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mise-n-abyme · 5 days

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"With wings of eternal devotion, I approach you with being; where the layers of my Celestial fabrics strip into nothingness, revealing you. To all which shape mere existence— to be put on by the fabrics of your knowing; beyond the narrowings between Space and Time, I begin to see you in different forms. With sanctity in our Spirit awaiting like Sparrows of certainty, I await you through these Spheres of ever-warming, ever-lasting; Righteousness." ~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Samudra Manthana' (Churning of The Ocean of Milk), Unknown

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mise-n-abyme · 26 days

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"Through the initial workings of the mind, we have the ability to conceive of a reality which beholds the essence of an ancient spirit; expressing dutiful reckonings of Being through moments which reign endless teachings." ~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Birth of Athena', Atalanta Fugiens —Michael Maier (17h century)

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mise-n-abyme · 1 month

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"We come out of the darkness dancing. Dancing, with wings of mercy, upon everlasting attentiveness of aching ground. Within the rhythm of sound, the rising sun peaks above the mound; as we hear the four-cornered winds singing and chanting all around— all that was lost now becomes found."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Campfire Dance' — Vennom07, 2021

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mise-n-abyme · 2 months

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「 "The situations that you are dealt in life have the lessons needed in order for you to grow past the person you were yesterday into the one that you are called upon to be today." 」

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Metamorphosis Manifestation', Melissa Muse.

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mise-n-abyme · 3 months

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"Whatever it may be that you do, allow yourself to experience it fully—whether it be old or new. Whenever you may feel, may you allow yourself to feel it fully in order for it to heal, and to observe it's flow, as it twists and contorts; as it soars way up high or sinks deeply below. May you have the strength to witness the ability to endure this flow, to accept the beauty for what it is and what it may show. Embrace everything fully and enjoy the ride; what is it that you may find on the other side?"

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'The Forest, Trees, & Dryads' — Mario Duguay

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mise-n-abyme · 4 months

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"Whatever it may be that you do, allow yourself to experience it fully; whether old or new. Whenever you may feel, may you allow yourself to feel it fully for it to heal. To witness its flow, as it twists and contorts; as it soars way up high or sinks deeply below. May you have the strength to observe the ability to endure its flow, to accept the beauty for what it is and what it may show. Embrace everything fully and enjoy the ride; what is it that you may find on the other side?"

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Untitled' – Zdzisław Beksiński, 1978

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mise-n-abyme · 4 months

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"Life is an ever-expanding expression of temporary change, revealing ourselves within each and every shedding phase. Each lesson pertaining to fractals of a reflection; a projection of an immaculate conception."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'The Creator'– Michael Fishel, 1977

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mise-n-abyme · 4 months

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OK I’m asking. Do you have any idea of the name of the painting on the blog cover the one where the guys looking through to another reality/ dimension?

I'm glad you asked! The cover photo on my blog is called 'The Flammarion Engraving.' Though, there is an interesting backstory to it if you'd like to know more about it.

The only thing known about the artwork is that it is from Camille Flammarion’s (1842–1925) book titled: 'L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire', (1888) which in English translates to: 'The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology'.

The artwork is actually not a painting, but a woodwork carving used with a Burin tool as shown in the diagram below:

|Mid–17th century French Burin 'Cold Chisel' later to be called an 'engraver' in English. Source: Wikipedia

What is most interesting about the Artwork is that the origin of the Artist is still unknown and yet to be determined. It is speculated that Flammarion himself did the carving, however– the image depicts different image characteristics from different historical periods; some art Historians, such as Erwin Panofsky, date the engraving to the 16th century; while others, specifically Ernst Gombrich, date it to the late 19th century era.

According to historyofinformation.com:

"In Flammarion's L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire, the image refers to the text on the facing page (p. 163), which also clarifies the author's intent in using it as an illustration:"

"Whether the sky be clear or cloudy, it always seems to us to have the shape of an elliptic arch; far from having the form of a circular arch, it always seems flattened and depressed above our heads, and gradually to become farther removed toward the horizon.

Our ancestors imagined that this blue vault was really what the eye would lead them to believe it to be; but, as Voltaire remarks, this is about as reasonable as if a silk-worm took his web for the limits of the universe. The Greek astronomers represented it as formed of a solid crystal substance; and so recently as Copernicus, a large number of astronomers thought it was as solid as plate-glass. The Latin poets placed the divinities of Olympus and the stately mythological court upon this vault, above the planets and the fixed stars.

Previous to the knowledge that the earth was moving in space, and that space is everywhere, theologians had installed the Trinity in the empyrean, the glorified body of Jesus, that of the Virgin Mary, the angelic hierarchy, the saints, and all the heavenly host.... A naïve missionary of the Middle Ages even tells us that, in one of his voyages in search of the terrestrial paradise, he reached the horizon where the earth and the heavens met, and that he discovered a certain point where they were not joined together, and where, by stooping his shoulders, he passed under the roof of the heavens..."

"The same paragraph had already appeared, without the accompanying engraving, in an earlier edition of the text published under the title of L'atmosphère: description des grands phénomènes de la Nature ("The Atmosphere: Description of the Great Phenomena of Nature," 1872). The correspondence between the text and the illustration is so close that one would appear to be based on the other. Had Flammarion known of the engraving in 1872, it seems unlikely that he would have left it out of that year's edition, which was already heavily illustrated. The more probable conclusion therefore is that Flammarion commissioned the engraving specifically to illustrate this particular text, though this has not been ascertained conclusively." —historyofinformation.com

I provided the links and sources below if you'd like to read more about it!

|Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving#:~:text=Although%20sometimes%20referred%20to%20as,occur%20until%20after%20Flammarion's%20death.

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/stefano-gattei-original-fak1e-solving-mystery-flammarions-engraving

https://galileo.ou.edu/exhibits/atmosphere-popular-meteorology

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flammarion-engraving/

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mise-n-abyme · 5 months

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"Words are futile to a light which shines bright with ambiguity."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Musurgia Universalis, sive Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni'— Athanasius Kircher, 1650

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mise-n-abyme · 6 months

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「 We owe it to ourselves to live a good life, one of prosperity; one of integrity, of honor and devotion. To be a pupil and steward to the Brothers and Sisters still struggling to make it out of the dark. 」

"Through the journey, the Work is never completed; for it sheds layers upon each new beginning, pushing through the begrudging embers which we feel surrounds us, as greatness is made out of the most vulnerable of Man; to those whom are brave enough to have chosen to make this journey walk alone along the darkness where the end is seemingly nowhere in sight, and the shadows scream around one, dancing; flickering with illusion. This journey lies awakened in a constant battle of mere tribulation, where Man shall indeed witness the test of ones Might streak across a dimly emblazoned path of self–sacrifice; narrow, with subtle stability. Man wearingly proceeds along a tightrope to the path of ones destiny; the path of ones Will, reflecting illusions of shadows.

Shall one allow it to consume the formidable essence of their being, or shall they proceed to initiate an illumination of ones light; to cast a shadow of a few, yet be a fractal of many? It is there at the crossroads where it lingers once more, upon a stillness, performing it's dance amongst the darkness as it begins to dissipate; for it sees the light of Man now touching the edge of an ephiphany, one which greets an open field to the light of a new dawn. The realization of one who has survived tribulations of the night. A moment of rest insues; insight upon the danger of what could of been at a moment nearly out of sight. Through the rings of darkness, it lays dormant at the edge of the forest haze; giving its decrepitory gaze upon Man, as they shall too meet once again; but for now, beyond the face of a new phase, one begins their trek closest to the riddles end of its maze."

~Mise-n-abyme

Artwork: Alex Grey –'Nature Of Mind', 1995

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mise-n-abyme · 7 months

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"Our mistakes may only be temporary, but the wisdom it provides lasts forever."

~Mise-en-abyme

|Artwork: "Tree of Life", 1791

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mise-n-abyme · 9 months

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"Nothing to say nor do, but to be a visitor passing on through; beholding the mystery that is of you, with eyes that are golden blue, and words which cannot construe what lies here in this memory of moments so true. Your life is a virtuous school, repeating dissonant lessons until they are explained in full; receiving recognition between the blurred lines of perception, the understandings of this divine inception are seemingly unmeasurable circumstances captured by a progression of an immaculate deception."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'The Blessings Of Lord Buddha' — Chalermchai Kositpipat, 2006

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mise-n-abyme · 10 months

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"To intertwine within the experiences of this fabric of reality without judgement, without any clues of an identity or separation from it, projects a deeper focus on what it truly means to receive the gift to participate within this human experience. What may be realized now is that no amount of ideological structure or conclusions can come close to this essence; that the very words and sentences of our understanding of literal and metaphorical language cannot fathom its ever-expanding pervasiveness which shrouds around us in each subtle moment of being.

We spend great deals in conferring solutions to what this existence might mean to us; we patent this meaning with a stamp of objectivity in hopes that it may align with our narrow scope of understanding, yet this small understanding is met with a wider perception of what we truly do not know. We are then met with the realization that what little we know is of nothing at all, as not even the smallest drop of wisdom penetrates onto the surface of this world; it is the reality of the unknown which drives man into desolation, the realization that we have no control over life but with the control of Will and reactions which may come to face. A life bounded by the restraints of the human condition; the mental faculties of what we do not know is possible and what could indeed be possible."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'The Chakras of the Subtle Body' —Unknown | Nepal, 18th century

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mise-n-abyme · 11 months

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"—I prayed for strength, and life gave me hard times at my weakest.

—I prayed for happiness, and life gave me sorrowful times.

—I asked for forgiveness, and I received ridicule and blame from others for all my mistakes.

—I prayed to change the world, and ended up becoming the product of the world."

"Life did not punish me, or play a cruel sick joke. Life answered my callings with its own; no strength can come without first being weak, no happiness can be felt without first knowing true sorrow; no forgiveness can arise without first forgiving yourself, and no change can occur to the world without first creating the change in yourself. To seek life, to know life; we must accept death. Experience death in ourselves and in the expectations we perceive life to be. To be born again, one must be annihilated—to experience death in what one perceived themselves to be and realize the masqueraded existence of ones illusion.

To undergo change, we must peer beneath the curtained mirror, as it is ultimately us that can only change ourselves. It is what you do in your circumstances which define who you truly are. What you choose to see at your darkest hour and what you choose to be, life does not punish you but prepares you for what's yet to come."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Awen' — Silk Alchemy, Unknown

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mise-n-abyme · 1 year

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「"Whenever, and wherever, The Grace of Death may come to sweep me upon the shroud of Its domain, I will be sure to pour out everything and all things considered of my past battles and tribulations— describing my last moments of this human experience and what it has taught me within this School of Life.

The lifetimes I have gained and the twilight of fading into a subtle oblivion will whisper the highlight of my essence; emitting retribution along the hazy gust of a steadily flowing breeze, where all which needed to be seen has been sought; and all which needed to be heard has been returned.

I will die alone upon my journey. As Its Grace out stretches Its bitterly–mutilated cold and decrepit hand upon mine, it guides me towards Its one truest journey onto the direction of the horizon. There lies a doorway to that which we seek to discover, to the journey we all must face; one which must be traversed alone, for no other path may lead us down into our rite of passage which we have consciously, and contentiously, sewn. Within this syncopated silence, I will transition through the crevices beyond Unity and Separation, Good and Evil, Illusion and Delusion; what is and what will be and what was, and what never was.

Alas, now I am free to roam; unscathed and unvanquished. I peel the final face from a masqueraded existence, yet here I remain, boundless; to marvel at pure ecstasy. To expect nothing is to gain everything, it is here where I then begin again; and so it may be, when there becomes a reflection to see, that reflection will then be of me."」

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: Lourry Legarde— 'Dark To Light', 2015

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mise-n-abyme · 1 year

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"It has always been the endurance of suffering which makes the Man."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Allegory of Impermanence' (Vanitas) — Hieronymus Wierix, ~1619

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mise-n-abyme · 1 year

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"True success is found in those whom have experienced life, yet still retained within them their childlike innocence."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Wonder' – Alex Grey, 1996

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