Raven Moon 25117 digital painting/collage – © 2017 – Howard Faxon
Raven moon is a loose mythic idea. The works all have ravens, which are really pictures of crows, and moons in them. I have a lot of pictures of the moon and lot’s of pictures of crows. The ravens in these works are the tricksters, the watchers, the carriers of messages between worlds, … those kind of ravens. I am tying out different color schemes and environments around this very broad and undefined idea.
Here is one of the ‘Raven Moon Series’ that has an additional element representing the Pacific Northwest where I live. More of this series will show up here regularly.
Interesting concept, we don’t have ravens in New Zealand
If Edgar Allan Poe would have seen your photo mashups, then he would not say nevermore.
Another very interesting work. There are many interesting things in the picture
I like to hide little surprises in them to be discovered as one looks.
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I do like it. I spent quite some time trying to separate item.
Thank s so much. They do suffer at the small size as they are meant to print large. There is a bit better of a view here and an enlargement feature for detail. https://glen-faxon.pixels.com/featured/raven-moon-251117-glen-faxon.html
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The raven is my favorite part of this one. Great job again.
Thanks Carol. It appears along with others in many of my collages. The original photo is striking. The bird stood still for once and I was able to fill the frame with it. The feathers were visible which is often hard on a black bird. They are really crows I must confess. They came around daily. Cheers
Very good mix of images.
Thank you so very much Linda. Thanks for visiting !
once again the mix of objects is interesting.
I wonder what the raven is thinking…
Most of the time in my work it is probably ‘WTF you guys. What are you doing?” These (and there will be more) are just representing a time of change I guess.
change is a topic I love!
It represents the reality of the IT world I live in during the day!
Enormous changes at the last minute. It seems to speed up in the IT world especially. I didn’t have to stop paying attention long to become nearly clueless. I almost asked if VR is on the market the other day …Fear no change!
Change is the chance to fix the things broken the first time.
Stupendous photographic collage work. Yes I see the blue raven and the First Nations statue. One question: you say you reside in the Pacific Northwest. Are you Canadian born and raised? If not, that is OK but I am just inquiring.
No I’m not Canadian born and raised. There is at least one Canadian flag always flying downtown here though. I’m on the Olympic Peninsula.
I wanted to separate the birds from the negative lore. Not a psychopomp, not Apollo’s messengers and symbol of bad luck, not the northern European evil portent associated with witches, not the unclean of Genesis, not a symbol of death and misfortune. — More like the Druid raven, or the raven of the Americas, in many places there is both good and bad lore. These are not the bad guys.
Oh, what is the blue raven? Is it something from folklore? I only know of a story of a white raven. There is a company called “Blue Raven”.
What I meant, unless I am getting totally color blind, your ravens in the picture seem to have a blue color hue to them… I am sorry if I am mistaken…
No, not mistaken. I wondered if the blue was significant to any folklore or such. Partly it is from the black photographed in bright sun. Tends to go blue a bit. It’s also perfunctory in that the orange brown background is on the dark side. — I’m in the process of reading your articles and like them very much.
Very good idea , Thank you for sharing
Thank you so very much Witty. Nice to see you!