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and the Self Portrait Project continues.... with words from sister @faringpurth - "There is something volatile happening in me. Or brutally vital. I can feel my pulse calling me to dance, run, break bottles, show teeth, & ignore ALL the rules. My filthy,
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Latest painting in the Self Portrait project... enjoy. "I have this theory, that if we're told we're bad, Then that's the only idea we'll ever have, But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, Someday we will become what we see', Cause anyone can start a co
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(writing from 2 weeks ago/ painting made after in the last few days) "Beauty"- In this current place of struggle, overwhelmed with feelings of hopelessness... with a desperate need for salvation or at least relief, I find myself strangely drawn towards be
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Accidentally ended up in artist @Oliver_Vernon 's studio today. I was moved by his beautiful paintings, but moved that much more by his radiant smiling sincere humble nature. Pictured in the background, recent collaboration piece by Vernon with artists Ma
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The Self Portrait Project continues... "Struggle, Salvation, Saints and Sinners"-- Within struggle, it is her image that I find myself turning to for inner equanimity, while the world outside feels as if it’s falling apart. As it is. Why her, I do not kno
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another process pic in yesterday's latest Selfie... strange definitions of 'yellow'-- having the color of the sun or of ripe lemons : afraid in a way that makes you unable to do what is right or expected : containing news that is meant to shock people
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The Selfie Project... another beginning. Let us see where this goes... #art #selfie #akirabeard #fineart #selfportrait #oilpaint #painting #wip #caliart
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The Selfie Project continues... #15 in progress. #art #akirabeard #miyabeard #painting #oilpaint #fineart #wip #selfie #selfportrait #thanksgiving
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Painting studies beginning with this piece, now available on Etsy. I will announce as more are posted. Please follow the link for more info. https://www.etsy.com/shop/AkiraBeardArt?ref=search_shop_redirect #art #fineart #akirabeard #painting #portrait #de
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'Eros'... The ending is only the beginning she said to me. She can have no idea the extent to which the meaning these words held, where my life would transform into what felt like completion. The closest word I can find to describe it is destiny. A destin
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It was a long ride, traveling by bus then train cross country from NY to CA. I overheard the passenger in front of me confess to someone over the phone how she was bored and lonely. This after more than 24 hours on this train. I thought to try and ease bo
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The Selfie Project continues... "#14". Man's search for himself. There is the idea of who we are. And when that idea is challenged by forces outside of ourselves, the ideas often leave and what remains? With the interest of coming to know one's self, ever
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The Selfie Project continues on this Friday night... "The unexamined life is not worth living"- Socrates #art #portrait #painting #selfie #saint #oilpaint #wip #artstudio #brooklyn #bkart #akirabeard
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My spiritual birthplace, San Francisco, named after my favorite Saint, Francis of Assisi. Paying homage often somewhere in my thoughts, today I begin a painting expressing this gratitude. #art #akirabeard #portrait #oilpaint #saint #assisi #sf #wip
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The Selfie Project... "#11" finished. For inquiries email ashleybrooketwomey@alwaysbetonsek.com ) The world feels to me insincere. So much pretending to be other things than the truth of how one feels or thinks to others. I've come to place highest v
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The Self Portrait Project continues... "Selfie Saint" in progress. Its one of those transitional phases currently, with everything at the bottom rising to the top. Just when I spot a hint of light, forget and become hopeful, just as sudden darkness oversh
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"Dissonance into Harmony into Dissonance"- ink, gloss, acrylic on Yupo Paper (2015) #art #abstract #yupo #painting #akirabeard #black #white #grey
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Self Portrait 11... another progress shot. It all begins with self. We live in a world that manipulates towards purposes unconcerned for the well being of the individual, those that take knowing themselves for granted. Be aware. You could be under the inf
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The Self Portrait Project... work in progress of the beginning stage for painting "11". Know thyself-- It didn't happen over night, but a point came where I would undergo all sorts of transformation when I began to ask those questions of who am I. Answers
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The Self Portrait Project... paintings from the inside out. "8", oil on canvas, 12"x16", 2015. For inquiry or further info please email ashleybrooketwomey@alwaysbetonsek.com #art #selfie #portrait #selfportrait #painting #oilpaint #color #akirabeard #nyar
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Head Study in oil paints. "Protect ya Neck"... For inquiry please contact ashleybrooketwomey@alwaysbetonsek.com #art #oilpaint #portrait #head #painting #color #akirabeard
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"Incarnate"-- possessing bodily form, esp the human form (english dictionary defintion). #art #acrylic #abstract #akirabeard #incarnate #soul #psyche
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"Phantom"- Its the word that comes to mind, when the entirity of one's life is brought to the spotlight of their awareness. Everything surrounding it, falls into the shadows as distractions that one identified with in senseless occupation filling every ti
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"Bardo Landscape"- mixed media on yupo paper, 2015. "It is from the ashes of suffering that a Phoenix can rise"- Somebody once said so... #art #acrylic #ink #abstract #akirabeard #bardo #chaos #sunset #phoenix
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"Saint II"- oil on wood. This piece, along with similar others noted in the following days are priced on a sliding scale making it accessible to anyone's income that would like to have the piece but may feel not able. These expressions made from and for a
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"Saint I"- oil on wood. (for info on inquiries please contact ashleybrooketwomey@alwaysbetonsek.com) --When nearly all had been lost, and I was in that space of transition where the future is never as delicate with the choices made in that moment... I did
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..Saint @sek3 of Dogs making some adjustments to my portrait of him. Made complete as a collaboration. #art #abstract #yupo #watercolor #acrylic #akirabeard #sekira #nyart
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portrait of Saint @sek3 of Dog's brain... (watercolor on yupo) #art #yupo #watercolor #akirabeard #brain #nyart #painting
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painting by Saint @sek3 of Dogs, with words by Akira Beard. The Inner chilD-- The inner child… the guide on the life path paved in eternal mystery each step forward. The child skips wildly in abandonment to its every edge, laughing. The adult hesitating,
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Homage to Saint Francis of Assisi... collaboration piece with $aint @sek3 of Dogs. "Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance."- St. Francis. I felt loneliness, with hunger. On a train in the NY subway lost in myself without
