Art Is Freedom
2025, Homme Made, Dundee Law, XLife
This year’s theme, Birds of a Feather art project, centers on unity and embracing the creative journey with faith in oneself. Through an intuitive process, blending discipline with spontaneity, it seeks to craft symbolic and thought-provoking pieces that feel both personal and universal. The project celebrates unplanned creativity, inviting us to flow with life’s twists and turns, embracing them with passion and humility. Following last year’s Rosehip, White Rose art project—which reflected ideals of love and kindness over anger, violence, and hate—this project continues to explore unity and understanding. By shining light on a world filled with confusion, fear, and pain, it encourages us to embrace the light within, let go of rigid expectations, and trust life’s serendipitous paths with humility. AI, Updated 2025-03-30.
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The snow, a barren, merciless white, Choking paths, erasing sight. Signs shout stern—No Trespassing, One Way, Cold warnings steal choice. LEGURE POOG, a watchful guise, Bound by rules, under frozen skies. A bridge too far, a tree laid bare, Winter’s breath whispers despair. Yet beneath frost’s harsh decree, A quiet call to destiny. The gloved hand marks a path unseen. Through icy trials, hope turns serene. Signs may bind, yet hearts transcend. Through silence blooms a brighter end. One way forward, one truth stays. In snow’s grip, spring finds its ways...
Birds of Feather
beneath the still and frozen skies,
snowflakes fall, and dreams arise.
A snow angel spreads his wings in light,
A beacon against the encroaching night.
His feathers catch the overcast day,
Whispering hope in winter’s haze.
But shadows stir, and darkness creeps
through frost-kissed woods
where silence sleeps.
Yet even when the night prevails,
His light endures, while loneliness entails,
For in his wings lies faith unspoken,
A light that mends what
night has broken.
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