TEARS LIKE DIAMONDS.

ECTOPLASM

2010-04-12T10:50:00.000-07:00

Ectoplasm is said to be produced by physical mediums when in a trance state. This material is excreted as a gauze-like substance from orifices on the medium's body and spiritual entities are said to drape this substance over their nonphysical body, enabling them to interact in our physical universe.

Ectoplasm is a term for a material coming out of a physical mediums's nose, ears & mouth. Any ectoplasm extruded forth from a bodily orifice by a physical-medium during s séance is typically re-absorbed into the same bodily orifice by that physical-medium during the same séance, either equally slowly as it was extruded or else more swiftly. A very swift re-absorption may be induced by sudden illumination of the scene (turning on the light or photo-flash), if the extrusion occurred in a totally darkened chamber. Not in all instances, however, is the extrusion induced in a totally darkened chamber (in which case the ectoplasm is often visible by means of its faint luminescence); in some instances (typically out-of-doors in a remote wilderness-site) it may occur in twilight, at dusk. Broad daylight, or even steady illumination (for photographic purposes) by infra-red or by ultra-violet illumination, does not appear to be known as conducive to observable (viz., to multiple ordinary observers) ectoplasmic extrusions. Indeed, even twilight manifestations of ectoplasm seem to occur only in the presence of a party of experienced psychic sensitives, and not in the presence of mere casual non-committed extraneous observers.

Although the term is widespread in popular culture, the physical existence of ectoplasm is not accepted by mainstream science. Some tested samples purported to be ectoplasm have been found to be various nonparanormal substances, including chiffon and flakes of human skin. Other researchers have duplicated, with non-supernatural materials, the photographic effects sometimes said to prove the existence of ectoplasm.

Source: WIKIPEDIA

Fish and Chips

2009-10-16T16:11:00.001-07:00

MOVEMENT

2009-08-06T04:53:00.000-07:00

Why so sad Lance??

2009-07-29T11:50:00.000-07:00

News of the world

2009-07-26T09:31:00.000-07:00

Bits and pieces I take from the newspapers everyday!

Eclipse in Asia: Under this picture you could read the story of an old man called Rackesh, from New Delhi. Rackesh told the journalist: " It's a unique expercience, because I'm not rich I've missed a lot of beautiful events in my life, but thank God all of us will have the chance to watch the eclipse".

This woman is an Israeli sex expert who previous to that was in the army. In a, for me surreal interview, she told the journalist:

"When I was in the army I thought about reducing my breasts but now I'm glad I didn't. They always provoke great interest and if they make people listen to what I'm saying, even better!"

Scenario: I small boat with immigrants arrive to the Spanish coast with an albino immigrant among them. In that same page you can read: " Volunteers in the area confirm that the relationship between the albino with the rest of the immigrants it's totally normal. We haven't noticed any kind of discrimination regarding the color of his skin"

And she was....

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Cut and paste

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Battersea

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Madrid-Ponferrada

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Berlin

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Unfinished portraits. (Javi)

2009-07-15T09:29:00.000-07:00

Lucía.

Butterflies in my stomach

2009-07-15T09:21:00.000-07:00

Lucía

2009-07-02T09:38:00.000-07:00

He thought: "This must be what women look like in real life! "

DIRTY POLAROIDS

2009-06-25T08:18:00.000-07:00

SEPARATED AT BIRTH BUT FINALLY REUNITED!!

EL SER Y LA NADA

2009-06-24T07:51:00.000-07:00

"Being and Nothingness "
Illustration: Lucía

DECONSTRUCT AND CONSTRUCT

2009-06-22T11:27:00.000-07:00

"Berlin Banhof Postdamer Platz" 2007

"London Hayworth Gallery" 2005

COLLAGES: Lucía

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

2009-06-22T07:38:00.000-07:00

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"Astral projection (or astral travel)refers to episodes of out-of-body experiences consider to involve an astral counterpart that separates from the physical body and travels to one or more astral planes. Astral projection is experienced as being a "out of the body"."

COLLAGE: Lucía
TEXT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection

SELF PORTRAITS

2009-06-19T06:20:00.000-07:00

I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?'

COLLAGES: Lucía.
TEXT: "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carrol.

STRUCTURE OF A DREAM. A SKETCH (II).

2009-06-17T09:42:00.000-07:00

Ferenczi Sándor proposed that the dream, when told, may communicate something that is not being said outright.

ANIMATION: Lucía

STRUCTURE OF A DREAM. A SKETCH.

2009-06-16T13:29:00.000-07:00

Animation. Lucia

2009-04-30T07:35:00.000-07:00

She was talking to me, she could be confessing a crime or delivering the answer to my question, one of the many questions I asked (without asking) in my dream.I couldn't see her eyes, I didn't even know now is she had any in the first place; She moved her lips slowly, as if she wanted me to understand every single word she was saying, but no sound came out of her mouth and even though I was paying attention I felt nothing was being said. The tension grew. I felt this woman was there, in front of me for a reason, an important reason I couldn't decipher .

I closed my eyes but still could hear her lips moving, she wouldn't stop moving her lips, rhythmically, like she was praying, but, could it be that? could it be just that she was praying to someone or something?, but then, why did I feel she was talking to ME?, that she was telling ME something? .....and indeed she was.

She was telling me a secret about something is yet to come. She told ME without saying a word, and was exactly what wasn't said what was important. It was an unknown, ancient and abstract kind of knowledge, it was there before I was born, before we were born. The kind of knowledge you can only understand in dreams, when you have previously abandoned yourself to sleep, to dreams, to the subconscious.

Text and Photographs: Lucia I.G

2009-04-28T13:28:00.001-07:00

I was at my mum's house, where I lived when I was younger. I was in my room and everything was exactly as they are in real life. It was winter, early in the morning and outside it was still dark.

I was looking at the building opposite mine and suddenly I decided to pull the curtains off.

I stayed there looking closely at this house and its windows and the first thing i saw was a kitchen, I could distinguish it because of the white tiles on the walls, there was also a little girl

of six or seven with a red ribbon on her hair, she was wearing a pony tail and looked as if she was waiting for her mum to finish her breakfast up. The window frames were green as they used to be before the house got restored in real life a few years ago.

In the other window, whose shutters were half closed I could gaze this woman's back, she was wearing a black bra and was getting dressed, even though she wasn't moving at allI knew she was getting dressed.

The next thing I remember was me in front of my wardrobe ready to get dressed to go to school; my wardrobe was full with clothes of many different colors and they were all piled up in columns across it, there wasn't any drawers inside.

I was picking the clothes from the wardrobe and throwing them om the bed as if I couldn't find anything that would suit me, after wards I decided to undress myself and tried to pull my trousers down but it proved to be impossible, they were too tight and when finally, they were down on my ankles they would tangled around them. After a big struggle I managed to get rid of them just to find out I was wearing a pair of black tights underneath, which proved to be as difficult to get off my body. When again, I got them off, there was another pair of tights that again were as difficult to get rid of...

At the beginning of the dream I felt lethargic, I felt exactly as I used to when I was little and had to wake up early in the morning in winter and was dark outside. I felt sleepy and uneasy thinking about going to school in the cold.

Transition from sleeping and dreaming in bed to waking up and confronting reality has always been a nearly traumatic experience for me, specially in winter and I could feel that clearly in my dream.

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Estaba en mi casa de Ponferrada en mi habitación de siempre y todo era exactamente igual a la realidad, era invierno, pronto por la mañana, fuera todavía de noche.
Yo estaba observando el edificio de en frente y decidí echar las cortinas. Me quedé observando detenidamente y vi primero la cocina de uno de los pisos, pude distinguirla por los azulejos blancos en las paredes, había una niña de unos seis años con un lazo en el pelo que parecía esperar a que su madre le terminara de hacer el desayuno. El marco de las ventanas eran de color verde.
En otra de las ventanas cuyas persianas estaban bajadas hasta la mitad, pude distinguir a una mujer de cuello para abajo que estaba de espaldas y que vestía un sujetador negro. Se estaba vistiendo, pero no había movimiento o acción, aun así yo sabía que ella se estaba vistiendo.
Acto seguido yo me dispuse a vestirme para ir a clase, los armarios estaban llenos de ropa de diferentes colores y apilada en columnas que ocupaban todo el armario, creo recordar que no había cajones. Cojía ropa del armario y a continuación la tiraba en la cama, como si lo que fuese sacando no me gustase. Después de eso decidí desvestirme y quitarme mis pantalones vaqueros, algo que resultó ser muy complicado, no podía bajármelos porque estaban muy ajustados y cuando por fin los tenía en los tobillos se me enredaban y ajustaban tanto que no podía pasarmelos por los pies; cuando por fin me los pude quitar vi que debajo tenía puestas unas medias negras que fueron igual de difíciles de quitar y cuando por fin me las pude quitar....otro par de medias debajo con el mismo resultado!
Acto seguido sonó el despertador y me tuve que levantar. La sensación al principio del sueño era de aletargamiento, me sentía igual que cuando era pequeña y tenía que levantarme y vestirme en invierno y todo estaba aun ocuro fuera. Me sentía igual de dormida y con la misma sensación de desasosiego. La transición del sueño a la realidad ha sido siempre casi traumática para mí, especialmente en invierno y eso lo sentía muy claramente en el sueño.

ANIMATION AND TEXT: Lucia I.G

TRIPTIC

2009-02-06T06:15:00.000-08:00

Picture: Lucia I.G

Bocetos/ Sketches

2009-01-27T10:33:00.000-08:00

Sketches: Lucia I.G

2009-01-15T10:06:00.001-08:00

"The subconscious wants to be heard: practical guide to interpret dreams"
Dream's images belong to a brain activity which is different from our daytime state of mind.
Our daytime state of mind and our oneiric mind live two different and parallel lives. Exchanges between them are extremely rare and apparently, they lack meaning.

"EL SUBCONSCIENTE QUIERE SER ESCUCHADO: GUÍA PRÁCTICA PARA INTERPRETAR LOS SUEÑOS"
Las imágenes de los sueños corresponden a una actividad cerebral diferente a la ordinaria, a un estado de conciencia del que la mente diurna no está necesariamente al corriente.
La mente diurna y la mente onírica viven,por tanto, dos vidas paralelas y separadas. Los intercambios entre ellas son extremadamente reducidos, y, en apariencia, desprovistos de significado.

Text: "Manual to interpret dreams" by Marisa Di Bartolo.

2009-01-15T09:15:00.000-08:00

CATASTROPHIC DREAM (TYPE C): LOSS OF A LIMB OR ILLNESS.
This is the kind of dream where our teeth fall down or it's us who pull them out of our gums easily. Sometimes we feel deadly sick or see how parts of our body fall into pieces.
Freud thought that the anguish of fragmentation, the loss of our limbs or teeth or the ones where we feel sick are dreams of castration, fear to failure or loss of power.

SUEÑO CATASTRÓFICO DE TIPO C: PERDIDA ANATÓMICA O ENFERMEDAD
Éste es el clásico sueño durante el cual caen los dientes; por regla general somos nosotros mismos quienes los extraemos de las encías con gran facilidad. Algunas veces, en sueños, tenemos la conciencia de que nos hallamos mortalmente enfermos, o de que una parte de nuestro cuerpo cae a pedazos; también es posible que soñemos que un cirujano nos corta a pedacitos o que estamos asistiendo a la vivisección de un animal o una persona.
Para Freud, la angustia de la fragmentación, la perdida de las extremidades, los dientes, etc..., los sueños de hallarse enfermo, la cojera, son todo sueños de castración o bien de temor a un fracaso, de pérdida de poder.

COLLAGE: Lucía
TEXT: "Practical guide to interpret dreams".By Marisa Di Bartolo.

2009-01-15T07:38:00.000-08:00

CATASTROPHIC DREAM (TYPE F):DEATH AND FUNERALS.
One of the most frequent procedures in dreams is to exchange opposites: for the unconscious opposites are equivalents and therefore, life and death are exchangeable.
Freud thought that dreaming that one is beheaded represented fear for their own sexual identity: love and death are ancient twins and our beloved's death (on an onieric dimension) could represent passion, jealousy and a desire to control a relationship.
Dreaming one's own death, on the contrary could mean that we blame ourselves for something that we have or we could have done.

SUEÑO CATASTRÓFICO DE TIPO F:MUERTES Y FUNERALES.
Entre los procedimientos del sueño, uno de los más frecuentes es el de intercambiar los opuestos: para el inconsciente los opuestos son equivalentes, y por tanto, la vida y la muerte son intercambiables.
Para Freud, soñar q se es decapitado representa temer por la propia identidad sexual: amor y muerte son ancestralmente gemelos y la muerte del amado en la dimensión onírica puede representar agresividad o pasión, celos o deseo de control total en la relación con la pareja.
El sueño de la propia muerte, en cambio, puede significar la voluntad de castigarse por culpas reales o presuntas.

COLLAGE: Lucía
TEXT: "Practical guide to interpret deams".By Marisa di Bartolo.

MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER

2008-12-30T03:56:00.000-08:00

The diagnosis criteria for Multiple Personality Disorder is as follows:

The presence of two or more distinct identity o personality states, each with its own pattern of perceiving, relating to and thinking about the environment and self.
At least two of this identities or personality states take control of the person´s behavior.
Inability to recall important personal information that is to extensive to be explain by ordinary forgetfulness.

The disturbance is not due to the direct psychological effects of a substance or general medical condition.

Diagnosis should be perform by a psychiatrist or psychologist who may use specially designed interviews and personality assessment tools to evaluate a person for the dissociative disorder.
Dissociative disorder is frequently misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder due to mood changes between alter states being mistaken for the cyclical mood changes accompanying bipolarity. Another frequent diagnosis is psychotic disorder as dialogues between alter may be mistaken for auditory hallucinations. Schizophrenia is often confused with Dissociative Identity Disorder as well.

PHOTOS: manipulated by me.
TEXT: "About dissociative disorder". Wikipedia.

To Swim Backwards or Forwards??

2008-12-29T07:48:00.000-08:00