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October 3rd 2017

Beautiful Words- Beautiful Pictures

Beautiful Pictures- Beautiful Words

This project was inspired by a text exchange.

I sent my brother a beautiful photo and he responded with the beautiful words that came to mind when he saw the photo.

The following slides and the beautiful paintings in the CADLC are the results of that seed.

Thank you to all the students who responded so imaginatively and thoughtfully to the following two prompts creating such

Beautiful Pictures –Beautiful Words!

Thanks to Mark Landers (4th Year) who helped me to coordinate the project .

C. Kelleher.

"Twas the wild flowers I preferred

Who owed nothing to nobody

But blossomed in the ditches

And made their own way in the world."

John Spillane

Looks like there is light out there,can you see it?

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain and usher storms, but to add colour to my sunset sky”

Fionan Shocks

You'll Never Walk Alone

Gavin O’Carroll

"If there are no dogs in heaven, when I die I want to go where

they went" ~ Will Rogers

Barry O’Sullivan

"Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them."

-Paulo Coehlo

Eunan Linders

“When I die Dublin will be written in my heart’’ ~James Joyce

Eoin Fuller

Lighthouse KeepingSeas pleatWinds keenFogs deepenShips lean noDoubt, andThe lighthouseKeeper keepsA light forThose left out.It is intimateAnd remote bothFor the keeperAnd those afloat.

Ewan McKeon

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.“

~Ferris Beuller

Curtis Winkelman

A wise man once said to always watch the sunset at least once a day

~ Wise Man Jim

Jim Barnes

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away

from you like the leaves of autumn.” ― John Muir

Leo Downes

Tom Dwan

“New York, New York, I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps”

~ Frank Sinatra

Daniel Mouatt

The scenic sun but summer’s done

David Hale

“Yesterday is history,tomorrow is a mystery,

and today is a gift…That’s why we call it the present.”

~ Oogway

Ben Harvey

“Whether the mist in reefs of fire extend its reaches sheer,

Or a hundred sunbeams splinter in an azure atmosphere

On cloudy archipelagos.” ~ Francis Thompson

Jack Waters

“Just beyond the sunrise,Someone waits for me…”

- David Harris

Keir Mackay

Looks like there is light out there, can you see it?

"Suddenly the sun comes upAnd the dark is gone

We made it to the dawn and I don't miss you anymore“ ~ Rudimental

Mark Kelly

“When the bombs go off I won't take cover Keep one foot in front of the other

Home is where I lay my head so under the stars I’ll make my bed” ~ Lucy Spraggan

Matthew Mion

No Better place to be

Max Patterson

“Below the clouds is the darkness,but rise above there is light.”

Michael O’Sullivan

All good things come to an end

Paddy McGowan

"The tiny seed knew that in order to grow, it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered with darkness, and struggle to reach the light."

- Sandra Kring

Patrick Scully

“Goodbye summer hello autumn”

Sam McConnell

Returning to the source is stillness,Which is the way of nature.

The way of nature is unchanging knowing constancyIs insight.-Lao Tzu

Stephen Corr

“It’s not about the journey, it’s about the destination.”

Stephen O Nullain

Ben Heapes

“I don’t know what the greater tragedy is; the fact that this photo isn't real or the fact

that once upon a time it was…..”

“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence”

~ Jim Watkins

Brian Miles

“The heart of man is very much like the sea,it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths it

has its pearls too.”~Vincent Van Gogh

Conor Lacey

“Good fences make good neighbors”~Robert Frost

Gary Galvin

“He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put outevery one;Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.For nothing now can ever come to any good.”

~ W H Auden

James Arbuthnott

"Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you do, who you can be, have or do“

-Brian Tracy

James Dolan

"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere"- Vincent Van Gogh

James Kos

“Crystal diamondsbeautifully displayed

Dancing darlingsdissolves with touch

Delicate detailsGracefully descend

Divine diamondsDazzilingly fall”

~ Stormy Quinn Concoby

Joey Nelson

“EveryoneEveryone around here

Everyone is so nearIt’s holding on”

- The National Anthem, Radiohead

Mark Crowley

“It is neither wealth nor splendour; but tranquillity and occupation which give you happiness”

~ Thomas Jefferson

Niall Brady

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Patrick Hassett

''When I needed a hand, I found your paw''

Patrick Shannon

“The summit is not life’s end.Getting to the top is only half the journey,

Staying there is the other half.”

Stephen Ennis

“Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can’t eat or play with it, just pee on it and walk away”

Thomas Clarkson

“Ensanguining the skiesHow heavily it diesInto the west away;Past touch and sight and soundNot further to be found,How hopeless under groundFalls the remorseful day”~A.E Housman

Tom Fenton

Innocent

Young

Small

Harmless

Happy

Bond

Future Friendship

Childhood

Brotherhood

Family

Joseph Neary

Tom Dwan

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” Confucius

Daniel Cullen

“A ship is always safer at shore but that’s not what it’s built for.”

Albert Einstein

David Machale

Michael English

James Boland

“As the sly foxed peered into the darkness of the horizon,Its predator slowly rised up and shone upon him,And shook him from head to toe,For the dusk of dawn had won that day.”

Mark Mannion

“There are far better things aheadThan the ones we leave behind”

C.S Lewis

Fergal O’ Sullivan Isabella Francis

“They are so similar; the sky and the sea,Each day the sun rises on both of them with glee.

As the sun rises high in the sky,It immerses itself into the depths of the sea.The clouds for one are waves for another,They reflect faithfully: each others bother.

Every evening as the sun slips away to rest,Both are tinged with red in the west.”

Sean Patterson