Dawn Light

 

Dawn Light © Stewart Weir 2012

“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one’s head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one’s heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so” – Frances Burnett

Atlantic

Atlantic, Devon © Stewart Weir 2004

Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to go, said the Cat. I don’t much care where said Alice. Then it doesn’t matter which way you go said the Cat. So long as I get somewhere Alice added as an explanation. Oh, you’re sure to do that, said the Cat, if you only walk long enough.

Lewis Carroll, ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

No Words – Nahf, Israel

Arab boys, Nahf, Israel © Stewart Weir 2010

Petit Filous

Petit Filous (Little Rascal) © Stewart Weir 2012

“Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his self importance. The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That is personality and individuality and self-respect — the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours — and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense.”  H.P. Lovecraft

Lovers, Trees & Music .. …

Brighton Beach Lovers – Under The Pier © Stewart Weir 2005

It all seems so very long ago now. From 2001 until 2008 I walked the beaches of Brighton just getting lost in thought and taking the occasional image. It became and still is my meditation but now I walk in woods instead of on the beach. Gone are the lovers and seagulls and now its the time of the tree. Its funny how I’ve drifted creatively.

Looking through my work it has evolved (as it should) but I’ve got no idea where it’s heading right now. Im never happy with what I produce and find fault easily but thats my drive to create that one image that I get a shiver down my spine and think YES!

The Beach Lovers series was produced listening to 2 Pac (Picture Me Rollin), The Foo Fighters (Aurora) and Puddle Of Mud (Blurry). The woodlands project is being produced listening to Godspeed (09-15-00), Esmerine (Snow Day For Llasa) and Tool (10,000 Days). Musical taste moves with the creative  journey I guess.. …

Woodlands & Trees © Stewart Weir 2011

上野

Ueno, Tokyo © Stewart Weir 2002

“In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can’t help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They’re very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you’re there”  Bill Murray

Wisdom

Veins © Stewart Weir 2012

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom” – E O Wilson

Ealing Night

Ealing Night © Stewart Weir 2012

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – “If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against. He lives in the “House of the Gathering.” Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day.” – Carl Jung

Jesus Isn’t Happy

Amsterdam Fashion Week © Stewart Weir 2008

We kill people more efficiently, we travel faster and further, the wealthy are wealthier and the poorest are as poor as they ever have been. The Earth is being raped for the financial benefit of the few, to satisfy the masses because the masses have been taught to want today what they can’t really afford. Nature is being modified because ‘we can’ and our arrogance will possibly be our future undoing.

Christmas has become nothing more than an exercise in consumerism or rather an end of year blow out not for our benefit, but for the multi nationals who rely on a few weeks of sales to make a profit. I like every other person grudgingly accepts this and yet does nothing about it. However, I want the idea of Christmas to change to where it should be… and its not for the benefit of any company.  Real compassion and love for each other and nature and it should last the whole year (and a day) and not just for Christmas. Does anybody actually think beyond what they will get for Christmas and whether the Turkey will taste good?

Whilst there are many good things today they don’t outweigh what is fundamentally wrong. People have no real power to change anything that the minority decides is ‘best’ for us all. Religions corrupted hundreds of years ago through greed of power and people turned against people in the name of their God and 2,012 years later I can’t imagine that Jesus is very happy.

© Stewart Weir 2012

Homeless, London © Stewart Weir 2012

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas”.  Calvin Coolidge 

Everything is yours, but .. …

Brighton Beach Lovers series © Stewart Weir 2006

“The situation of the soul in contemplation is something like the situation of Adam and Eve in paradise. Everything is yours, but on one infinitely important condition: that it is all given. There is nothing that you can claim, nothing that you can demand, nothing that you can take. And as soon as you try to take something as if it were your own you lose your Eden”.  - Thomas Merton