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Laurie Agard
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Author, filmmaker, American Aussie married to extraordinary Dr, proud mom sister aunt daughter, PhD, traveler, volunteer, reader, mosaicist, minpins & cockatiel, ally, x-college athlete who loves sports 🏀 💙 🐾 🌈📕 🧳 🎥
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Laurie Agard @laurieagard.com · Jan 6
Love from Luna and Benji 💫💙
A red and black and tan miniature pincher, heads cuddled together as they sleep.
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“Autorretrato (Self-Portrait)” by Clara Ledesma (Dominican) - Oil on wood panel / 1952 - Museo Bellapart (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) #WomenInArt #ClaraLedesma #Ledesma #BlueskyArt #art #artText #MuseoBellapart #DominicanArt #selfportrait #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #CaribbeanArt
In this vertical self-portrait, Dominican artist Clara Ledesma shows herself in profile, seated and absorbed in hand-stitching a pale cloth that pools like soft light across her lap. Her deep brown skin is modeled in violets and blues, edged with electric lime highlights that echo a vivid green background. A fitted, sleeveless top with sculpted collar wraps her torso, its strong yellow-green planes carved out by broad, visible brushstrokes. Her hair is piled high in a sweeping, sculptural updo, emphasizing the elegant line from neck to shoulder. Long, angular arms bend toward the right edge, fingers carefully pinching needle and fabric. The space around her dissolves into a halo of greens, so our attention stays on her concentrated face, focused eyes, and slight, knowing smile: a Black Caribbean woman at work and almost illuminated from within. Painted when Ledesma was in her late twenties, this work joins self-representation with everyday labor, casting the artist as both maker of images and maker of cloth. In early 1950s Ciudad Trujillo, Ledesma was one of the few women graduates of the National School of Fine Arts and a rising figure in Dominican modernism. Here, her expressionist palette and vigorous brushwork anticipate the dreamlike, magical worlds of her later paintings while remaining grounded in the reality of Black Dominican womanhood. The luminous greens push against the darkness of her silhouetted profile, suggesting resilience and inner focus amid a repressive political climate. Created just as she was gaining recognition and preparing for study in Europe, this self-portrait can be read as a quiet declaration of authorship as Ledesma stitches her own image and future, affirming her place as a foundational voice in 20th-century Caribbean art.
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Potsdam
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Elton releases “Levon” 54 yrs ago today.

“I wasn’t writing about a literal man,” said lyricist Bernie Taupin. It’s a portrait of someone “born into something he didn’t choose — carrying the weight of it, trying very hard to preserve dignity in the middle of a world that’s already moving beyond him”
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Covered Bridge #Photography
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Good morning! Happy Sunday!
Respites are needed, however brief, for clouds to pass, waters to steady, to immerse in enjoyment of those who surround.
Have a beautiful day, my friends!
#Stunday #photography #landscapephotography #sky #clouds #EastCoastKin #maine
Clouds above the York River a slight reflection in the water reflections from the trees on the left land centering the photo blue showing in between the stormy clouds
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Ventura Pier #Stunday
#photography
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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📷️Nikon Zf
📸PENTAX Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR 50mm F1.4
#photography #fotografía #Nikon #Zf
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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'Koffein' #FotoVorschlag
Das Foto zeigt eine weiße Kaffeetasse auf einer passenden Untertasse, die auf einem hellen Holztisch steht. In der Tasse befindet sich ein Cappuccino oder Latte Macchiato mit kunstvoll gestalteter Milchschaumzeichnung auf der Oberfläche. Das Muster zeigt zwei stilisierte Blätter oder Farnblätter, die sich spiegeln und in die Mitte des Getränks hineinragen. Auf der Vorderseite der Tasse steht das Wort „HEILANDT“ in schwarzen Großbuchstaben, darunter ein kleiner Schriftzug, der schwer lesbar ist, es ist der Name des Cafés/der Rösterei. Ein silberner Löffel liegt auf der Untertasse, der Griff zeigt nach rechts. Der Hintergrund ist verschwommen. Das Foto wurde in einem Café aufgenommen. Die Atmosphäre wirkt ruhig und gemütlich.
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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'Koffein' #FotoVorschlag
Kaffeetasse mit Sirup verschönert
November 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Edward Steichen

Calla Lily - c. 1921
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Whistle🐸
#art #illustration
A frog sitting in a boat on a lake. It is early morning with a moody, foggy vibe
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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My entry for #WoodpeckerWednesday is this Pileated Woodpecker in my yard a few years ago in #Tacoma. #Birds #Nature #Photography
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Farmers cross a leafless tree on the outskirts of Hanoi.

Photography by Tran Tuan, Tran Tuan Viet [FB]

#photography #black&white #bicycle #trees #countryside
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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#macro #MacroPhotography #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #EastCoastKin

Unexpected Self-Portrait 😉
A close-up macro photograph of a single water droplet hanging from a pale green and lavender plant stem. The droplet is sharply defined, reflecting soft pastel colours from the blurred background. Within the droplet, a faint reflection of a person is visible—showing the top of their head and the outline of their glasses—while the surrounding petals and stems remain smooth and out of focus.
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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A wonderful thing is a pelican

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OnTheEdge of water
#seabird #birds #photography
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Pure #flow. Happy #WaterfallWednesday!
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I is for Interior

An adult and 11 young Eurasian Blue Tits inside a specially constructed nest box in south Cheshire, England.

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Misty mornings
@stormhour.com #photohour #royaltunbridgewells #misty
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Inside Aachen Cathedral
#WindowsonWednesday #WeekVforVowels #alphabetchallenge #patterns
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Abduction.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVForVowels
#WackyWednesdayArt
A sculpture of two metal insect-like figures made of nails, bolts, and other industrial materials carrying a rope-bound garden gnome over their heads.
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Blue Heron perched in tree along Fox River #birds
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Finger-paint artist: Iris Scott
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Creative Snow Patterns by my 4 year old Harmon, 1955. Art Shay. Gelatin silver print.
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM