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This is from a tutorial I did for my Schoolism class. I've done a bit more work on it since then (it would have been a 20 hour tutorial otherwise).



My wife wrote a poem that inspired me as I worked on this. It's about what it means to be an artist, I'll include it here in hopes that it may inspire some of you as well:



Teinoscope

(Physics) An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; - called also prism telescope.



I have seen you standing still beneath

rapid clouds at dusk, collecting the light,

drawing the gathered radiance in like breath.



You store it everywhere—as lines, faces,

in crowded notebooks—till it spills out, bright,

new-made. Is this creation, these mixed pieces,



When patched-together, conglomerate, they

emerge like sparks from your hands, lightened

and whole?

Some men stockpile days



Like weapons, against the cataclysm.

From you, the stored scraps of collected light

leak like constant suns. And what wrought prisms



allow these sudden visions: myself, made

larger and more beautiful, all the bright

fragments ripened and mingled, naked, laid



like webs of stars together? Those saved skies

reﬂected back to me, mirrors on mirrors,

A tiny universe within your eyes?

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Published : Sep 28, 2012