Simple Sunday Picture Challenge Considers The Legend of Giants!
Welcome to the CPC’s
Simple Sunday Picture Challenge!
This week we are featuring Polish artist Natalia Rak.
She seems to specialize in art which gives the appearance
of having been drawn into photographs to create interesting effects.
Her DeviantArt bio reads:
Born in 1986. A graduate of Fine Arts in Lodz.
The Diploma of Spatial and Poster Design in Professor Slawomir Iwanski atelier.
Is passionate about painting since 10 years.
For two years associated with streetart. Participated in several
group exhibitions in Poland, among others
First Streetart Auction in Poland -Rempex Gallery in Warsaw.
She paints the many faces of women.
In her colorful paintings creates a mood, mystery and metaphor.
Exhibitions and Festival which I participated:
2009 – Group Exhibitions at Fourth floor Gallery in Lódz
2010 – Graffiti happening in Zgorzelec entitled “Different histories, join future”
2011- Scabb Festival in Turek
2011 – First Polish Auction of Street Art at Remex Gallery in Warsaw
2011 – The exhibition called “2..1..0..go” at BWA in Skierniewice
2012 – “Drawing and Sculpture” group exhibition in Kobro Gallery in Lódz
2012 – collaboration painting on “Public Provocation” in the Carhartt Gallery in Weil am Rhein
2012- Scabb Festival in Turek
2012 – Festival Walk&Talk in Azores
2012 – Festival “All you ca paint” in Halle
2012- Stroke Urban Art Fair in Berlin
2012 -Exhibition of Polish artists in Intoxicated Demons Gallery in Munich
2012- The Ride Gallery, USA
2013- The Best of diploma 2012. Central Museum of Textile, Lodz
2013- No name Fest, Fleury-les-aubrais, France
2013- Nowa Sól
2013 -“Cash Cans & Candy” in Gallery Ankerbrotfabrik in Vienna
2013- Art Whino, USA, Richmond
2013-SCABB, Turek
2013- LAC, Lagos nataliarak.blogspot.com/
Our featured image is one of her most recent
and is titled “The Legend of Giants.”
Write what your poetic muse sees in or imagines from this image
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Welcome to the Simple Sunday Picture challenge featuring Natalia Rak and her “The Legend of Giants.”
THE LEGEND OF GIANT LITTLE NATALIE
A wonderful, inspirational story
is told to children in the East.
It is known as The Legend of Giant Little Natalie.
Natalie was a little girl who loved trees.
When there was a draught,
she would wander the roads, byways and farmlands
with her watering can,
She is said to have saved
many thousands of trees,
until one dark day, while scurrying to safety
in a horrid thunderstorm,
she was struck by lightning and died.
Ever since,
certain farmfolk in Natalie’s town
have claimed that at various times,
during such-and-such a draught,
a giant Little Natalie could be seen
watering the parched trees from above
with a giant watering can.
Was it her ghost?
An angel?
Or just a shadow
projected huge onto a wall.
No one knows for sure.
But the curious thing
to this very day,
no trees in Natalie’s town
ever die,
except of old age or disease.
Nor are townspeople liable
to cut any down.
And there is much speculation
as to why the town
has the most beautiful trees
in all the land.
The townspeople know.
Fanciful Freeform Story Poem
Copyright September 28th 2013 RGD
THE LITTLE TREE
~^~
The girl be flowin it would seem
Happy happy enjoyin what she do
Little trees that
She so waters
Grow fast they do
All in a row
One smaller than the other
And pretty as kin be
Water can held high as she pours
Standin by the house
The house would seem bigger than the trees
So she tends to them everyday
Grow my little trees
The giant girl with the orange hair
And ruby red cheeks
Said as so
Cared for the trees
Daily as they grew health and so strong
~^~
Written By: Bettie Davis ———————————— © September 29 , 2o13
Archived image unavailable
“The Legend of Giants” by Natalia Rak
JUST BEING ME
Sometimes I can’t help but feel
so very insignificant and small,
rather wary of the world
and retreating from it all,
feeling somewhat invisible
to those who pass by
even though I look at them
right sqare in the eye
and say “How do you do
on this bright sunny day”
before going on my way.
But not a word back
from them do I hear,
not a glance
nothing indicating
that they even heard
even one of the words
I said passing by
or saw the smile
on my face
or the small tears
beginning to well up
in my eyes.
But I suppose it’s all
a matter of degree,
the things that I see
and the things
that tend to bother me,
trying so hard not to allow
things to spoil my day
or make me feel down.
But sometimes I feel
on top of the world,
so brave and so confident,
the me I’d much rather be,
happily spending
the time that I have
tending to my garden
of friends and of flowers,
that place that’s exactly
what I want it to be
and where I can
always be me
within the reality I see
while I’m just being me.
(c) barbara kausteklis 9-29-13