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Handmade art photography using traditional stone tools. NOT AI. All images-words original unless otherwise noted.
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Converging Views of the River (2026)

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#newbrunswick
Converging Views of the River (2026) The Saint John River seen from the shore in Summer and Autumn merged together from memory under a cloudy sky.
February 7, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Memory Rocks (2026)
Memory Rocks (2026) An image of etherial but imposing rocks gathered from memory on a beach where memories remember. Ars Poetica Story takes her skin. Story takes her bones. She finds her toes and her fingertips. When she speaks, like salmon running, the dead and the living converge. The river of memory rocks the hunger of claws and tongues. Electricity swallows itself back through its double-prod picana, bullets dislodge themselves from their chore of destroying the same day over and over again, and from the caverns of fear and revision, skin resurrects the skin. Each sentence closes in like the crawl of split skin sealing its red, wet avulsion. The enormity of the pending night scares the seven assassins on trial. They understand that in hell, they will eat their own throats. - Ruth Irupé Sanabria
February 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Heinrich's Big Day Out (2025)

Photo collage after Heinrich Klumbies
"Between the Houses of Levici"
February 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Textured Landscape #1 (2026)
Textured Landscape #1 (2026) First in a series of landscapes using bright texture patterns to define parts of the scene adding a form of depth to a flat abstract image.
February 1, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Semi-Precious (2026)
Semi-Precious (2026) An surreal image of Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland where the cascading water is filled with semi-precious stones which pool underneath it.
January 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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Unity of Wood (2026)
Unity of Wood (2026) A view out of a window at the Unity Temple superimposed with a the wave patterns on a piece of wood. The view shows at its center, a lovely snow-covered tree. The Unity Temple in Oak Park IL was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Unitarian faith in his Prairie style and incorporates many details showcasing wood as a design object.
January 28, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Between Fear and The Other (2026)
Between Fear and The Other (2026) Symbolic and surreal abstract of fear facing The Other with emotions heightened and fear dominating. Kind of like life in the USA for those poor souls who came here for the promise of freedom and a better life. Fear of Flying Why did the chicken cross the road? When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, to get to the other side. But when she is feeling better, she ambles lighter and for lesser causes. Sometimes just to shift her feathers. You can't really die from riding high, from passing well from one encounter to the next, from sign to sign. Roll, red-faced, like planets roll, fat in the dream of time. You can't die from riding high, though you may feel it. Why did the chicken put feet to the street? To survive it. The road is long, but it is not wide. You can live through it. Even unwebbed toes tread the moat, we note, and laugh on the other side. - Jennifer Michael Hecht
January 26, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Outside In (2026)
Outside In (2026) Its a dark clear and frigid night with snow on the trees. The trees have sought refuge inside the house where its still daytime.
January 24, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Bad Bunny (2026)
Bad Bunny (2026) A surreal abstract of many textures and colors depicting a Bad Bunny on the move...
January 22, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Virgin Birth (2026)
Virgin Birth (2026) Surreal image of a flower-like pattern on beach sand with a large stone emerging from the bottom portion as though giving birth.
January 20, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Areas of Influence (2026)
Areas of Influence (2026) An image of fields of separated color thrown together with one area dominant. A layer of fluidity in the dominant area shows the watchful eye spreading its view to capture all other areas around it. From “The Invention of Influence” Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of   his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation might not be the work instead of   hidden channels of memory leading back to the notions of others absorbed, coming now anew into form he’d almost known within him was growing. He called it (the ghost of a) cryptomnesia. So we own and owe what we know. - Peter Cole
January 18, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Gathering of the Aged (2026)
Gathering of the Aged (2026) An image of a cluster of large rocks huddled together on the beach as is common for their age. even the rocks are dying even the rocks are dying. now that we’re here in a cene of our making, time to hold what’s left. palm sized & glossy we call out to other guts, flayed green crystal planes of tempered stone. we call out to each other then complain about the echo. - marion eames white
January 16, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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Near Jenness Beach (2026)
Near Jenness Beach (2026) A beach scene on a sunny day with the sun glowing on the rocky shore in gold, green, blue, and brown. A small house overlooks the ocean.
January 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Memento Mori (2026)
Memento Mori (2026) An image of a sculptured garden fountain attached to a gate or tombstone, discolored by time with elements of bruised purple tones and black bleeding through.
January 12, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Usonian Boundary Issues (2026)

Unexpected consequences where structure merges with its environment.

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#franklloydwright
#boundaryissues
Usonian Boundary Issues (2026) Unexpected consequences where structure merges with its environment. A scene where the living room of a Usonian house merges with its exterior and surrounding landscape. In 1936, Wright developed a series of homes he called Usonian. They were designed to control costs. Wright's Usonian houses had no attics, no basements, and little ornamentation. He continued to develop the concept, and in the early 1950s he first used the term Usonian Automatic to describe a Usonian style house made of inexpensive concrete blocks. The modular blocks could be assembled in a variety of ways. Wright hoped that home buyers could save money by building their own Usonian Automatic houses. But assembling the modular parts proved too complicated for most hired contractors to build. (From Frank Lloyd Wright library on Usonian Automatic homes) #usonian #franklloydwright #boundaryissues
January 9, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Hideaway (2026)
Hideaway (2026) An image of a cottage hidden in the forest overgrown with moss.
January 7, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Tomorrow the Stars (2026)
Tomorrow the Stars (2026) An image of magic realism where a quiet cold winter night with a moon close to full is giving away to a galaxy of stars.
January 5, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Dissolving Distances (2026)
Dissolving Distances (2026) A multi-layered image of a forest superimposed with a view of mountains and a body of water. Deep greens and burnt orange with elements of blue swirl together.
January 2, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Big Boutonniere with Buttons (2025)
Big Boutonniere with Buttons (2025) A bright yellow and white bouquet exploding out of a red and white field of buttons and a play on the word boutonniere normally placed in a buttonhole.
December 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Infestivus (2025)

"Infestivus - For the last of us"

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Infestivus (2025) "Infestivus - For the last of us" A sprawling Chistmas tree infested with the spirit of commercialism and anxiety but still looking pretty.
December 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Good Dog Cosmo (2025)

Photo collage using an image of Cosmo by my daughter-in-law and a painting by Johannes Vermeer "Woman Holding A Balance". Good boy Cosmo!
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Good Dog Cosmo (2025) Photo collage using an image of Cosmo by my daughter-in-law and a painting by Johannes Vermeer "Woman Holding A Balance". 2025 has been bittersweet. Good visits with friends but death and sadness sprinkled throughout. My mother-in-law passed away in August and father-in-law just before Christmas. And my son's in-laws Thanksgiving was cancelled due to serious injury. Thanksgiving with my kids was happy but our grand-dog Buster died in the car on my son's journey home. Sometimes life sucks but shortly before Christmas, Cosmo joined the family and has settled right in bringing new energy and joy where sadness ruled. Hope 2026 is better for all of us. Good boy Cosmo!
December 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Containment Failure (2025)
Containment Failure (2025) An abstract image of a set of concentric rectangles floating in space over sunset where the innermost rectangle has burst one of its sides. Cage Through the branches of the Japanese cherry Blooming like a cloud which will rain A rain white as the sun The living room across the roadway Cuts its square of light And in it fight Two figures, hot, irate, Stuck between sink and sofa in that golden cage. Come out into the night, walk in the night, It is for you, not me. The cherry flowers will rain their rain as white Cool as the moon. Listen how they surround. You swing among them in your cage of light. Come out into the night. - Josephine Miles
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Slowly Dissolving Illusion (2025)
Slowly Dissolving Illusion (2025) An image of a landscape obscured by several layers of images on top which are slowly dissolving leaving parts of the landscape visible.
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Garden Spider of Earthly Delights (2025)

Photo-collage of Marbled Orb Weaver photo by Mike Dunn for Walter Magazine
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Garden Spider of Earthly Delights (2025) Welcome to the garden of earthly delights. Welcome to a billion Arabian Nights. This is your life and you do what you want to do, This is your life and you spend it all. This is your life and you do what you want to do, Just don't hurt nobody, 'less of course they ask you, In the garden of earthly delights. - Andy Partridge (XTC) Photo-collage includes the Marbled Orb Weaver photo by Mike Dunn for Walter Magazine
December 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Into The Black (2025)
Into The Black (2025) A lone figure walks through a tangled forest at night hoping for the light...
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM