own approach!

[poppytuft]

the bear s3 spoilers

below the cut! thinking about claire and stuff we saw this season re: carmy/syd/the restaurant/donna, just finished the season so itll be a mess and also im comin in way too hot on this so my bad

sometimes...... sometimes i believe you guys are all watching different tv. im not sure how this season didnt feel like a direct through line from s2?? and im not sure WHY everyone is SO MAD about claire LITERALLY "haunting" this season. girl. come on. we need to have a sit down talk about how the berzatto generational trauma is the real meat of this show (this will make sense, just trust me). thats the MAIN EMOTIONAL POINT. syd's relationship with her dad, marcus and his mom, richie and evie, even tina and louie are all examples of parental relationships that are tender, sweet, supportive, etc. these are INTENTIONAL!! by creating these relationships we see PLAINLY how fucked donna is and how much she fucked up all of these kids. thats why "ice chips" was such a FANTASTIC episode. there was SO MUCH unpacked, so much revealed, so much worked through with sugar and her but at the end of the day she's still learning how to unlearn all of this horrific narcissistic bullshit. SHES STILL UNLEARNING THOUGH. thats where fucking DONNA of all people sits right now——somehow, she's learning how to heal. EVERYONE IS LEARNING. that's also what is so important about that episode.

now lets look at carmy. in "ice chips" we are LITERALLY told about how each berzatto is born: mikey fighting against the idea of being alive at all, nat into a quiet, soothing room, and CARMY is fucking born into EVERYONE SCREAMING and ARGUING and FIGHTING. we are BLATANTLY told that all carmy has ever known is HELL and all he's ever known how to communicate is through exploding. this is so violently against what we also know about his personality from childhood in "fishes" (anxious growing up, arts-oriented, had a hard time making friends). now, he works a violently stressful job, processing the trauma from both his mother (and chef fields [joel mchale], realistically) through the high-stress environment.

NOW. ENTER CLAIRE.

HOW is she not fascinating to you all. we don't see her whole story (because the bear, duh) but we are given just enough pieces here to put together that her story runs parallel to carmy's. how are you not getting this. walk with me.

claire. glasses, nerdy, quiet, sweet, girl next door. family friend! cute, but considered mid for a long time by everyone at school, but suddenly the berzatto men all badger carm, "oh she got a glow up, oh shes looking for you, she wants to see you," etc etc etc. what happened in between?

she finds herself. she finds the stressful thing she LOVES, which is the hospital. her job is objectively more stressful than carmy's (illustrated by that scene earlier in the season but i forgot the episode, where claire talks about the girl who got her shit wrecked by the glass table), and while we don't have an exact understanding of what her home life was like, we understand that her and carmy both have a level of internal anxiety that thrives on the stress of their careers. HOWEVER, claire does it because she loves it. carmy just doesn't know how to stop.

this is what makes claire feel like "peace" to carmy——because her high-stress job is a choice, an active choice she is making because it fulfills her. it's not to prove her dead brother wrong, or to honor his own legacy, or to prove that dickbag boss wrong, or to leave a mark on the world, or to make her own life worthwhile, or to prove that she doesn't need anyone else. she genuinely enjoys helping people even when the days are stressful, or scary. he's obsessed with this. he wants to know how she does this. every day she leaves that stress at home——and he wants to learn how to do that too.

claire is VITAL to this season and to understanding carmy's stress——and how far back he is in his healing process. it should only become more and more apparent, as we see characters like tina (the beef/the bear became vital to her success/development as a chef AND person, both for the people AND her love of food), marcus (not hiding his grief, but using it to help rationalize how much his mother loved him and wanted to be surrounded by people that love him), and richie (finding a purpose through service/expo and understanding he can start over again) push through their own traumas and struggles to become better people. if donna can be not only present at sugar's bedside during labor, but WELCOMED at this point in the show, it makes carmy's inability to heal all the more present. claire is an important part of this puzzle: she helps us see a window into a world where carmy is balanced emotionally, but unbalanced professionally, because he has no idea how to make the two coexist.

however, the idea that he can be balanced emotionally at all is so fucking enticing——with the help of someone who experiences stress in the same way as him (and who is familiar with his familial trauma), he has the opportunity to grow up and move on from his family trauma and wounds perpetuated by the industry he works in.

on the flip side of this....... his inability to process any of this is starting to impact syd. and frankly, that's some bullshit. his lack of communication, inability to community build/trust ANYONE, and his violent stubbornness is pushing her into the same space that he was in under chef fields, in a much slower, more subtle manner, and for slightly different reasons. her panic attack at the end of the season could read in two directions to me: her stress over the responsibility of changing so many people's lives has boiled over once she remembered that the beef once was truly great (hey five star review on the fridge!), OR, she realizes how much she isn't in it for the food. fuck a Michelin star: she wants to cook with her family. chef terry says at the end of "forever", in the garage with carmy, that she's so grateful she got to do whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted, where she wanted, with the people she wanted to do it with. sydney is so close to having those things at the bear——but carmy's dysfunction is keeping it just out of arms reach. the two of them are now on opposite sides of the approach from last season: syd dying for a star, and carmy dying to cook for the woman he loved. now, carmy is hungy for recognition again, desperate to prove something, and sydney is remembering (thanks to the conversation with other chefs during the ever funeral service) why she loved cooking in the first place. so this leaves us to wonder: should she stick it out? for the people? or make something of herself? is she carmy, or is she terry? i guess we will just have to see.

all this to say: every character is connected. the bear is a show about family, found and blood, and the choices we make for, with, and because of the people we love, for better or for worse. food is only the center of it, because it's the center of all of our lives. you can't hate claire without understanding where she sits in the web of the berzatto family. and really, you can't hate her if you understand what her presence means for carmy, for syd, and the restaurant as a whole.

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