Whirlwind
3rd October 2007
Back to some not-freestyle designs.
Just adding some other boring thoughts to the pile. 
“But men, if they be in their own power, and do bear and sustain themselves, and be not carried away with a whirlwind or tempest of ambition, ought in the pursuit of their own fortune to set before their eyes not only that general map of the world, “That all things are vanity and vexation of spirit,†but many other more particular cards and directions: chiefly that, that being without well-being is a curse, and the greater being the greater curse; and that all virtue is most rewarded and all wickedness most punished in itself…”
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, The Second Book, XXIII.46
3 October 2007 at 12:58
It is a great quote by Bacon. To have in mind constantly. The whirlwind of empty ambition is well represented in the artwork. “Being without well-being is a curse”…
Cheers.
3 October 2007 at 17:06
Glad you liked it, Cristian.
Bacon was a great and acute thinker; a quote to have in mind constantly for sure!
Then he proceeds:
“And secondly they ought to look up to the Eternal Providence and Divine Judgment, which often subverteth the wisdom of evil plots and imaginations, according to that scripture, “He hath conceived mischief, and shall bring forth a vain thing.â€Â And although men should refrain themselves from injury and evil arts, yet this incessant and Sabbathless pursuit of a man’s fortune leaveth not tribute which we owe to God of our time; who (we see) demandeth a tenth of our substance, and a seventh, which is more strict, of our time: and it is to small purpose to have an erected face towards heaven, and a perpetual grovelling spirit upon earth, eating dust as doth the serpent, Atque affigit humo divinæ particulam auræ. And if any man flatter himself that he will employ his fortune well, though he should obtain it ill, as was said concerning Augustus Cæsar, and after of Septimius Severus, “That either they should never have been born, or else they should never have died,†they did so much mischief in the pursuit and ascent of their greatness, and so much good when they were established; yet these compensations and satisfactions are good to be used, but never good to be purposed.”
But this needs a brand new design!