My Pet-Wiebe

Sheldonia-comic strips

New Year

A head with tattoos

A Hare

Slofjes

rooster

pelican

eagle head

snow owl

snapping turtle

lotus

A portfolio of artworks

In the days to come I shall be posting my drawings and paintings. I am an architect by profession and I am self taught in drawing. Hope my works give pleasure to all who visit my space.

A potted banana plant

portrait-Ayan

portrait-arnold

A Creative Spirit

Eyes are often characterized as the window of soul.
‘For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man in him…’ (1 Cor 2:11) Spirit of man is the divine spark that wells up and courses through entire being by which man has throughout the course of human history impressed on one another. Spirit is his animating principle. His creative genius could not have been sustained to author a treatise or literary work without the ability of spirit in communion with every other.
If not for my experience and spirit of the ages that envelop me would I be able to enjoy the work of Martial or Ovid? What has an Elizabethean Age to do with me? Yet the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe do hold charms for me.
In the pagan religion we see how spirit played a great role: what are the Delphic oracles but spirit giving utterance to answer seekers who were in need of guidance. These Phythia sat at specific spots and heard the supplicants and gave out their answers under its influence. One might say these virgins must have had a hallucinatory episode while they spoke. The fact that their oracles however bizarre were translated into words by another meant that spirit of man once again came into play here.
Art, literature and thought of the Pagan world, for their excellence and many artifacts of their cultural life still surviving, stand testimony to their spirit.
But as I mentioned in my previous post this spirit do not signify soul.
(2 b Cont'd)
benny

Give and Take

I can teach you how
You may kowtow;
Or slice carps or mullet
As an expert;
If you be a traveler
Survival skills I can impart;
But it will do you no good.
If nature has taught,
You have learnt something more than
Mere practice of an art.
(You are taught as much
By nature of life.)
Ah, then I shall teach you
Willingly what you lack.
I shall also profit from my lessons.
benny

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Renoir, Auguste Pierre (1841-1919)
In old age the painter suffered from arthritis, which twisted his hands and the cramps got worse. One day Henri Matisse watching him wield a brush with his fingertips and continue, despite the excruciating pain involved in each movement, asked why he persisted in painting.
Renoir replied, “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
benny