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Maria Strutz
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Artist, printmaker, sculptor, translator of various subjects.
Foxes, owls, stones and bones

I have an online store for some of my limited edition linocuts
https://www.maria-strutz.co.uk/
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The first labyrinth I built in SE London in 2013.
I always wondered whether the foxes were walking the labyrinth at night, or when nobody was looking 🌿🐾🦊
classical labyrinth constructed from sticks ad stones on concrete and gravelly sand. surrounded by grass and trees. Maria Strutz
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Stop the presses, biggest story of the day: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
CCTV captures fox and otter’s tour of Lincoln city centre
A wildlife expert says the footage of the animals wandering past shops and bars is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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classic cars roost
made to drive routes paved over
between ghost towns

🛞
#DailyHaikuPrompt #classiccars #haiku #BlueSkyArtShow #bright #photography #EastCoastKin
~1960 Ford Thunderbird in stilted shadow, teal blue door panel striping white gently mossed body as shapes of other derelict trucks spring from felled leaf distance
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for November 21, 2025: #FREE

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Drawing in white ink against a black background of a wren standing free outside the confines of a bird cage.
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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A fox in a labyrinth 🦊🌀🌒
Painting from a few years ago
#FoxFriday
seated fox in profile, looking to the left. A classical 7 circuit labyrinth superimposed on the fox, with white dots on the demarcation lines. Shades of orange, red, blue and white. Acrylics on paper on canvas, Maria Strutz
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Dark, moody beach scene with dramatic sun rays breaking through heavy grey clouds over calm water and a curved sandy cove.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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In Hookland, many a folkloric tale starts not with ‘A long time ago’ or ‘Far, far away’, but with the line: ‘Out across the dark moor where strange songs are still heard …’ For folklore tells strongly of place and our relationships to it. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore #FolkloreThursday
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Today I've mostly been printing a new set of Hookland bookmarks. All will be revealed when the time is right...🌘
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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overcast skies -
the meteor shower
unseen

#haiku
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Acrow soaring above black clouds
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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NOX is this SATURDAY in LEEDS! Wharf Chambers, 11:30 to 4am. Soborgnost will be doing a set, fresh off the train from supporting Cabaret Voltaire at ICA the night before! Playing everything from OG goth to dark chug. Smoke machines warming up already! Adv tix: ra.co/events/2298566
#leeds #goth
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Allegory of Winter
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19190
"Allegory of Winter" by Remedios Varo presents an enchanting and surreal forest scene with whimsical, tree-like figures encasing delicate animals and plants within translucent vessels. The composition evokes a sense of mysterious stillness and intricate beauty, characteristic of Varo's symbolic and mystical artistic vision.
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Blue Owl Phoenix 💙🪶🌀
Hope is that thing with feathers (Emily Dickinson)
#OwlishMonday
a white and blue owl flying diagonally into the distance to the right corner into a dark star speckled space. A kingfisher flying downwards on the left . a big spiral at the bottom right in orange red shifting into flames. Acrylic painting, shades of orange yellow red white and blue, Maria Strutz
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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The witch works with the season. When the year begins its slow striptease, she reads the language of the trees' wooden bones. Reads tomorrow in a fall of phyllomancy. When birds come to harvest high berries, auspicy is her share. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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A couple of charming carvings of owls by Inuit artist Tudlik (1890–1966) for #OwlishMonday

www.inuitartfoundation.org/profiles/art...
Photograph of a carving of an owl in the green stone serpentine. The owl has it's wings open and has very big eyes. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/owl-262798 Carving of an owl in the green stone serpentine. The owl has it's wings partially open and seems to be looking quizzical. https://firstarts.ca/artworks/3245-tudlik-1890-1966-kinngait-cape-dorset-owl-c.-1958-59/
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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#SundayStonework
The lion footrest on the Tomb of Edward II, Gloucester Cathedral.
A sculpture of a lion on the tomb of Edward II. The king’s feet rest on the back of the lion.
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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People talk about us Children of The Hum as 'weirdo hippies, 'ragged walkers' blindly following something they couldn't hear, couldn't understand. They never understood that we lived in a landscape of wonder. They saw pylons, we saw sublime structures. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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"Or a screech owl" a haunting image on #OwlishMonday
🎨 Arthur Rackham illustration of the tale of 'Jorinda and Joringel', Grimm's Fairy Tales (1925)

#Halloween
An owl is perched on a bough bare of leaves. The silhouette of a castle is in the background, among dark woodlands. The gaze of the owl, although not fixed on the viewer, is powerful; its eyes are amber while the rest of the print is largely in darker browns
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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#OwlishMonday 'Interior No. 133' by Jaco Putker (2021)

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Black and white photomontage of a room decorated with potted plants, a rug, and an old map of the world on the back wall. On the left is a giant owl (I think it's a Boobook owl) with a sign in front saying 'Please do not feed'. To the right two people look on, one with their back to us with a small rodent perched on top of the flat cap hey're wearing.
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Sunday. 3 of Cups.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Fox looking through thorny brambles
up into a starry night sky 🎇
Yesterday's #whistpr prompt
a fox looking up from the bottom left corner to the right corner, through curved bramble branches with very sharp spikes, looking up into a night sky with lots of dotty stars and some constellations. Line drawing, black and white, Maria Strutz
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The council gathers...
Silhouette of seven starlings perched in a row on a television aerial against a pale, cloudy sky.
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM