“This World of Imagination is Infinite and Eternal. There exist in that Eternal World the permanent realities of every thing we see reflected in nature” - William Blake.
Your Imagination is not an escape from the World, but is instead its eternal foundation. “Time is the moving image of Eternity” - Plato.
Eternity is timeless and changeless, because it already includes all time and change. Each moment of your life is part of Eternity, and can be experienced as such by a change in perspective.
Brilliant works from acclaimed artist Colleen Barry.
Colleen’s paintings blend the sophistication of European Masters with contemporary art influences like Michelangelo, Kathe Kollwitz, and Andy Warhol. A New Yorker with a background in music and film, she spent a decade studying old masters in European museums. In 2011, she received an Affiliate Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Now, Colleen works from her East Williamsburg studio and serves as the Director of Drawing at the Grand Central Atelier in Long Island City, New York.
“You, drowning
between my arms —
stay.
You, pushing your body
into the river
only to be left
with yourself —
stay.”
Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. (via xshayarsha)
