The text "Why?!" painted in brown paint on the white exterior of a building. Paint from the words drips down the wall. Black paint from graffiti above the word also drips down the wall.

why

St. Louis, MO. March 2026.

#Photography #STL #FoundWords

A boarded up food mart convenience store with heavily weathered siding. Black spray paint across the store reads, "Love is the flower you've got to let grow..."

Love is the flower you've got to let grow...

Route 66, CA. February 2019.

#Photography #FoundWords

View into a pickup truck from the front. A woman and man sit in the cab. A rock guard on hood reads, "Skull fucker."

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Omaha, NE. March 2026.

#Photography #Omaha #OmahaStreets #FoundWords

Black spray painting on a red brick wall that reads, "Gots to see it through my boy."

Gots to see it through my boy

Kansas City, MO. October 2025.

#Photography #KansasCity #FoundWords

A weathered sign with handwritten text reads, "All I Want is for Morals, Honer [misspelled], and Love For God and Country to be Real Again!"

Morals, honer, and love for God and country

This one put me in a quandary. I found this sign crumpled and only half-visible in the hedge behind where it lays here. For my found words project, is it cheating to move it? Ethical dilemmas...

Omaha, NE. February 2026.

#Omaha #FoundWords

The side of an abandoned home that is falling apart reads, "I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up and all that. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My Sister was only a very tiny child then, and She was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean."

Found words series

Wasilla, AK. April 2014.

#Photography #FoundWords #Wasilla

Green text spray painted on a highway bridge concrete guard rail reads, "Flirt. Gather hats. Have fun!" A forest-lined river, railroad bridge, and city buildings lie in the distance beyond the text.

Found words series

Kansas City, KS. October 2025.

#Photography #KansasCity #FoundWords #NewTopographics

Ripped fragments of yellowed pages from a book lay in the snow.

Found words series

Ripped pages from what appears to be a book of daily Bible readings (?)

Omaha, NE. November 2025.

#Photography #Omaha #FoundWords

"Capture" Another piece inspired by my partner (and sub). #handcutcollage #artpoetry #limitedwordpoem #poetry #collage #cutandpaste #artjournal #mxdmediabyneko #mxdmedia #analogcollage #foundwords #domsubart

Found on the side of a concrete block, the words and drawings of an unknown poet

#WorldPoetryDay #poetry #found #graffiti #wordsonwalls #wordsky #poetrysky #foundwords #poem #prose #merlinsbeard #bilbobaggins #streetpoet

Paperweave with multicolors on the last page of an art journal, accented with shapes of trees and the moon. Excerpts taken from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice are arranged on top: “The truth will come to light.” “The devil can cite Scriptire for his purpose” “… leisure answers leisure…” “… a good divine…” “… speechless messages…” Inside cover adjacent to last page has torn images of a sacred heart and immaculate heart.

Last page in journal. 🩷
Zoom in on arrow… #notmypresident
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#artistsofbluesky #womensart
#artjournal #sketchbook #printmaking #collage #analog #foundwords #imagetransfer #mixedmedia #mixedmediaartjournal #spiritualconnection #creativeprocess #create #joy #calm
#sensoryprocessingsensitivity

we
could
climb over or through
so we did

(Mixed media art collage journaling: hand-cut repurposed paper, colored pencil, found words assembled from various source materials)

More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings

#collage #mixedmediaart #analogcollage #foundwords #poetry

A visual art journal opened to display analog collage placed across the page with the words “L’Artiste histoire de l’art contemporain” on a handmade print background of lace in acrylic cadmium red and aqua green, splattered with white.

#artistsofbluesky #womensart
#artjournal #artjournaling #sketchbook #printmaking #collage #foundwords #imagetransfer #alteredprint #mixedmedia #mixedmediaartjournal #spiritualconnection #creativeprocess #create #joy #calm
#sensoryprocessingsensitivity

An afternoon of printmaking using found materials and images in my studio 🤩
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#artjournal #artjournaling #printmaking #collage #foundwords #imagetransfer #alteredprint #mixedmedia #mixedmediaartjournal #spiritualconnection #creativeprocess #growing #create #joy #calm
#sensoryprocessingsensitivity

Art journal page in altered book of intuitive painting of a cartoonlike rabbit character wearing a blue bow tie, sitting in a green field with pink skies, holding a blue mug of coffee with found text "with coffee and fragments of poetry for breakfast". 13-Feb-2022

Day 19 Liquid #JanuArty

With coffee
And fragments of poetry
For breakfast

#artjournal #foundwords

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