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God's Steps

noah-kh — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:23:50 GMT

God's Steps

Path to the sacred land...

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Photoshop.

grave.jpg

noah-kh — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:27:47 GMT

grave.jpg

Time in this place
was frozen,
the only fluid
the blood,
the carmine path
of forgotten.

Here the servant
of death
ferries
the candles of souls
of the dead
of the forever.

- Zhang Jingna & Kuang Hong

.end.of.godliness.

noah-kh — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:18:27 GMT

.end.of.godliness.

A piece of tumbling heaven, falling.
Unable to escape her fate, praying her last for redemption...

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Photoshop CS2, 7-8hours.

.the.dying.dream.

noah-kh — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:43:21 GMT

.the.dying.dream.

the heavens darkened,
she heard the summoners.

caged inside, lifeless
she loathed the prophecy.

no pain, no death.
immortality, forevermore.

it would end, she prayed.
a reverie simply,
it was all gone
all drenched in the saffron skies.

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photoshop cs2.

.ganjiang.n.moye.

noah-kh — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:54:09 GMT

.ganjiang.n.moye.

Concept work.

Inspired by the legend of ganjiang and moye. There're many variations to this story.

Painter, 20hours.

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Legends told of the couple Gan Jiang and Mo Ye to be the best blacksmiths on earth.

The Emperor of Chu ordered Gan Jiang to make him a sword. It wasn't a blessing, Gan Jiang knew that the king would execute the creator to prevent anyone else in the world to have anything better once obtained a precious item.

The most precious materials were sought from the hardest places, his own blood was put into the extracts for it was no ordinary things he worked with. With his wife's help Gan Jiang made a pair of the best swords he ever did in his lifetime. It took 3 years.

Before presenting the sword, Gan Jiang left the other of the pair to his then pregnant wife and told her, "I will not live once I go into the city. If it's a boy, have him avenge me when he grow up."

Gan Jiang was killed after offering the sword.

Not long after Gan Jiang's death, Mo Ye gave birth to a boy, Mo Gan. Not fogetting her husband's wish, she raised the child and told him his father's tragedy when he matured.

In tears he swore to avenge. The young man practiced with the sword everyday. When he set forth for his journey, the emperor had a repeating dream of an angry young man running towards him shouting for revenge. In fear he ordered for the soldiers to hunt down the man and guard the city gates.

With no choice Mo Gan hid in a small inn, one night he met a man who knew his story and offered to help. "Give me your sword and your head. I can avenge your father."

"Then take my head and my vengeance!"

With that Mo Gan cut his head off. The man picked up the sword and head and cried out, "What a son of a good man!"

And so he went to the palace and presented the head. The Emperor was overjoyed as it was the exact face he dreamt of and wanted to reward the man. Instead he was told to boil the head for 3 days 3 nights so that the ghost of Mo Gan will not hurt him.

The Emperor did as he was told, on the 3rd night he man told him to personally go to look into the couldron.

Being curious the emperor walked up to it. The man seized the opportunity and slashed the emperor's head off into the pot. Alarmed and shocked the guards flooded towards him, the man decapitated himself.

.melody.of.spring.

noah-kh — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:21:34 GMT

.melody.of.spring.

far below they live,
unknown and forgotten.

they remember the forlorn,
and weave the lost lores into tunes.

subtle and soft,
gently, can you feel
the sparkling melodies of celebrations seeping in?

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It was supposed to be a series of commissions. After I started to paint this image the client decided they didn't have enough to pay before I even got to show them, so I didn't get paid in the end...

.the.atonement.

noah-kh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:20:03 GMT

.the.atonement.

there were torments, madness.
there were tears, depression.
some days, less gloomy,
brighter, a little kindness.

frozen, moving
trapped for redemption

an angel, a demon
a merman.

.showering.petals.

noah-kh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:15:55 GMT

.showering.petals.

a light
depressing
lost

almost forgotten

feeling.

willing it to fall away with the winds...

cover for ImagineFX issue6

.sky.castle.

noah-kh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:13:28 GMT

.sky.castle.

longing for the reminiscents of my elysian field...

.sinner.

noah-kh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:09:44 GMT

.sinner.

pain, a word lost to him
kill, the meaning to live

gods,

he slay.

.queen.of.the.eternity.

noah-kh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:08:00 GMT

.queen.of.the.eternity.

hidden,
forgotten.

the majors gone
the minors made
two extraneous

she made it stay.
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subject in written: tarot and poker cards. major deck gone minor cards stay (our familiar poker deck) and 2 jokers come around. subject in picture: the one who made mark and make the rules and changes.
poker cards can be used for fortune telling. and that's my little passing of tarots to poker.

.winterfall.

noah-kh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:04:50 GMT

.winterfall.

.winter.fall.
.burning.cold.

.bride.of.lucifer.

noah-kh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:03:17 GMT

.bride.of.lucifer.

a daughter of the nights and chaos,
into the abyss of ebony
she was robbed.

awaking, she saw charon stood
asking in no words, she held in her silence
they crossed the acheron,
where beyond, lucifer awaited.

playing her final symphony
to hell, the seraphim were called.

.butterfly.

noah-kh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:52:56 GMT

.butterfly.

in a world where the wires take over.
the natural, is often lost and forgotten.