“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos” —Stephen Sondheim
Heaving to
Order in chaos
Charts of art
Art is messy, art is chaos – so you need a system —Andrew Stanton
Random course
Toss of a tempest
Yet not lost
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order —Carl Jung
Afloat on
Capsizing rollers
Caroming
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man —Henry Adams
Free roaming
Bloated foaming shapes
Grapes of grace
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena —Wilhelm Reich
Roiling bay
Nova hatchery
Rose of roe
This world’s a bubble —Saint Augustine
Singular
Iridescent bulbs
Coalesce
We live in a rainbow of chaos —Paul Cezanne
Solo globes
Colliding idly
Effervesce
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star —Friedrich Nietzsche
Beads blister
Burst into inklings
Patterning
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know —Alan Watts
Dim hollows
Globes deep as heavens
Stop and glow
When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness —Kristin Armstrong
Waiting out
A tempest’s temper
The tide pools
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you —Deepak Chopra
Stop motion
Idle the notion
Vessel bobs
To the mind that is still the whole universe surrenders —Lao-Tzu
Hove to here
Tide and time inspire
Charts of art
Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul —Niki de St. Phalle
This series abstracts the order in chaos experienced by the artist at the top of his craft, toasting imagination with a flute of brut, charting a course of creative moment, where visual metaphor is as literal as poetry.
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GODSLAUGH.ME 
oh – you have done it 🙂 – am afraid I can’t do it justice right now; will come back to it 🙂 promise
this, and this:
thanks for sharing!
❤
David
I find those ideas particularly interesting, too. The first makes me wonder where man’s dream of order in chaos originated, or originates. The other makes my pen leak. 🙂 Glad you visited. David. Thanks for your comment.
*hug*
Very inspired art, both visual and verbal.
To embrace
inevitable chaos
makes stars dance
Vert kind, LuAnne, thank you for viewing and reading…and especially writing. 🙂
“When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.” Dean Koontz
Saint Augustine did all of his thinking in the bubble bath so I am not surprised by the quote. Beautiful work, as always. Sorry for the late reply, this post somehow slipped past me. — geo.
Thank you, Geo, saints be praised!