Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Artistic Interpretations with Margaret – “Alcohol Ink Part II”
“Here I have the last of the Alcohol Inks from an exhibit of local talent in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Boone, NC.
Please interpret the images in any way you please. I have included the artist titles below each image for a frame of reference, but do not feel bound by it. I was given a thumbs up when I asked if I could photograph these images.”
Fire & Ice by S. Anderson
Founding a new land
comes with responsibilities.
How to build homes
How to assess climate
How to ascertain a job
at which you will be
proficient. Since each
resident is rainbow-
colored, they have voted
to name their new land
Fire and Ice. Ice may
appear as milky white
or acquamarine
depending on how
light slants down.
Fire may look burnt
orange tipped with
sun-yellow or fighting
red.
Sitting in front
of a glowing fireplace,
you witness dancing
flames of indigo.
Mesmerizing.
They know their work
is cut out for them.
Founding a new land
comes with many
responsibilities,
and possibilities.
It is good to arrive at or be born in a colonied country after all the hard work has been done. Rather them than me.
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Well, we’ve owned the right by now to simply live there.
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I love fighting red – and all your wonderful references to colour
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Thanks, Jae!
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The shifting nature of ice and flames – their colors, their look. Yes, it is like founding something new… ever-changing, developing.
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Thanks, Margaret!
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This sounds like a wonderful land to explore
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It would be a wonderful land to live on.
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I like how you saw creating a new land, used color to describe what it would take to accomplish it.
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Thanks, Susie!
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Colonize the moon? A planet or a star? Antarctica? Places get harder and harder. Or is there an endless supply, like men to civilize into good husbands? Or weeds and living predators for or new garden for flowers and veggies?
I appreciate this immensely, Sara. It needs some time spent with it. Also, there are several songs concerning ice and fire, and Iceland has been called “Land of ice and fire,” quite literally described. We visited there.
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Personally, I would like to leave the moon and planets alone.
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