--- Story --- by Titia

Fractal • Fantasy • posted on Jul 09, 2007

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Between Dinther and Hoofddorp. Translation Chris van Beugen. Half past eight. Leaving from our home village Dinther for Hoofddorp by car. Chris is driving. Sitting upright is quite hard for me, so I tilt my seat a little backwards. It changes my view of and on the world. I vaguely see shapes floating along. Shapes in many colors but at the lower side of my visual field they all turn grey. There's a lot of green in all shades just above. Tops of shrubs and trees. And above... a beautiful living display of clouds and sky. In a flowing movement from right to left all kinds of forms float through the middle of my vision. The sun, slanting behind me at the right, is still busy firing up. Her soft gentle warmth touches my body through the car windows. A line of birds,... free... or bound? Free or bound... Faster than the clouds they leave my vision. In slow motion I see a vast stampede of the most peculiar animals. Because of their horizontally stretched shapes they seem to be charging on with an enormously decelerating speed. During their flight... well... from what, really?..., they seem to take on eachothers' shapes. A giant sow with chubbby cheeks and ears standing upright makes her way through the crowd, just before a shortsnouted baby elephant whose behind slowly changes into a fat dinosaur. A hippopotamus whose body keeps on swelling and expanding. His mouth opens up to let out a soundless roar. A woolly lamb without feet but with giant wings instead. A tiny little chicken with a bulging stomach seems able to hold her ground in all this violence. Undisturbed she hurries alongside a fatstomached goose with a dragging tail and a crocodile carrying a basket of oranges on his back... The sun is getting warmer and feels very pleasant. The stampede slowly disappears...seems to evaporate. A huge landscape with beautiful mountains follows along. Slowly the ground in this floating landscape opens up offering a view at a gorgeously clear crystal lake in deep blue colors... I look sideways. I've got wings. White and soft and radiant. Now beneath me the ribbbon of manycolored shapes all moving in a lane towards their destiny in time. Lots of green at both sides of this lane. I look up, to the sparkling lake. High, higher... Clouds, magnificently white and silvery, close beneath me. I become a part of the landscape. Sapphire. Sodalite. Calcite. Lapis Lazuli. Turquoise. Agate. Crystal. An enchanting world. High, higher... Fog is surrounding me. Beautiful pastel pearls add a magical appearance to my wings. Strange.... After rising through the clouds I find they have taken their place above me... Lower, low... My wings carry me toward the mirroring deep blue crystal lake. Here and there silvery white islands seem to be floating. I almost drown in the beauty of this lake. In one flowing glide I land on the silver beach of one of these islands. This island is cloaked in a mysteriously blue-and-pink illuminated white pearly fog. My wings have disappeared. I look around in quiet amazement. Barefeet I walk to the nearest hill and enjoy the ever changing panorama that's unfolding itself. Close by a floating castle, wrapped in a mysterious light is starting to find its own fate. For a tiny moment I close my eyes... Ten o'clock. We've arrived at our destiny.

Comments (26)

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CarolTate

3:08PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

oooooooooooooh this is absolutely breathtaking, I just love the colors! Your imagination is awesome!
thanks so much for sharing this with us, Blessings

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Juliette.Gribnau

3:23PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

de afbeelding is werkelijk schitterend... de story voor mij te moeilijk engels, sorry..kan daar geen commentaar op geven

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CarolSassy

3:24PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

Beautiful story and oh what a gorgeous picture to go with it! Excellent work! (:

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globalpuffer

3:28PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

I love it. Especially your line 'add a magical appearance to my wings' As if the wings weren't magical enough!! :) Beautiful pic and story!!!

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mansco

3:38PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

Splendid story for this beauty ;O)

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LightArtFractals

3:53PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

Enchanting Image.

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Jennyfnf

4:06PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

All true for you dear Titia. I am stuck for words.

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Dindin

4:17PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

I wish you could film your dream Titia ,but I saw it through the eyes of my imagination and it reminded me of my chilhood when with friends we would lie on our backs in the field and tell each other of the fantastic images we saw in the clouds .Your dreamy image suits your lovely story .

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RodolfoCiminelli

4:34PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

Fantastic and beautiful realization.....!!!!

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Electralena

4:35PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

This is absolutely spectacular, Titia! Beautiful Story too!!!

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DennisReed

4:45PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

A most magical journey, and stunning illustration! Bravo Titia, and thanks for sharing the ride! Hugs!

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rocserum

6:00PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

wonderful how you've illustrated your fantastic dream, a beautyful poetic experiance! I am impressed! RS

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kansas

6:21PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

A brilliant image and story. It carried me away to fantasyland.

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bpclarke

6:29PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

What a fantastic journey and fantasy of the world and the mind. Superb story and image. Bunny

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Henny31

9:19PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

I am in awe..you are such a "rich" person to have what you have.. not only make the most beautiful images but the way you can express so very well what you feel and what you see.. you are a TRUE artist.. every fiber of your body .. and a heart soo big to go with it...

SuZeeMay

10:27PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

Just superb titia

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barbdennist

10:35PM | Mon, 09 July 2007

Your story and the illustration to go with it has touched me deeply. May your angel wings carry you to new and beautiful places, and I hope we are invited along on the journey. You are so talented and gifted and I'm sure God is using you in ways even you aren't aware of. May His peace continue to be with you.

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