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Sacred Spaces - i suppose all space on earth is sacred, although we seldom treat it as such. In this gallery i include some of my favourite things i have ever actioned on behalf of God.

i usually store this gallery in AA - Artists' Anonymous - a Smug Communities repository that I think is appropriate. i assume that is why artists use pen (painting) names. A man or woman's faith is their own business...

A lot of my work employs collage - it allows me to use modern media and ancient techniques of painting. It is, in essence, image making nonetheless. Paint, silver gelatin, pixels, cardboard, bytes - all form the canvas - the end result is image of a single moment in a succession of moments. One foot after the other...

For a good view of much of the subject matter in this gallery go to - and beyond -http://www.sacred-texts.com
inanga
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inanga > Rose Garden detail see the full 'Rose Garden' and Ms P in one of my on-line Aotearoa Galleries. There is a Valentine's Day poem that goes with it. All part of the overall world-wide-web picture. For those who know Whanganui-a-Tara well - the great harbour of Tara - aka Wellington - well, this is the lookout up by the Herb Garden in the Botanical Gardens - overgrown with some of a thousand Valentine's Day roses. inanga
inanga > Blessed Lord Krishna Brahma watches Lord Krishna initiate Arjuna, the Plains of Kurukshetra - see http://kurukshetra.nic.in for more gems from The Bhagavad Gita inanga
inanga > Path to Illinizas Sur e Norte, Ecuador When I painted this it reminded me of the time when a fellow Kiwi and I climbed Illinizas Sur in Ecuador. It had been snow-blasted by a sou' westerly and we literally had to crawl over giant snow mushrooms to get to the top. There was a small wayside prayer station with a Madonna in it - where climbers could pray for safe passage to and from the mountain. I couldn't get a picture of it to jog my memory so I included this waystation for prayer from another picture. I hope my fellow climber sees it one day - that was a hard first climb on ice for him. inanga [My friend suggested i read the following. As he asked i did: The Holy See 'JESUS CHRIST: THE BEARER OF THE WATER OF LIFE' - please search in this Vatican vault http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia on title above for an article on the similarities and differences of so-called New Age religions and traditional, ecumenical Catholicism. I found it interesting. The Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue is a wonderful part of the 'vault' and i was comforted greatly by the article 'Christians and Muslims: Together in Overcoming Poverty'.] I also found a really positive point of view, and similar to the above on: http://www.crossroad.to/Bible_studies/topics.html. [Ed note: There is political comment attached to this otherwise wonderful site - i refer you to the Wisdom within not the articles on politics - read them if you will... i am more interested in belief in God, not the negativities of our daily existence.] inanga
inanga > Angelic Realms 'But there is still another step that calls us, an ascent out of this cosmic identity into the identity of the divine Transcendence. The Master of our works and our being is not merely a Godhead here within us, nor is he [she] merely a cosmic Spirit or some kind of universal Power. The world and the Divine are not one and the same thing, as a certain kind of pantheistic thinking would like us to believe. The world is an emanation; it depends on something that manifests in it but is not limited by it: the Divine is not here alone; there is a Beyond, an eternal Transcendence. The individual being also in its spiritual part is not a formation in the cosmic existence - our ego, our mind, our life, our body are that; but the immutable spirit, the imperishable soul in us has come out of the Transcendence.' Sri Aurobindo, 'The Synthesis of Yoga', chapter 'The Master of the Work', p 255 detail from 'Restored Plate' centred in collage 2009 inanga
inanga > The Ka'bah For more on this Blessed place see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba acrylic, gouache, watercolour, collage and gold leaf on card 2006 inanga Kaitiaki: an anonymous Whanganui-aTaran (Wellingtonian) Iraqi
inanga > The Sacred Ka'bah This is a satellite shot of the Ka'bah as seen on Google Earth. It has been highlighted in an attempt to match the painting beside it. Beneath the blue squares (photo indicators) there is a mass of worshippers in circumnambulation. It is a place i would dearly love to visit some day. Bismill'ah er-Rahman er-Rahim. Salaam aleikum...
inanga > Crop Circles, England For more see: [feed to Kiwis in Crop Circles to be added when up and running]; also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circle
inanga > Mana detail from 'Waitohi's Grave, Mana Island' centred in collage Waitohi was a sonsinger of the Ngati Toa Rangatira, before the death of Te Peehi Kupe. courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009 inanga
inanga > Looking for Bob This painting went through several evolutions. It started off as a postcard that I purchased for a $1 from the Wellington Anglican Cathedral on the corner of Molesworth and High Streets in Wellington. That card had a number of thumbnails of children's drawings of how they viewed God. I took the magnifying glass out and then started enlarging the drawings so they could be collaged. The original card was 150mm x 110mm and so was the original picture. This was rephotographed and then cut up for collage again, then retouched with swirls to give it a 'needing magnifying glass exploration' feel. Things worth looking for are: 'The Baby Factory', 'You notice everything I do' and 'Before I even speak a word, you know everything I say' [Omniscience] and 'I know him. he's called Bob' - hence the title. Out of the mouth of babes, untainted and pure. watercolour, glitter paint, acrylic, oil and collage of Year 7-12 postcard thumbnails 2006 inanga The original became part of 'The Blue Garter/Wish you Were Here', a double-sided swinging billboard of wood and now in the Riff Raff Club in Henderson, West Auckland.
Rose Garden detail

see the full 'Rose Garden' and Ms P in one of my on-line Aotearoa Galleries. There is a Valentine's Day poem that goes with it. All part of the overall world-wide-web picture.

For those who know Whanganui-a-Tara well - the great harbour of Tara - aka Wellington - well, this is the lookout up by the Herb Garden in the Botanical Gardens - overgrown with some of a thousand Valentine's Day roses.

inanga
> Rose Garden detail see the full 'Rose Garden' and Ms P in one of my on-line Aotearoa Galleries. There is a Valentine's Day poem that goes with it. All part of the overall world-wide-web picture. For those who know Whanganui-a-Tara well - the great harbour of Tara - aka Wellington - well, this is the lookout up by the Herb Garden in the Botanical Gardens - overgrown with some of a thousand Valentine's Day roses. inanga
Rose Garden detail

see the full 'Rose Garden' and Ms P in one of my on-line Aotearoa Galleries. There is a Valentine's Day poem that goes with it. All part of the overall world-wide-web picture.

For those who know Whanganui-a-Tara well - the great harbour of Tara - aka Wellington - well, this is the lookout up by the Herb Garden in the Botanical Gardens - overgrown with some of a thousand Valentine's Day roses.

inanga
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