Hi Viktor...I'm afraid this specimen has past the point of artful dying...it's long past dead! But living on in the belly of some catapiller....will we fare so well, living on in the belly of some server?
vz-nostalgia: well, that's one way to look at this, Alan. This happens all the time. Folks look at the same thing, but come to different conclusions. I'm fine with that. For me the point has not been passed, but has just started.
Perhaps I can learn something from this thing, VZ...I am dying in an artless and disgraceful manner, and loving the process!
vz-nostalgia: That is so selfish, Ray. If you like the artless and disgraceful manners, it doesn't mean that those around you enjoy them too.
Philine
Germany
10 Apr 2009, 13:42
wonderful-fine structures or textures of a leaf we never realized before (being dying) considering this beauty! Dying and living on- yes, they belong together- and for many Christian people the Good Friday/ Easter message can be found in the depths of this experience and belief! (You will celebrate Easter one week later than us as my Greek friend just told me.)
vz-nostalgia: That's right, Ms. Philine. The Orthodox Christians are a week or so behind on all religious events. They are on an old calendar.
vz-nostalgia: "so much detail"... is that the new criteria for being fabulous, Ron? In this case my face has something to hope for, when I'm 64.
Sam Finken
United States
10 Apr 2009, 14:12
Immediately I hear music like the Death March on this one too. Layers into the depth as well as from top to bottom. Very nice. Does your leaf have an agent we can contact for future work? Some off-Broadway shows?
vz-nostalgia: Lol Sam.
Do you hear Wagner again, or this time it's Mahler's "Trauermarsch"? Or is it Chopin's "Marche Funebre"?
I've always been fascinated by leaves where the veins are exposed too since I was a young child child ...maybe they remind us of the fragility of life...and to appreciate living and the present.
vz-nostalgia: even though live leaves are things of wonder, Ms. Zhen, they really turn into pieces of art, when they start dying. And not unlike with people, we often notice their beauty only when they are gone.
The underlying structure of this leaf is not so different than ours..I see the lattice work of the soft tissue deep in our bones, our venous system, even our lungs and how air moves in them. Beautiful and delicate patterns everywhere and so many unseen...universal fractals...art expressing itself in life and death.
vz-nostalgia: I assume Gray's Anatomy is your coffee table book, Ms. Suzanne.
vz-nostalgia: one day, Ms. Laurie, one day you will forget about all things technical and will reveal to me what a woman feels while looking at the picture.
A fine filligree indeed, carefully preserved decay at its finest.
vz-nostalgia: and now I made the leaf immortal.
K.A.
S.A.
14 Apr 2009, 16:40
i wish my life could look like this ... you know what i mean...
'the art of dying
and giving all
without regreting
on what I've done...
the art of living
step by step
the art of dying
big, sound and fresh' (K.A.)
who cares about getting old now???
vz-nostalgia: "...you know what i mean..."
Actually, I don't, Ms. K.A. Do you want your life to look like a rotten leaf?
I'm just kidding. Your cute little poem explains it fairly well.
i can't imagine a more beautiful photograph.
it reminds one of a veil, except the eyes inside are hidden for the darkness.
thanks victor for sharing this.
vz-nostalgia:
Sera: i can't imagine a more beautiful photograph.
VZ: There is only one solution to this problem, Ms. Sera. Start slowly exploring Nostalgia archive.
A veil with hidden in the darkness eyes... I love this unexpected thought, Ms. Sera.