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i had to clean up this gallery before i could repost it in Travel. i love the light of Tuscany that i see in your pictures - and having not been allowed there myself (another long story) - I have to create my own impression with what i have at my disposal. In this digital age i can get a panoramic view of Cappella di Vitaleta and then paint it. Tuscany seems to creep into many of my paintings. It the place with a room with a view, a five-arched Ponte Vecchio, a 'house in...', rolling hills, a leaning tower (or is it?) and swirled skies.

The map tour here is a buzz - go for it! Go up to 'Map This' - CLICK - it brings up a map of Tuscany with Smug-icons on it. Go to right of map 'timeline' and press 'play'. You can use the Google slider to zoom right into the subject of the painting. I hope you have as much fun on tour as I did painting the originals. The gallery selector (for the bulk of my pix) is at top left - ' > inanga '.

The first person who comments in this gallery gets an original!

inanga
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inanga > uffizi, pounamu and phi courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009
inanga > Pisa from the Air - where is Mr Magritte? i wanted to see what Google Earth would show me about the lean in the tower. 3-D Google, for those who are new to it, is fantasmo. The blue dots indicate spots where people have linked their snapshots to Google Earth - they almost look like a crowd of tourists on a not-so-busy day. Mr Magritte, red apple and green tie - instead of other way round - is nowhere to be seen. Thanx to the Google Earth wizards. inanga
inanga > 'Do you get my leaning Mr Magritte?' [detail], Pisa, Tuscany acrylic, gouache, gold spray paint on English canvas framed by the artist 2007 Original: Ms P Collection, Johnsonville 680mm x 1000mm framed
inanga > 'Do you get my leaning Mr Magritte?' [detail], Pisa, Tuscany acrylic, gouache, gold spray paint on English canvas framed by the artist 2007 Original: Ms P Collection, Johnsonville 680mm x 1000mm framed
inanga > Mr Magritte gets lost in the fog, Pisa, Tuscany courtesy of the usual suspects inanga
inanga > Nanosecond, Sorano (detail) acrylic, oil, gouache and gold leaf on paper 2007 420mm x 600mm Kaitiaki: Miles from ? inanga
inanga > Nanosecond, Sorano The image of the photo captured in paint... acrylic, oil, gouache and gold leaf on paper 2007 Kaitiaki: Miles from ? I wrote the following in my Plog - this is a good place to archive it: 'Don't you get the impression that everything is connected. The strand of all life has been stretched infinitely - far beyond our limited three-dimensional capabilities. The world wide web is changing that, we hope. We being those who give a damn about it all in the first place. So the story here starts in Tuscany in a Dulux-Resene heaven of exploding colour. At first there is the palette complete with freshly squeezed paint, then the photons from that ever exploding Sun, they hit your retina, psychotropic chemicals go hog wild doing the neuron-synsapse connection thing to the pineal gland, and whammo - you see the picture in front of you in a nanosecond - and at exactly at 4.10 pm in the afternoon as the clock on the tower attests. Hence the name given to this piece - Nanosecond Sorano. It is now the property of Miles from Nowhere and he took the image I am talking about that you see at the start of this Plog. The other picture is The Artist's Palette - the actual palette was a gift to 'mfnw' (alias Cockroach) who also took the image of the palette and the 3-D Sunflowers. Amazing what a camera and a nanosecond can do. Thank goodness our right hemispheres, under the right harmonic conditions, operate faster than light (FTL). It is sort of odd that a picture that depicts the exact moment of creation of a scene took more time than that to paint. Funny thing happened during the painting... I was on an enforced electricity budget so I was painting by two-candle power only. I painted the time on the clock when the painting was finished - 4.10 am in the morning, or about 12 hours' or so difference northern hemisphere Tuscany time from Downunder southern hemisphere time. Are you confused with this complete mix of the hemispheres, well I am! Needless to say, in the wee hours of the morning I was engrossed totally in depicting the nanosecond that the Sun's rays hit the town of Sorano and that image your eyes and brain scramble to equal a painting in a Plog. Anyway, the paper moved on to a candle while I was swirling the scene and it caught fire. It took be a few seconds to double take and realise that the painting was on fire (or Phi-re). I stubbed it out with my sleeve and repaired it with oil, acrylic and gold leaf, The tragedy that was fixed occurred about half-way up the right-side of Sorano. I knew i had finished this exquisite moment in my own weird quantum reality when i signed i in the Piet Mondrian mural on the fence in the left-hand bottom corner of the beautiful little town of Sorano, Tuscany. Mondrian was a great lover of Phi proportions, even though he presents his pictures as 2-D Platonic solids. The life of a painting goes on - it creates its own universe. The painting was framed by a close friend of Miles from Nowhere. It went on another journey to Tamaki-makau-rau (Auckland) where it is awaiting the next leg of its journey through this 3-D stopover of Earth. I feel I am writing these words in absentia, but I know I am not. I am about to Customize by world wide links on Spider Grandmother's intricately woven filament of connectivity. Time to publish another Plog - painting log - and I hope those that read it get a kick out of it.' inanga
inanga > Tuscany Collage Series 'A few nanoseconds in Sorano' Centrepiece by inanga, surrounding originals by inanga courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009
inanga > San Gimignano Towers, Tuscany The thirteen towers of the medieval town of San Gimignano in Tuscany must have inspired the skyscraper builders of the 20th century - in essence, the first Manhattan skyline. I used a bit of poetic license with the village structure here because I really wanted to test the Phi- 1.618099389 swirl in the whole picture – on the buildings themselves, in the Tuscan sky, and upon the earth on which it is all built. And the red terracotta roofs went right off! In the left-hand bottom corner the roots reach out to a silvered stream. The stone bridge defied the swirl and took on magic of a controversial sort. The towers were built as defenses against marauders. I suppose the higher the tower the better the defense. When a Pope moved in here he built the highest tower and then whacked a Papal Decree on the town – his was forever to be the highest tower by half an inch – and that is as it remains to this day. Gouache, acrylic, glitter and oil on paper, 2006 Kaitiaki: Ms P retouched and painted photo of San Gimignano in a small frame 2008 260mm x 190mm
Tuscany Collage Series

'A few nanoseconds in Sorano'

Centrepiece by inanga, surrounding originals by inanga

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009
> Tuscany Collage Series 'A few nanoseconds in Sorano' Centrepiece by inanga, surrounding originals by inanga courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009
Tuscany Collage Series

'A few nanoseconds in Sorano'

Centrepiece by inanga, surrounding originals by inanga

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009
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