Phoenix

What is this blog about? In a nutshell, it's about black and white darkroom photomontage. Every few weeks, a new image with a few words about it, kinda poetic, philosophical. 

For more details - check out the archive, the first post, April 26, 2015.

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There is an old myth about a 'phoenix'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix  (mythology)

So here's my 'phoenix', rising from the ashes, to be reborn.

Bob Dylan wrote:

'I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now'

Long before that, Rumi wrote:

'Only an empty vessel can be refilled'

They are both the same thought, aren't they?

I recently went back to this print... did some hand coloring:

Now it really soars, in more ways than one.