http://www.grassistefano.com Art - Design - Photography Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:20:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.grassistefano.com/2011/07/dressed-in-black/#comment-270 aLeXa "Dok" Smothers Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:20:04 +0000 http://www.grassistefano.com/?p=261#comment-270 Everything contains a "secret" essence sometimes only perceived in the most thoughtful of moments we all may experience here or there. But here, Nature seems to be made into Stefano's model showing its many depths in countless stark, woefully haunting and subtly emotive ways that only an artistic and skilled eye can capture and compose. In some, she throws her head back in an ecstatic, fleeting whim and in others she cryptically outstretches her arms in recondite longing. Profoundly beautiful as always. Everything contains a “secret” essence sometimes only perceived in the most thoughtful of moments we all may experience here or there. But here, Nature seems to be made into Stefano’s model showing its many depths in countless stark, woefully haunting and subtly emotive ways that only an artistic and skilled eye can capture and compose. In some, she throws her head back in an ecstatic, fleeting whim and in others she cryptically outstretches her arms in recondite longing. Profoundly beautiful as always.

]]> http://www.grassistefano.com/2011/07/oniric-paths-series-take2/#comment-269 aLeXa / Dok Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:55:33 +0000 http://www.grassistefano.com/?p=245#comment-269 The first pieces in the series are introspectively divine and the newer works transcend even the initial ones' statuesque, stoic, and thoughtfully dark beauty inherent in each; as if the series itself grows and evolves like one's consciousness or the wise Mage's as either one struggles on the path to enlightenment through the darkness of the mysteries amongst the subterranean worlds as one moves toward the light of the Worlds [planes] Above- the journey of the "Oniric Path"... translated through the psychic prism into the visual realm so beautifully. The first pieces in the series are introspectively divine and the newer works transcend even the initial ones’ statuesque, stoic, and thoughtfully dark beauty inherent in each; as if the series itself grows and evolves like one’s consciousness or the wise Mage’s as either one struggles on the path to enlightenment through the darkness of the mysteries amongst the subterranean worlds as one moves toward the light of the Worlds [planes] Above- the journey of the “Oniric Path”… translated through the psychic prism into the visual realm so beautifully.

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