"I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas..."

"I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas...."

Photos by Sandra Saldanha

The Dry Salvages by T.S.Elliot

"... And under the oppression of the silent fog

The tolling bell

Measures time not our time, rung by the unhurried

Ground swell, a time

Older than the time chronometers , older

Than time counted by anxious worried women

Lying awake, calculating the future,

Trying to unweave, unwind, unravel

And piece together the past and the future,

Between midnight and dawn, when the past is all deception,

The future futureless, before the morning watch

When time stops and time is never ending;

And the ground swell, that is and was from the beginning,

Clangs

The bell... "

Extract from The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S.Elliot,

Four Quartets, The Dry Salvages

Photo and Installation by Sandra Saldanha

Michael Robartes by W.B.Yeats

"She.                   I have heard said

There is great danger in the body.

He. Did God in portioning wine and bread

Give man His thought or his mere body?

She. My wretched dragon is perplexed..."

Extract from W.B.Yeats Collected Poems,

Michael Robartes and The Dancers

Photo and Installation by Sandra Saldanha

Solomon and The Witch by W.B. Yeats

"And thus declared that Arab lady;

'Last night, where under the wild moon

On grassy mattress I had laid me,

Within my arms great Solomon,

I suddenly cried out in a strange tongue

Not his, not mine.'

Who understood

Whatever has been said, sighed, sung,

Howled, miau-d, barked, brayed, belled, yelled, cried, crowed,..."

Extract from W.B. Yeats Collected Works,

Solomon and The Witch

Photo ( Installation's detail) by Sandra Saldanha

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Dear friends,

Thank you all for your support!

I hope to see you again in the next year!

Dance , Music, Art and Poetry 

has inspired me to write and create mixed media works,

, but above all they helped me to look closer within my landscape and appreciate the gifts of life

that are around me.

Now half way through my own journey,

 I start to understand what really matters during my passage in this world .

I am specially thankful for the love of my family and friends.

I would like to wish you all Happy Holidays

and a Very Creative, Prosperous, Loving New Year!

Photo and Text by Sandra Saldanha

Joseph Campbell's on Heros

"The hero . . . discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed. One by one the resistances are broken. He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life, and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. Then he finds he and his opposite are not of differing species, but one flesh."

Text by Joseph Campbell

The Pram ( details ) by Sandra Saldanha

" Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with immense velocity."

John Hunter's account of the dissection of a Whale. ( A small sized one.)

From Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville, Extracts xxxi

Photo and Intallation The Pram ( detail ) by Sandra Saldanha