The Crow's Treasures

© Sybille Sterk

Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

This is a digital collage of images from various (vintage) resources, including some I bought, some which are in the public domain and some from The Graphics Fairy. I added my own flair and and imagination and a little magic to make this. 

It tells a story. What do you think it is about?

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The Cost of Flying - More Steampunk

© Sybille Sterk

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This is quite a personal image to me. I am scared of heights and I'd love to fly just so I won't have to be scared of falling. However, this is also a conceptual image, about the dangers involved in flying (free), hence the scissors, on the other hand flying is it's own reward (hence the keys). Anything we do has a cost and unfortunately nothing is free but too often we feel the dangers even before we get close to experiencing them.

Images from a disc of royalty free public domain vintage images, with my own photos and brushes and a few freebies mixed it, all coloured and mashed up by me.

I'd love to know what you think about the image, so drop me a line or leave a comment. :-)

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Between Heaven and Earth

You may remember that I was 'head hunted' by the Trillium Gallery

a while ago. Some of my images are available as prints and framed/matted art.

Maureen, the owner of the  Trillium Gallery, was keen for me to showcase some of my more controversial art in the gallery. She liked it so much, she created a video to show it off properly. I am still totally flabbergasted by the amazing video she made, by the words she put to go with it and by the music created by Steve Rust. It made me see my own art in a totally new light.

Here are the page and video for you to see.

It uses images from the following series:

Fall from Grace

Almost Rock, Paper, Scissors

Bound I, II, II and IV
Prints of all the images are available on Trillium Gallery

Almost Rock, Paper, Scissors

Almost Rock, Paper, Scissors

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A  variation on my rock, paper, scissors theme. There is something magical and almost occult about this game. The feather seemed the perfect addition. I wonder how it would fit into the game? Would it beat all the others, sort of like a joker? When could you use it? Why would you use it? For really important issues, sort of get one win in a hundred free? :-)

What do you think? I'd love to hear your ideas. :-) ♥

All my own images except for polaroid frames which are courtesy of fuzzimo

Rock, Paper, Scissors

 

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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0244

Rock, Paper Scissors is one of those things that have always fascinated me, but until I looked it up just now, I didn't realise how truly old it is: the first mention dates back to the time of the Chinese Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). This is my interpretation of the game.

Check it out here

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

This Is Wonderland

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I've always had a thing about Alice in Wonderland. I love the utter whimsy of it and the way it plays and grows in my head. Here's another interpretation with the lovely Jessica Truscott as the 'centre piece'.

First proper image in a week as I've been ill. :-(

This image partners well with This is the Sea

Credits

Red silk14 by faestock

Hair brush set by para-vine

All other images are my own.

Cut Me

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This one is an interpretation of Rapunzel, still going with the fairytale theme here.... Made me think about hair and how the power is 'ours' as long as we cut it, but not when someone else cuts it, then it diminishes us (i.e. what they used to do to women to 'mark' them as prostitutes). I remember some fairytales I read a long time ago, where the only way to 'cure' a witch was by cutting off her hair, she'd become a normal woman then. There is power in hair and the length of it...

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0176

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Rapunzel's Lament

Re-telling of the fairy tale Rapunzel - my way. See the poem here.

This was created in part to accompany my poem of the same name and as an entry in a challenge for the Photo Manipulator's group on Redbubble.

Unfortunately I was too late to enter my image, but I thought 'since I've started, I might as well finish'. :-)

One stipulation of the challenge was to use all the images from the following image set on Flickr:

Credits

Model

• bond girl18 by rammkitty-stock

Stock and Background

• scissors II by missalmost000
• Braid by NiennaAlatariel
• frame 1 by night-fate-stock

Textures

• Garden by SolStock
• mossy wall by thespook
• psychosomatic texture by Princess-of-Shadows
• Texture 57 by Inadesign-Stock
• Texture 4c by lusete

Brushes

• Hair brush set by para-vine

All other images, textures, brushes, stock my own.

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Perdu - Painting

This is my latest (finished) painting.

Perdu - forgotten, out of sight, French

The painting is about aging and lost beauty (not just physical beauty), which only continues to exist in our memories and thoughts.

It has been inspired by the three fates from Norse mythology: Wyrd, Skuld and Verdandi. Their Roman equivalents are the Parcea: Nona, Decima and Morta. In Greek mythology they are known as the Moirae: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.

All three mythologies agree that one of the three fates would spin the thread, the other would measure it and the last one would cut it, measuring out the fates of mortals and defining their destiny.


The two birds are Odin's ravens, Memory and Thought.


The tree necklace pendant is meant to represent Yggdrasil - the world ash of Norse mythology.


Here is the spindle, a tape measure with a Greek reference (alpha for the beginning of a life and omega for the ending of a life) and the scissors used to cut the thread. The scissors are based on a design from the T'ang dynasty.

Although not that many people still know much about the three fates, I've always been fascinated by them and some authors are too: Stephen King's Insomnia and Robin Jarvis' Wyrd Museum trilogy are just two of them, I am sure there are others.

The image is available as a print on RedBubble.