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Layered Landscapes Made of Graphite, Tape, and Resin
LA-based mixed media artist Brooks Shane Salzwedel assembles beautiful natural landscapes, often featuring some form of majestic architecture like bridges and oil drilling towers. The artist primarily works with graphite, tape, and resin to produce these layered images, giving each one a three-dimensional feel. The separation that defines the difference between foreground and background is expressed through a sheet of fogginess. A dark, sharp silhouette of the setting stands out against the muted shadows that serve as the backdrop. There is a haunting, surreal aesthetic to Salzwedel’s work that combines nature and man-made architecture.
Selected works are available for purchase as prints at the artist’ shop.
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All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven’t loved well enough or loved at all, which ultimately are one and the same. However, when you make love with a truly great woman, one that deserves the utmost respect in this world and one that makes you feel truly powerful, that fear of death completely disappears. Because when you are sharing your body and heart with a great woman the world fades away. You two are the only ones in the entire universe. You conquer what most lesser men have never conquered before, you have conquered a great woman’s heart, the most vulnerable thing she can offer to another.
Death no longer lingers in the mind. Fear no longer clouds your heart. Only passion for living, and for loving, become your sole reality. This is no easy task for it takes insurmountable courage. But remember this, for that moment when you are making love with a woman of true greatness you will feel immortal.
Do you ever pause
just to look around?
marvel at the beauty
of these Earthen sounds?the sways of the trees
the cries of the birds
the whistles of leaves
the sweet smell of herbsthe warmth of the sun
as it caresses your face
the cool touch of the wind
that just can’t be replacedthe clouds floating lazily
through a mostly blue sky
all this beauty inherent
in the symbiosis of lifeso do you ever pause
to just look around?
you might be surprised
by the beauty you found
