''Entangled In The Tropics''

When living as an ex-pat in a foreign country one sometimes feels likethey are entangled in a culture that is beyond understanding. Thisimage represents that cultural dichotomy that I experience as anAmerican living in the Philippines.

Two cultures that can work together, but are sometimes worlds apart.The traditions, practices and languages all contain elements that aresteeped in emotional content that is unknown and unknowable to thosewho did not grow-up with the culture. You can live happily together,yet never truly know the other person, or their culture.

Your thoughts on this subject, as well as on this image, are welcome.

Amazing use of colors here.. Very beautiful... It feels like the bright and wonderful colors are trapped inside the darkness that gets closer and closer and they can´t push the darkness away... Very beautiful work...

 

Best Regards, Jill

It is very nice to know that there are some people out there that like to think, to see beyond the obvious, to imagine. That is one of the main objectives of abstract art... to elicit thoughts, unique to the viewer, that stimulate the imagination.

Thank You Jill for you interesting insights.

Beautiful work! A new idea is born inside a neuronal network.

Great image Dave, and I can totally understand where you are coming from.....these little intricacies that you must have found in your 'wife', are what attracted you to her, besides her beauty...but you must have had, and continue to have a lot of 'issues' to 'bend your thinking around). So many cultures have a strong sense of 'history' , ritual, deep emotional ties to ceremony.....it's well displayed in your image...

 

On the other hand..........you can still live with someone from your own country and never 'truly' know them.....all depends on their family history.....tradition, or just what they have had to deal with in thier past, that affects their day to day life at the present. You seem to be managing quite well, and I hope you continue to do so......Love drew you to make a very big decision....and leave your country behind...but when it comes right down to it....I think it is 'the one you are with, who will truly care about you till the 'end'...if it is really love. Other than that I think may of us are 'truly alone' in a sense.....wonderful image!!!