In October of 2017, I created this image. The inspiration behind the visual concept was the five hundredth aniversary of the day when Martin Luther nailed his theological protests to the church door in Germany. My personal name for the design is “Reformanda,” and to me it represents the constant struggle to reclaim what was good and true of past traditions by applying them graciously in the context of the real present.

I first developed the concept by sketching on paper. When I had settled on the design, I inked over my best pencil sketch with a pen. Then I took a photo of the drawing with my phone, sent the photo to my computer, and finally opened it in Inkscape, the open source vector editing software program. I then traced the bitmap image into a vector graphic before spending quite a lot of time tidying up the final design.

Today I am dedicating this image into the public domain. It may be used by any one for any purpose, with or without attribution.

Anyone who wishes to provide attribution for this image should identify its source as “strivenword” or link to it on Flickr.

Image from Adobe Stock I see the shadows move around the bend.Without an origin, they lack a destined fate.I follow the street where pools of light meetWith depths of virginal darkness, late at night.Inky blackness makes the formsShaped from gradients of Void-substance.Nothing self-negates by making Being.Creatures coalesce and scramble in periphery.They swarm in the shadows and cover me.Further along the dark-way.Repeating patterns of motion lead me silently.Unacknowledged, untouched, but surrounded by companions -- I am.

I was successfully scammed this month. Although I tend to be good at losing my invested effort, this was easily the hardest money I ever lost. What I retain is the change in my methodology that I effected in the effort to implement these two fictitious freelance projects, one of which successfully made off with my funds. It started with my return to two freelancing job websites, Guru and Upwork.