"An expressionistic image of bright scarlet flowers superimposed with a semi-transparent image of a flamboyance of flamingoes."
#ColorADay #pinkmonday
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#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#expressionism
#flamingoes
Flamingoes (2025)🦩🦩
📸Pat Ludwig
@avataristic.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow
#sunlight
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#surrealism
Eclipse (2025)
🎨📸PatLudwig
@avataristic.bsky.social
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It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
---Franklin P. Jones
#collage #analogcollage #art #iceskating #antiquephoto #alteredphoto #cabinetcard
Manipulated abstract photograph featuring a dark, gloomy, atmosphere with both muted and bright electric colors.
Untitled
#NightmareNov #Dark #AbstractPhotography #AlteredPhoto #ManipulatedPhotography #DigitalArt #PhotoArt #DarkAesthetic #Mystical #Ethereal #Eerie #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Saturday
Lake/Forest/Acid
Digitally altered photograph
[2025]
#Scape #ForestFriday #Reflections #Water #Forest #AbstractPhotography #AlteredPhoto #DigitalArt #Photoart #Originalart #ContemporaryArt #ColorfullArt ##Vibrant #Art #ArtSky #Surreal #ArtistsOnBluesky #EastCoastKin #Friday
An Image of a waterfall grotto in a forested place in greens and brown with an inner center of bright aqua blue. A lovely restful spot in Anderson Japanese Gardens, Rockford IL REFUGE Even as you climb the tenement stairs, you are picturing the disturbances in the dust behind every door, the variations of lust and despair in kitchens too small to actually cook in. Some dog barks bitterly and stops. A cry, some useless interjection, comes from a blank place in the wall. Outside, the day goes brilliantly and obliviously on, like a neighborhood genius who simply won't shut up. Here, in the dim disturbance of your passage—a visitor showing his new lover where he once lived—you are already finding the obscurity you fled. It's still here, and it's no different from what you keep around the house where you live now. Only there, from the doorway from which wafts the stinks of rancid blood and acid burns, does the gleam of an anonymous eye hint of another, vaster, and more deeply corresponding affair, some colloquy you have just missed but should have been here for, that would have cleared your name - Charlie Smith
Refuge (2025)
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#alteredphoto
#photocollage
An image of a Panzer tank on a field ov orage where the tank is firing a large yellow pansy rather than bullets and the tank's desert tan body has been repainted with tightly flower-patterned pansy flowers in shades of pink. Melt the guns, And never more to fire them. Melt the guns, And never more desire them.
PANZY! (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
An image of deep layers of variegated hosta leaves in greens and pinks coming to me in waves in my dreams.
Dream Hostas (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
60 Second Metamorphosis
Music excerpt from ‘The Sirens Call’
- Created completely without AI.
#Metamorphosis #Photography #Video #VideoArt #AbstractArt #ColorfulArt #AbstractPhotography #AlteredPhoto #Digitalart #ElectronicMusic #Synth #MusicSky #EastCoastKin
A ghostly chromatic picture of my mother-in-law as a young woman just graduating from nursing school and heading into her practice at the Royal Vic in Montreal. Lovely and accomplisihed person passing now into shadow corridor of existence.
Beyond the Pale (2025)
May her spirit find peace in the eternal sea of existence...
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#beyondthepale
#eternalspirit
#avataristic1
A colorful abstract in greens, browns, blues, oranges and reds expressing the idea of stratified layers
Strata (2008)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#abstractart
#strata
What the Heart Wants (2025) A surreal image of a crimson phlox entangled with a purple coneflower drawn together by chance and yet thriving in acceptance of each others lovely differences. A cloud of deep purple hydrangeas look on with approval. The Ambition Bird So it has come to this – insomnia at 3:15 A.M., the clock tolling its engine like a frog following a sundial yet having an electric seizure at the quarter hour. The business of words keeps me awake. I am drinking cocoa, the warm brown mama. I would like a simple life yet all night I am laying poems away in a long box. It is my immortality box, my lay-away plan, my coffin. All night dark wings flopping in my heart. Each an ambition bird. The bird wants to be dropped from a high place like Tallahatchie Bridge. He wants to light a kitchen match and immolate himself. He wants to fly into the hand of Michelangelo and come out painted on a ceiling. He wants to pierce the hornet’s nest and come out with a long godhead. He wants to take bread and wine and bring forth a man happily floating in the Caribbean. He wants to be pressed out like a key so he can unlock the Magi. He wants to take leave among strangers passing out bits of his heart like hors d’oeuvres. He wants to die changing his clothes and bolt for the sun like a diamond. He wants, I want. Dear God, wouldn’t it be good enough just to drink cocoa? I must get a new bird and a new immortality box. There is folly enough inside this one. - Anne Sexton
What the Heart Wants (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#surrealart
#whattheheartwants
High Water Mark (2025) A surreal image of a beach with the tide coming in with layered images of it stacked high in imitation of the daily tidal cycle. Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger Like fishermen at dusk, the soldiers returned from war with stories slumped over their shoulders; their fingers firm at the knot, the netting, thick and tangled with the names of the dead. None could explain how the flood of life all around them escaped like water from between cupped hands, how the bodies of men they loved began to crust the earth like salt, how destruction danced slapdash and unashamed everywhere, and still they survived. When I came home from college proud, my educated mouth agape, a tackle box of words, slick and glossy and I saw the names of my friends, the young men I fought with, learned to drink with, and left behind Lil’ Rocc, Pumpkin, Ulysses, Junebug, Aghoster names spray-painted throughout our neighborhood in memoriam, I couldn’t understand how a god could make one life possible and strip the world clean of so many, or how, like high-watermarks the dead remind the living of the coming of storms. - Amaud Jamaul Johnson
High Water Mark (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#surrealart
#highwatermark
#avataristic1
There's a Riot Going On (2025) A riot of colored flowers crowding the garden and threatening to escape and escalate the beauty... Repairing the Hubble Telescope "Organizers Abruptly Cancel 25th Anniversary Gala Honoring NASA's Hubble Telescope As Riots Burn Through Baltimore" The camera is having trouble focusing. A blurry spot where the universe is. Outside, a storm is brewing, trashcans into windshields. Outside agitators, a nebula of thick dust. The images are black and white but you can imagine the green of this star's birth as its extra spirals out. This spring a cosmic mirage where you could watch, on every television, the death of a star in a supernova explosion nine billion years ago across the cosmos. Here in Sandtown, six men have broken the spine of another. It was a mistake to send the camera out so quickly. Easy to fix the lens but nearly impossible to reach it, as far out from us as it has drifted already. - Megan Snyder-Camp Repairing the Hubble Telescope "Organizers Abruptly Cancel 25th Anniversary Gala Honoring NASA's Hubble Telescope As Riots Burn Through Baltimore" The camera is having trouble focusing. A blurry spot where the universe is. Outside, a storm is brewing, trashcans into windshields. Outside agitators, a nebula of thick dust. The images are black and white but you can imagine the green of this star's birth as its extra spirals out. This spring a cosmic mirage where you could watch, on every television, the death of a star in a supernova explosion nine billion years ago across the cosmos. Here in Sandtown, six men have broken the spine of another. It was a mistake to send the camera out so quickly. Easy to fix the lens but nearly impossible to reach it, as far out from us as it has drifted already. - Megan Snyder-Camp
There's a Riot Going On... (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#expressionism
#gardenriot
An aerial view of a hypothetical place where different lands overlap with each other in browns and green tones bounded by mountains, clouds, and water.
Overlapping Lands (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#surrealism
#surrealart
#sarawak
#overlapping
#lands
An abstract image in shades of blue, purple, pink, and gray interspersed with symbols of a proposed language for geometry.
Inner Geometry (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#abstractart
#innergeometry
An abstract image of an Icelandic fjord, rich with golds, and browns, and shades of blue-green
Fjord (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#abstractart
#fjord
#iceland
Metamorphosis
Digitally altered photograph
[2021/2025]
#WackyWednesdayArt #EastCoastKin #AbstractPhotography #Alteredphoto #Digitalart #Ahotoart #Originalart #Contemporaryart #ArtistsOnBluesky #Colorfullart #Artsky
An image of a floral display in Fredericton NB of giant bird in brilliant greens, crimson, an pink. It occupies a hillside at the foot of a railroad bridge across the Saint John river.
Great Speckled Bird (2025)
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#surrealism
#greatspeckledbird
#floralart
#avataristic1
A surreal image of the silhouetted face of a woman falling asleep on a NYC bus and drifting back in time to an imagined era and city.
Falling Asleep on a Bus to Never (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#surrealism
#oldnewyork
#pictorialparade
A surreal picture of a gold stick-figure on a red patterned background showing various stages of walking.
Full Contact (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#cartoonsurrealism
#lowbrowart
#edped
#fullcontact
#avataristic1
An image capturing a bed of purple coneflowers and lilies against a wooden fence.
Echinacea (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#echinacea
#purpleconeflowers
#notai
A surreal image of a genuinely surreal event at Fashion Week in Paris. A model wearing a long white gown is elevated upward and the gown expands into a huge pyramid where images of the Louvre are projected creating an otherworldly effect centered in the main gallery.
Fashion Week Parfait (2025)
2025 Fashion Week ended at La Nuit de la Mode with a signature performance Jordan Roth's "Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty", blending dance, music and fashion in the heart of the Louvre.
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#surrealism
#fashionweekparis
#jordan_roth
The Land of Big Bamboo A surreal forest of bamboos in bright green and burnt gold inhabited by the spirit of the forest splitting apart two huge bamboo trees with waves of bright energy. Chinese Silence No. 14 ( after Billy Collins, "Silence" ) You have the right to remain silent. That is your job. A ball gag plugs your mouth, and the immigrant girl with her loud sewing machine has been deported. So tell us about the mind of China. We want to hear the silent blooming of its cherry blossoms, the quiet unfastening of its gowns, its songs of soy sauce and tiny bound feet. Its trains have been blown up by dynamite, its factories bombed into silence. Its mewling puppies have been smothered and its gods are suffocating inside specimen jars. Shanghai has been evacuated and each inhabitant issued an edition of Gary Snyder. So tell us about your ancestors, your grandfather in his bamboo cage, your grandmother drowned in the well. Let’s hear about the unmoving clouds, the stunted trees. Read the poem we have placed in front of you. The Pacific has been drained, and even Ezra Pound has burst from his grave, his moldering hand poised to translate what you do not say. - Timothy Yu
The Land of Big Bamboo (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#surrealism
#bigbamboo
An impressionistic image of a sea of bright green and gold zebraplant leaves covered with a sprinkle of fan-shaped mimosa flowers in bright yellow, red, and orange.
Zebras & Mimosas (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#impressioinism
#zebraplant
#mimosa
A photo collage of the aftermath of the flooding of the Guadalupe river in murky dark colors with family photos taken from the wreckage floating like ghosts over it all.
Texas Flood (2025)
Photo collage done from photos taken by Jim Vandruska, Brandon Bell, and Marco Bello of the recent tragedy in Texas.
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#expressionism
#texasflood
A surreal image of a bright colorful heap emerging from the ground as though some impossible force was pushing it upward. The Price of Rain The truth is that no man has taken anything I didn’t give him. I mean, no man has taken anything I claimed as my own. My body, my stink, my land to plant in. It’s never been about the price of lettuce. How many times have I taken something that did not belong to me? Queen, queen, I croon, pulling up handfuls of greens. My, my. Property’s still theft. I let my wet skin slip through the drainpipe. My mother says love, in our family, means sacrifice. I thought, if I lay my legs on the altar, I thought something would come back to me. Mine, mine. I offered it, being promised rain. Being told my wet was in the common domain. I whispered, Our body, our legs, our compost heap. I gave freely. I gave it for free, thinking that made me wingèd–stork delivering herself to herself. Look how free I am. Dowager Slut. Queen Regent. Turns out, there are no synonyms for King. My lord, my darling, my darkening sky. You can’t buy a thunderstorm. Nor should you bring one back from the dead. But I threw open the gates. I invited them in. I said, Help yourselves. Then watched as they went room to room, taking, emptying the shelves, sucking marrow from the bones, and overhead, the sky filled with rain. - Franny Choi
Big Heap (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#abstractart
#surrealism
#bigheap
A surreal image of the Opera House in Sydney Australia splashed with Van Gogh colors looking like an enormous kitty cat.
Hello Kitty (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#surrealism
#hellokitty
#sydney
An impressionistic image of a shower of white Phalaenopsis orchids on a rainy day.
Rainy Day Orchids (2025)
#art
#alteredphoto
#photocollage
#impressionism
#Phalaenopsis
#rainyday
#avataristic1
