UNIVERSAL FREEDOM IS......

GEORGE KROKOS

Freedom from hunger and freedom from pain,

freedom from loss and so freedom from gain.

Freedom to give and freedom to share,

freedom from want and that of despair.

Freedom to think and freedom the know,

freedom to achieve and freedom to grow.

Freedom from bondage and freedom of liberation,

freedom from ignorance and any unknown situation.

Freedom to come and freedom to leave,

freedom to stay and freedom to conceive.

Freedom from struggle and freedom of ease,

freedom to enjoy and the capacity to please.

Freedom from failure and freedom of success,

freedom from denial and freedom of access.

Freedom from illusion and freedom of reality,

freedom to become what we are in actuality.

Freedom to live and freedom to die,

freedom to laugh and freedom to cry.

Freedom to speak and freedom to listen,

freedom to act based on wise decision.

Freedom from hate and freedom of love, 

freedom to below and freedom of above.

Freedom of the past and freedom of the present,

freedom of the future and what it can represent.

Freedom form war and freedom of peace,

freedom to begin and freedom to cease.

Freedom from sickness and freedom of health,

freedom from poverty and mishandled wealth.

Freedom from wrong and freedom being right,

freedom of the day and freedom of the night.

Freedom to choose and freedom to reject,

freedom to imagine what there is to expect.

Freedom from wrong and freedom from greed,

freedom from anger and freedom from breed.

Freedom from jealousy and freedom from pride,

freedom from within and freedom from outside.

Freedom of always not having anything to hide.

Freedom from space and also freedom from time, 

freedom from attachment and freedom from crime.

Freedom to work and freedom to play,

freedom to believe and freedom to pray.

Freedom to experience a rebirth someday.

Freedom from the body and freedom from the mind,

freedom from the ego and freedom from being blind.

Freedom of transcendence being of the spiritual kind.

UNIVERSAL FREEDOM IS ETERNAL AND INFINITE BLISS

WE SHOULD ALL THEREFORE BE ABLE TO REALISE THIS.

Katie

       

FREEDOM

                                                                

Katie

Artist Mark Quinn...By Paris

Since 2005 Quinn has become known to the general public for his sculpture of Alison Lapper, which was on prominent display on a plinth in Trafalgar Square in front of the National Gallery.



It was part of his series "The Complete Marbles", eleven life-size portrait sculptures of men and women who were born with physical disabilities or have had limbs amputated due to accidents or illness.
Quinn had previously made several sculptures using fragments cast from his own body, as in The Etymology of Morphology 1996, or his body deformed through sculptural process in No Visible Means of Escape IV 1996, before he was inspired to work with actual physical deformity.
Looking at fragmented classical sculptures in the British Museum, he wondered how viewers would respond to bodies that had been damaged during their lifetime rather than after being transformed into objects through artistic representation. He explained:

"It’s about the difference between art and life. Also about inside and outside and how people impute an inside to someone from a reading of their outside ... Traditionally marble is the medium of cultural and social acceptance and celebration ...the marble is used ironically and non-ironically at the same time. The sitters are heroes who have conquered their own interior worlds, and yet disabled people are invisible culturally, in art history. I wanted to celebrate them and use the medium in its original way as well."
(Quoted in Marc Quinn, p.60.)

Quinn contacted sporting associations in order to find disabled people with bodies that were well developed and maintained. He cast each person in plaster before Italian craftsmen copied the casts in the whitest possible marble, selected to represent a kind of Platonic perfection. He commented: ‘this marble, which comes from Macedonia, is like the idea of marble. It’s even bad taste, beautiful in a way that’s almost nauseating ... I wanted it to be absolutely clean, to be super real, hyper-real.’ (Quoted in Marc Quinn 2002, [p.39].) The subjects are depicted in semi-heroic attitudes, the result of a compromise between the model’s need for comfort and the artist’s requirement for a dynamic, positive pose that would highlight the strength of the character portrayed.

Alison Lapper (eight months pregnant) with the artist


Alison Lapper and her son Parys

New technology- 4D Scans.

 Pregnancy is a very personal topic to myself as i am currently pregnant. There are three types of scans given through-out a womans pregnancy originally two but a new growth scan has been recently introduced to take place during the early stages of the third trimester. In the first trimester a first scan is given and checks for a heart beat and checks on the current state of the baby, i,e if feet, hands, eyes important organs are functioning correctly, also a down syndrome test is taking. In the 2nd trimester a second scan is given this can tell the sex of the baby and also a check to see if there is any abdormalities.

by Paris

Pregnancy by Paris...