※SpinalGap24 ※

I'm home, yes, after another epic song & dance at hospital...their complete disertion and dereliction of duty appalls me...

Now though, I'm home, a time for reflection, and revertion...back to who I am, and back to the person I was before this hospital hell begun...back to my roots, and to the person who was free and comfortable...yes, back to the DRAWING board...which I love so much...this is me...

I got home less than an hour ago, and had an image for my humble poem, "Vision", so immedicately set about drawing this, and thus ignoring what the hospital have put me through this afternoon, indeed this whole weekend.

My healing begun the moment the ink touched the paper. I'm free again, free from pain in the drawing's scope...however, I will post this, take medicine, and go straight to bed, as my weakness will soon engulf me...the stresses and excesses of fighting for attention at hospital has drained me...unnecessarily, but that is Britain2006.

My mind is alive and positive, trying it's best to recover from two operations last month, (both major, one nearly severed my main nerve, one nearly finished me), and no pumped-up doctor is going to demoralise me now...

Goodnight and warm care to all.
Ed

“There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.”

-Hermann Hesse

I'm here, waiting in hospital...and thinking about human characteristics...human attitudes...and can we believe all we hear?
I'm wondering about many things these days...people, people, people...are they real?

Can we believe all we hear?

Well, this has comforted me today...

Good morning...and it must be good, because I'm able to see it...

yesterday offered good news, and something quite awful...the spinal check-up turned a beautiful dream into a living nightmare...as the spine was found to be doing well, but the grubby-handed doctor fiddled with my intricate spine as if on a building-site, touching that root nerve with as much delicacy as if it were a brick.

The pain from that nerve, (nearly severed barely a month ago), was horrendous. He went into the most intricate area of my hurt spine, and did something that sent a shock of pain right into my brain...the excess of which I cannot put into words...but I was left for 4 hours, unable to turn my head or move at all; in pain that was worse than the operations themselves...I am weak today, but thankful to be able to write about it...and this afternoon enter hospital again...heaven forbid...

I will try to reply all comments when my health permits...as posting this has used enormous effort, and I am still in extreme pain...

"Vision"

If you believe enough in the belief of others
and the distance of love to have faith in us
the soul of one will reflect the eyes of all
in the notes of a song playing around the world

Can you remember the dreams of childhood,
the dawn of hopes and sunrise pride
mid-morning journeys adding to midday thirst
love's first wine for buffet divine

Do you see the single forest or vigorous tree
as nature's heart of human potential
a canopy of protection in cover of crown
with jewel so precious, a shining star nonpareil

Is your soul upon the land or the seas
a castle in the sky or love upon the sands
palms and pines, men and women, together in obeisance
eyes south, hands north, times east, ticking west

As we tune to the same wavelength in equal timezone
loves longitudinal arc, lies our latitudinal heart
where contours meet with sea waves to greet
belief in you touches it's deepest moonlit hue.

written by lauren6

l'École de Nancy

The Town of Nancy, already rich of a XVIIIth century heritage, one and a half century later was the witness of a new dynamism in the field of decorative arts and became together with Paris, one of the most important places of Art Nouveau in France. Through the decisive impetus given by Emile Gallé, glass-maker, ceramicist and cabinet-maker, an alliance of artists and industrials of art gathered together in 1901 under the name of “Ecole de Nancy”. Using plants as a main source of inspiration, Gallé, Majorelle, Daum, Prouvé, Gruber, Vallin and others had conferred on art objects of an artistic quality and a new social dimension with a production where unique masterpieces keep close to industrial pieces. The original aspect of the Ecole de Nancy lies in the fact that there is a close bond between art and industry. This development is accompanied by technical innovations in fields tackled by these artist (glass, ceramics, textile, leather, metal) which allows the creation of new objects (in the design and in the materials used).

Nancy and its 1900 heritage

The Art Nouveau buildings by Emile André, Lucien Weissenburger and also by Henri Sauvage (architect of the Majorelle Villa) were able to create the artistic and functional spirit of the Ecole de Nancy in the urban space. More than one hundred buildings (commerce, coffee houses, apartment buildings, banks…) resolutely “new” are still important in the landscape of Nancy today. Settled in the old property of Eugène Corbin, - main patron of that time – the museum of the Ecole de Nancy collects together art objects (glass, ceramics, furniture, lights, bookbinding…) signed by the most important artists of the Ecole de Nancy. The Fine Arts Museum of Nancy hosts a collection of more than three hundred Daum glasses and presents a number of masterpieces of the painters of the Ecole de Nancy : Emile Friant, Victor Prouvé, Camille Martin and Henri Royer.

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Architecture Art nouveau
Points de repère

En 1901, l'École de Nancy, alliance provinciale des industries d'art, est officiellement créée. L'année 1901 marque aussi l'entrée de l'architecture nancéienne dans l'Art nouveau. Louis Majorelle confie au jeune architecte parisien Henri Sauvage la construction de sa maison personnelle, au chantier de laquelle sont associés les Nancéiens Jacques Gruber et Henri Royer, et les artistes parisiens Alexandre Bigot et Francis Jourdain. La Villa Majorelle sera rapidement considérée comme une oeuvre manifeste.

La même année, les architectes Charles et Émile André, en collaboration avec Jacques Gruber et Eugène Vallin, entament la construction des Grands Magasins Vaxelaire, inaugurant ainsi le cycle de modernisation du centre de la ville : commerces, établissements bancaires, brasseries et hôtels se feront désormais les hérauts de l'architecture et de la société nouvelles.
C'est encore en 1901 que les architectes Émile André et Henry Gutton dessinent le lotissement du parc de Saurupt sur le modèle résidentiel du Vésinet - une réponse, partiellement réalisée, à l'extension anarchique de la ville et aux nouvelles attentes de l'habitat urbain.
De ces expériences pionnières naîtront tout un registre de programmes, de typologies, de formes et d'éléments décoratifs - céramique architecturale, ferronnerie, vitrail... - qui marqueront durablement le paysage de la ville.

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Useful websites;

Ville de Nancy: Official Web Site
http://www.mairie-nancy.fr

Nancy: Tourist Office
http://www.ot-nancy.fr