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Helen McLaughlin Art

Done this week for a community art study of water. Itsukushima temple, Rebelle 7 Pro.
This is from a photo I took in 2009, and my third attempt at painting it. A loose, painterly approach proved much more successful this time around, instead of getting lost in the accuracy and detail of the architecture. I wanted the focus to be the water, anyway.

Time lapse: youtu.be/6B_Oiu6VqH0

Print: inprnt.com/gallery/helenmclaug

A digital painting of a Japanese temple in a bay. Red and white wooden buildings connected by walkways sit on stilts in the water, reflecting all their bright colours in busy, painterly ripples. A tall red pagoda rises up from the midst of trees in the background, the whole scene lit by a gentle, warm evening light.
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Kent Pitman

BBC offers video taken near Gounsa Temple, a large and historic Buddhist temple built in 618 AD, which they report as having "burned down" among raging wildfires in South Korea.

For some of us, our minds race, imagining ourselves there, what would we do? Measure the distance probably, decide if we're safe. We hope no action is required. If we're far enough away, we hope to decide we can go about our lives. This is not about us.

That a static measuring tool reassures us about a kinetic event is a hint about the kind of denial we're in. Too many people unconcerned about walls that are closing in, preferring to see it is a problem only for those closer to the walls. It fuels in our society a love of politicians willing to tell us that this will not affect us. No wonder alternative facts are so appealing.

If we can just be left alone to get through our own lives, surely it can be seen to be someone else's problem.

bbc.com/news/videos/c7982w809j

Large flames burning on hill behind temple
www.bbc.comSouth Korea: Historic Buddhist temple burns in wildfireThe wildfires in the country have left at least 18 dead and thousands evacuated
#climate#wildfire#wildfires
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