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Pieces marked with an asterisk (*) are available in specially formatted versions as desktop wallpaper!

23~ii *

Several years ago, an old high school friend died quite suddenly and tragically. After getting home from the funeral, after seeing so many of the old friends that I hadn't seen for so many years, and in that solemn state of mind, I just started idling away the time and my thoughts on a plain white graphic, and this is what I came up with, where those non-thoughts took me as I just played around with various effects. That funeral was only one of many that I had unfortunately been called to attend during those years, with the others all brought about for quite nearly the same reasons, and so this piece represents, to me, not only that passing on from this world, but Life, as well as the Circle of Life & Death, the endless waves of eternal experience, and so much more than just the Great White Light underlying everything, but the whole spectrum that we all discover in this existence... and beyond.

On a lesser, more lighthearted and autobiographical note, this piece might also be considered an ode to all those old school buddies and the memories of the bacchanalia that was virtually the definition of our existence in those irresponsible days of our youth — and to them, as well as to that friend of ours who died and who no doubt looks fondly upon us all, the source for the title requires no explanation.

Victoria's Tears *

A reworking of one of my earliest pieces of the same name (which can be found on my Early Works page).

For Vicki.

Stalingrad

In honour and memory of all the men, women and children who died in that great, horrific, most decisive battle of battles: in the end, fallen comrades one and all, all lost to all humanity, through so much inhumanity.

And no, I'm not a Nazi, nor a Communist.

Stalingrad II *

By popular demand, with the first version of my Stalingrad tribute (above) being one of the favourites of my friends, family and others — and at the suggestion and urging of these — I re-worked the piece into a format specifically for desktop wallpaper.

A note to neo-Nazis: Did you arrive here at this page while doing a search for "Nazi wallpaper" (as seems to keep showing up in my stats)? Well, go for it, go ahead and download this one for your desktop, if you'd like — just remember that Stalingrad was the biggest, most foolish blunder of the Nazis, their worst defeat of the war, and probably the most decisive turning point against that terrible regime. This isn't a piece about Nazism so much, nor about Communism either, it's about the terrible waste of war, and all the sorrow it brings, and it is a memorial and tribute to all those who died in that greatest of battles of World War II.

Buddha Sunrise *

In March of 2001, the iconoclastic Taliban regime destroyed the 1500-year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan, the two largest statues of the Buddha ever created.

On September 11th, the twin towers of the World Trade Center were brought down in New York City by terrorist attacks.

And yet, the pair of giants — both pairs, and all that they (and their destruction) both represented — continue to live on in memory, and certainly now for all eternity. Contrary to their belief, the terrorists have not made martyrs of themselves, but rather have only brought to martyrdom all those that they killed, and all that they have destroyed.