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and we learn something

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:31:15 +0000

Cut-paper collage. Woman with yellow from a painting by Noah Davis. Words from an artwork by L. Pope. Fossil photographed by Giraud Foster & Norman Barker. It's Sphenophyllum, a once-ubiquitous creeping plant, related to horsetails, that went extinct shortly after the Carboniferous period.

This collage was inspired by this time when we go everywhere with masks on, so our facial expressions come only through our eyes. I'm not sure what we're learning, but maybe it includes the fact that we need closeness, we need each other's faces, hands & bodies, more than we knew we did.

we are various, but we flow

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:01:42 +0000

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Cut-paper collage with clear gesso & acrylic paint. 9" x 11 1/2"

dada pc for moreno

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Fri, 01 May 2020 21:43:34 +0000

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Cut-paper collage postcard, front & back.

silvery objects with boxfish

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:06:12 +0000

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Greetings, fellow ipernitinos! I am struggling a lot with my damaged legs, but I am walking around, very slowly, and basically doing fine. I can't get up the stairs and down the hallway to my studio very often, but I am in my studio right now, as I am typing these words. =smile=

I made this collage for a swap on swap-bot. The title of the swap was "Put a Fish on It." It's a cut-paper postcard-—nothing digital about it.

home stomping ground

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:07:39 +0000

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Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme "A Journey."

This collage is autobiographical: the journey depicted, from Los Fresnos, Texas, around the Laguna Atascosa ("lah-GOO-nuh ah-tahs-KOH-suh"), and back again, actually happened, In late February, 2005, my husband and I drove down from Houston, stayed in a little motel in Los Fresnos, and spent several days exploring, observing plants & wildlife, and soaking up the atmosphere of this beautiful area, the southernmost tip of Texas. The weather was fabulous: clear blue skies, bright sun, and temperature around 70 degrees F. (21 degrees C.). We went to a number of places, including the Laguna Atascosa Wildlife Refuge—which isn't on this road map published in 1948, 'cause the refuge didn't exist yet.

To get you oriented: the Gulf of Mexico is to the east, on the righthand side of the map, the snaky blue line at the bottom is the Rio Grande, and the blank area underneath it is Mexico.

We saw lots of different species: the five in this collage are particular favorites of mine. Starting in the upper left and going counter-clockwise, you're looking at
(1) Spanish dagger (AKA trecul yucca)
(2) green jay (bright green on its back & tail)
(3) chacalaca (named for its loud repeating call at dawn and dusk: "CHOCK-uh-LOCK-uh")
(4) javelina ("hah-vuh-LEE-nuh") (AKA collared peccary; a small wild pig)
(5) aplomado ("ah-ploh-MAH-doh") falcon (once prevalent throughout Texas and nearby states, then it was wiped out; now, through the efforts of people from the Laguna Atascosa Wildlife Refuge, who brought eggs up from Mexico and re-introduced it, it's rebounding)

The aplomado falcon is a gorgeous bird from all angles: the photo doesn't really do it justice. See those black-and-white bars inside its wing? When it takes flight, you see those striking bars all over the feathers of its wings and tail.

I grew up in Houston, and spent a lot of time all up and down the Gulf Coast of Texas. So this is indeed my home stomping ground. =smile=

Frozen Newsprint

nobody@ipernity.com (William Sutherland) — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:34:34 +0000

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Mamaroneck, NY

End of Time

nobody@ipernity.com (William Sutherland) — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:18:46 +0000

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Mamaroneck, NY

American "Scream"

nobody@ipernity.com (William Sutherland) — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:00:29 +0000

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Mamaroneck, NY

Post Apocalypse

nobody@ipernity.com (William Sutherland) — Wed, 27 May 2015 10:20:41 +0000

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Mamaroneck, NY

Alien

nobody@ipernity.com (William Sutherland) — Thu, 14 May 2015 23:45:20 +0000

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Larchmont, NY

Winter on the Hudson

nobody@ipernity.com (William Sutherland) — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 01:16:08 +0000

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Sleepy Hollow and Yonkers, NY

… the gentle Atropos …

nobody@ipernity.com (J.Garcia) — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:40:37 +0000

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António Dacosta, Exhibition

Your visits and comments are very appreciated

"My skin".

nobody@ipernity.com (Annemarie) — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 14:26:58 +0000

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Wish you a marvellous week .
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10-Week Picture Projects: TREES, Wk 5 (Feb 02-08): Tree Bark

Pescatori sul Ticino

nobody@ipernity.com (Nora Caracci) — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 09:35:22 +0000

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Vi racconto una storia:
c'era una volta un ragazzo che per poter frequentare il liceo classico era stato messo in un collegio a Mantova, si era negli anni '20 del secolo scorso, non era facile andare e venire dal suo paese alla città.
Ma... era un ragazzo che avrebbe voluto fare il pittore e poi odiava il collegio con l'obbligo di indossare un'uniforme che comprendeva tra l'altro un duro colletto inamidato, per non parlare di altre assurde regole e di un vitto non certo gradevole.
Così un giorno si vendette i libri e con il ricavato comprò un biglietto per Bologna, dove intendeva rivolgersi a una scuola di pittura; fu riacchiappato sul treno e riportato in collegio. Suo padre gli disse: "prima finisci gli studi, poi potrai fare quello che vorrai della tua vita" e così si rassegnò e si dedicò allo studio, lasciando la pittura solo alle vacanze estive.
Purtroppo durante il suo secondo anno di Università a Pavia, suo padre morì e lui si ritrovò costretto a lavorare studiando, per poter mantenere madre e sorella che lo raggiunsero a Pavia.
Ancora una volta la sua passione doveva aspettare e il tempo che le poteva dedicare era sempre molto poco.
La vita gli riservò poi altri impegni, non era destino che potesse intraprendere la carriera di pittore...
Finalmente negli anni '60 ebbe maggiore tempo libero e allora, che piacere dedicarsi un po' di più alla sua passione !
Questo dipinto si riferisce a quegli anni ed è ambientato vicino a Pavia, città che lui considerava la sua seconda patria, qui aveva passato gli anni della sua giovinezza, qui aveva conosciuto sua moglie. Gli rimasero una decina d'anni per poter sfogare la sua vena, li sfruttò intensamente.

Questa è la storia del mio meraviglioso papà: Raoul Caracci, pittore per vocazione.

Comincio oggi un album dedicato ai suoi lavori con questo olio su tela del 1968

wow papà, sei su Explore !!!
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