18+ xenophora , to random
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Today is the day I'm supposed to meet with the neighbor and let her have her pick of some old framed pieces.

Please think good thoughts for me. It's hard to stare at that tower of boxes smugly gathering dust every day for ten years. lol Well, there are boxes under the bed, too but you get my point... ☕

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...And we got two bags of fresh greens and some green onions out of the deal! :yum:

When I brought down the boxes, I found this unframed piece that I never scanned or posted. I don't know why. It's not bad. I never did decide which way it should be displayed. I would turn pieces around frequently when I worked on them back then. (Guessing it's 1999 or thereabouts. I hadn't signed this one, either.)

Same image, flipped so the hunk who was upside-down is now rightside-up, and vice versa.

Long rectangular paper collage. Two shirtless young guys have wine-based headgear. They're surrounded by vines, gold frames, women's red lips, fish, buildings, beads, grapes, cheese, abstract swirls, dots, wine glasses, and wine bottles. Items are of widely varying sizes and arranged asymmetrically. There are also ragged blocks and bits of texts from wine magazines and old children's books. Ages of papers used ranges from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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    “To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.” ~Carl Jung

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    “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.” ~Unknown

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    Love Bugs!! The GOOD kind. :)

    Another piece from my personal journal that started as an ink drawing. I am really enjoying these!

    ART
    https://fineartamerica.com/featured/love-bugs-colorful-hand-drawn-heart-art-sharon-cummings.html

    #art #bug #bugs #insect #insects #bee #bees #honeybees #honeybee #butterfly #butterflies #dragonfly #dragonflies #spring #love #summer #springtime #romance #romanticart #romantic #heart #hearts #fun #cute #drawing #collage #collagerat #handmade #handmadeart #fedigiftart #handmadewithlove #handmadegifts #humanart #humanartist

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    Country living serves me well
    The big city offers many thrills
    But nothing like a warm breeze
    Whispering through the pines
    Cows serenading each other
    Across lush green pastures
    An expansive bright blue sky
    Caressing a graceful swallow tail
    The fragrance of the wisteria
    A joy like no other

    #kigohaikuprompt warm breeze
    #575Prompt thrills
    #DailyHaikuPrompt wisteria
    #MastoPrompt serve

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    https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-stream-colorful-nature-landscape-art-sharon-cummings.html

    #country #nature #landscape #art #poetry #poet #collage #collageart #artwork #haiku

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    🚿Artist: - City: 5 Pl. Marché aux Poissons, Auvergne, France 🇫🇷 2024 - Title: untitled - ! ☕

    Streetartwall. A whimsical paste-up of a man with diving goggles has been painted on the small exterior wall of a store. The picture shows an older gentleman in black swimming trunks, with diving goggles and a snorkel, looking out of a (painted) window. A tiny red fish swims across the room on the left. Next to him on a small wooden table is a goldfish bowl. Info: The pasteup was made for a solo exhibition of the artist on site Galerie Catherine Pennec) in April 2024.
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    • myxomycetes , to random
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    Another collage sketch for a thing...

    "A birdwatcher in the Airdives waits for a flock of rafterwights to rise phoenix-like from the dust of a dead civilization."

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    I hereby declare today as

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    "Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world." - Susan Sontag

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    "There are times when ten pages of some book fall under your eye just at the moment when your very life...depends on your reading those ten pages", Thomas Merton says. When a sequence of sentences get printed that say every thought, every feeling, that you've been trying desperately to…

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    xenophora , to random
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    [pink drumroll] ;)

    #art2024 #clock #collage #eye #garden #Photoshop #pink #time #woman

    Horizontal rectangle in soft yellow with faint mid-size checkerboard marks. A 1950s woman in bright pink is at right foreground, cropped to be seen from her chin to her lower abdomen. She faces left and holds out a large square translucent clock with 1960s curvy red numbers and matching hands. It shows a time of 8:30. It rests at a slight angle on a pointy-based, round-topped platform over a large gold eyelet embedded in an angled block of 1950s cream-colored flooring with flecks of pink, green, beige, and brown. The woman holds a small white iris in her left hand. There’s a faded, blurred strip of white rail fence and a garden with white flowers in the background. Trim: six tiny green jewel-like glass circles atop the clock and as buttons on the woman’s belted dress.
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    • 18+ xenophora OP ,
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    Vertical deep red rectangle. Background is grainy, randomly arranged thick curving overlapping lines in translucent white, black, and gray. Photos of a whole cake being frosted and a slice of cake alone on a plate share two opposite corners. Two angled copies of a 1930s or 40s photo of two young women in ice skates kicking up their legs, showgirl-style in the center. Five simple line drawings of forks faced left or right cross the upper and lower edges of the canvas. Trim: two snippets of 1930s instructions for frosting a cake. Text: “That chilly red trick.”
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    • 18+ xenophora OP ,
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    (First return to this series since October 2020!! 😮 )

    Horizontal bright blue rectangle with tiny light blue pattern of 1950s partygoers as background. Center has a row of six whole duplicate pineapples in off-white and reddish brown touched with green for their leafy tops. Three brown-handled sharp knives are scattered over this image. Above and below the fruit are two pale green thin strips with the word “adventure” cut into them six times for a stencil (or negative) effect. At lower left, partially hidden by the fruit: a curved 1950s light brown wooden TV cabinet on a pale green carpet. Trim: two fibrous bright yellow rectangles and three little chunks of pineapple. Text: “Positive or not it’s back.”
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    • 18+ xenophora OP ,
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    🎶 "Saturday night's all right for pasting..." 🎶

    Tall skinny streaky pale grayish green rectangle. A shape made of mostly rectangles plus a trapezoid and two triangles in pink and yellow with green or pink outlines, plus patterns within some shapes of hearts or daisies, makes a larger shape like a birdhouse or an old-fashioned street lamp. Within the shape is a toothy pink and gray abstract series of concentric ellipses with a totem-ish or cyclopean figure made of white plastic pieces of 1970s wedding cake stands and a six-pointed starred glass paperweight viewed from above. Trim: two circular blobs of pink mousse and six pink frosting flowers with yellow or green middles. Text on the lower half is a c1930 Valentine poem which I’ll post in a subsequent link.
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    • 18+ xenophora OP ,
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    Horizontal rectangular still life bordered with a thin, raised rim of orange and pink, against a frame that’s cut at an angle to be roughly half weathered wood and half velvety forest green. The green side has a little faint and blurred ad text. The illustration at center is a coarsely “painted” group with an eggplant, a head of green cabbage, half a watermelon, an acorn squash, a cooked turkey and ham, and three ripe tomatoes. Portions of the still life are “peeled back” using erasers in various brush settings so that an under-layer of torn ad text in different sizes and fonts shows through. (About a dozen.) A few bits of stamped texture and some smaller, black and white snippets of the still life also show through.
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    • 18+ xenophora OP ,
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    Tall rectangle with smudgy pastel-colored wavy thick lines and brushy textures in white, gray, green, blue, and peach to form a figure seen from the thighs up. They have broad, sharp shoulders and a thick waist with wide hips. They wear a peaked green elfin cap over a few curls of auburn hair, green shirt, and dark gray vest. Their skirt or trousers are blue. They look down and right as their left hand pours something peach-pink from a wide necked jar towards the unseen ground. Their right hand points down and left. There’s a piece of a distant antique store interior photo on either side of them with faint imagery of colored glass ware crowded onto shelves. Six small or medium floating glass mushrooms in muted colors float in the air around the figure.Trim: two other hands reaching towards the figure, and two large, balloonish kids' heads floating at left and looking away from the figure.
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    Collage - "Friday 6: Friday Is Blue"

    Square composition with small, wavy diagonal lines curved softly for seawater feel. A 1960s photo of a Siamese cat resting on a bed with head upright and eyes open, facing left, is trimmed to a curved shape like an urn, or a diamond but with curved lines. Two thin circular outlines plus six Art Deco-ish cut bits and two 1940s buttons form a stylized frame in light blue, peach pink, and off-white around the cat. At two opposite corners are 1950s cartoon line drawings of fish schools swimming. They face inward to observe the cat. Gradient Overlay filter makes the cat mostly chocolate brown, but the color changes to soft blue around it and across the rest of the picture: the change being diagonal in the opposite direction of the tiny background lines.
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    Collage - "Venus 2"

    (What if an ad, but it was from another planet? ;) )

    Tall rectangular composition with blurred green background of pineapple leaves in closeup. Three vari-shaped sections of yellow spattered with diagonal white lines over that create the effect of a box opening. A 1950s lipstick and compact in gold are at left, floating over a reclining red-haired 1950s woman in closeup profile. A line of red rickrack emerges vertically from her closed mouth and another crosses it horizontally. Three sets of simple red open lip-shaped outlines stick to the vertical rickrack and have the words “They would have” inside them. Three wiggly red hearts of graduated size with white outlines sit atop the horizontal rickrack line. Trim: large and small red asemic text, and the faint images of a flower on the compact and on the leaves.
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    Tall, light-colored rectangular wooden shadow box is set against a toothy purple mat. The box is divided into five asymmetric sections and has an alternating background of purple 1940s textile with dark streaks, and segments of a huge pink rose which are heavily blurred. Images inside box are a 1960s white card table, several small plastic 1970s plastic tables in green and purple against a gauzy gray curtain with colored balloons floating above them, a pink cream pie, a pink teacup with a silver spoon above it, and a heavily blurred 1950s man with reddish-brown hair who looks to the right. A large set of purple women’s lips smile at him, and two blue pearls float at his left. Trim: another set of lips, three more pearls, and a man’s hand below the balloons pointing left. Text: “Same useful company for men and for women.”
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    Collage - "Big Sister"

    Tall rectangular composition with green leaves and ferns blurred, streaked, and mottled for a watercolor or finger-paint effect. Pink paint and frosting highlights form a floor and some pink background blotches suggest falling petals. A large, lollipop-shaped tree slightly off-center is made of a wiggly wood plank trunk and a wiggly-line circle with pink leaf line drawings in the middle. Two small cutouts of 1940s women in flowered dresses view the tree from the lower left. A woman in a flowered dress stands at right and further back, also looking at the tree.
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    Horizontal rectangular canvas in toothy wide horizontal bands of orange and yellow, with a bit of green ad copy at the center. A large head made from two halves of different 1970s TV dinners are stuck together and overlaid with a triangular and arced set of lines like an hourglass. Some pieces of the dinners are cut and inlaid into this. Three copies each of tiny brown jar lids, red coils from a stove, and an old round glass paperweight with a white base and a coiled green snake inside. They are arranged over the dinner to suggest one or more big-eyed cartoon faces.
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    Collage - "Thoughts Of You 3"

    Tall rectangle with rough, bright green background that has concentric circles to add texture and spotlight effect with the faint shape of a large, six-petaled flower impression. Some of this green stuff is "torn" for a decollage feel: revealing scraps of various bright-colored 1940s floral fabric at corners and edges of background. At two opposite corners, 1960s dolls in bright colored dresses look toward the other corners. Each is balanced on a large 1960s nickel which is tails-up. At center: a larger heads-up copy of the same nickel. Text: Plant something different. Can't you afford to?"
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    18+ xenophora OP ,
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    #art #BreadTie #collage #couple #flower #heart #man #Photoshop #pink #sandwich #woman #1950s

    Tall rectangle. Top two thirds with a coarse, burlap-type pattern in smudged red with yellow and thick white threads. Bottom third is a young 1950s heterosexual couple in profile from the neck up. They hold and bite into the opposite ends a a huge submarine sandwich while they look at one another. Over this floats a yellow and red outline of an eight-petaled flower. Some of the petals have the same smudged beige, yellow and pink marbled background as the couple does. The flower's center has a wiggly snippet of ad text with red sans serif against a yellow background. Trim: a couple of round cold cut ends, a pair of sharp knives, and three large plastic bread ties. The centermost tie has a heart-shaped hole with a bit of red jelly behind it.
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    • xenophora OP ,
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    “Three Wishes" (A study in chronic procrastination. :P )

    Tall rectangle with rough stone background in soft gray. Overlaid with two segments of tiled neon-blue rectangular pattern for “water.” Two different sized panels of oak interlace with the blue pattern. One has a doorway cut out at upper right to show a 1950s couple looking left towards a young merman in the lower left foreground. His upper body is “Study of a Seated Youth” by 17th Century artist Pietro Da Cortona. Trim: An inverted blue vase with a fluted edge and gold rim, two different size white marble panels, each with a disc cut out and moved, three fish, and three small, bright-colored glass spheres.
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    New art thread for 2024 starts here! This is a mostly daily thread with a different artist featured in each post, primarily modern and contemporary stuff since that's my thing.

    Last year's thread is here:
    https://mastodon.online/@alexxkittle/109615139735403668

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    Collage works from the "Earthly Treasures" series by Egyptian artist Mohamed Abla, 2020s, exploring the spiritual and healing aspects of plants, especially cacti.

    Collage of a large central black cactus with pink blossoms and green leaves, and a blue and yellow background
    Collage of green and blue cacti plants with pink blossoms intertwining their leaves together, with black and red plants in the background
    Collage of black cacti with pink blossoms flanked by red, blue, and deep green plants

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