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Knower and Known
Knower and Known, paper collage, 2022 My latest experiment in collage art, “Knower and Known.” On the whole, I’m satisfied with this collage, but I am fretting slightly over the quality of the image here. I normally post JPEGs from a high resolution scanner at the shop where I get my prints made, but they’re […]
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On Capturing Moments
Northern Cardinal (male) Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. Ray Bradbury I generally prefer the term, “birdwatching” to “birding” when it comes to describing my bird-observing activities (and […]
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Other People Make Plans
Plans, paper collage, 2022 other people make plans other people linger on sidewalks counting nickels, stomping dead fish other people are telescopes make countries out of windshield wipers make self-portraits of empty clouds worship astronauts from 100 years ago the moon is flat, they say and so is my grandfather’s grave a landscape retained deep […]
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Self-Portrait in Spring
Self-Portrait in Spring, paper collage, 2022 As I was preparing to post this collage and another one (which I’ve decided to publish at a later date, alongside a poem, methinks), I remembered that I made another Self-Portrait in Spring at this time last year. And how different it looks. I daresay, how far I’ve come […]
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Impromptu Butterfly
today, i force myself to do nothing a legless meditation an impromptu butterfly an unintended woman tiptoeing around a garden daffodil in body and in soul i am struck by the commas in her hair a satellite in empty shoes reminding us what we’re capable of
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Eye, Heart, and Mind
Simplicity, paper collage, 2022 Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell. Rollo May When I first started The Used Life in April 2017, I wanted to create a space in which to not only […]
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Expressionless & Other Art
Expressionless, paper collage, 2022 I haven’t done a bulk art post in quite awhile; so, I thought it was time to share some of what I’ve been working on. Please enjoy. I am also delighted to share that both “The Beauty of Everyday Things” and “House of Cards (Id, Ego, Superego)” have been selected for […]
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Feeding June
(revised from an earlier version) there are no answers; only instruments a butterfly, a tango, an empty glass a river, scandalous and electric summoning the voice of god under a wild oak tree every pleasure has a reason every body tears itself apart: to be sacred, and then die again as the best of rebels […]
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Handlebars
i. an armchair doesn’t attach to life a cactus doesn’t make promises doesn’t shed tears over lemonade or wet suitcases this secret we’d rather forget what is eaten what is remembered ii. adrift on wood imagining we’re freer now than we used to be that this is inevitable the houses we used to live in […]
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Zen Backyard
Carolina Wren It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…they are made with the eye, heart, and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson I have begun to think, even though I am fairly new to photography, that photographs might be the most effective medium for me to communicate how I see the world. Indeed, I […]
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