Read The Room (2026) An image of a doorway opening onto a crowd protesting the authoritarian yearnings of a certain US politician to become king. We don't need kings. We need leaders for the people rather than their own narcissistic dreams and bank accounts...
Read The Room (2026)
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Good Dog Cosmo (2025) Photo collage using an image of Cosmo by my daughter-in-law and a painting by Johannes Vermeer "Woman Holding A Balance". 2025 has been bittersweet. Good visits with friends but death and sadness sprinkled throughout. My mother-in-law passed away in August and father-in-law just before Christmas. And my son's in-laws Thanksgiving was cancelled due to serious injury. Thanksgiving with my kids was happy but our grand-dog Buster died in the car on my son's journey home. Sometimes life sucks but shortly before Christmas, Cosmo joined the family and has settled right in bringing new energy and joy where sadness ruled. Hope 2026 is better for all of us. Good boy Cosmo!
Good Dog Cosmo (2025)
Photo collage using an image of Cosmo by my daughter-in-law and a painting by Johannes Vermeer "Woman Holding A Balance". Good boy Cosmo!
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Dragon Wind (2025) An image of Chinese dragons caught in a chaos of winds in deep purples and blues... The Dragon found-art is from a photo of a now painted-over mural (artist unknown) on the defunct Saki Bomb restaurant in Worcester MA. History is re-written, culture eats itself, but memories live on. 龙风
Dragon Wind (2025)
The Dragon found-art is from a photo of a now painted-over mural (artist unknown) on the defunct Saki Bomb restaurant in Worcester MA. History is re-written, culture eats itself, but memories live on! 龙风
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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...
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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)
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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)
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A surreal picture of a gold stick-figure on a red patterned background showing various stages of walking.
Full Contact (2025)
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#cartoonsurrealism
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#edped
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An impressionistic image of a shower of white Phalaenopsis orchids on a rainy day.
Rainy Day Orchids (2025)
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A brightly colored image of part of a carpet with a scene of a ocean-side bridge and landscape superimposed on it, lending a bit of magic to what otherwise be a beautiful seaside landscape. The Vocation Lit with strange carpentry magic — they build time-shares in her head. They carve names deep in wood, erect beams of metal to hold up the invincible defense of a bad history. They mourn what’s subjective. They are shutters closed. Sometimes I imagine such men in flip-flops with fat towels draped over confident shoulders. I imagine they all live in Texas, and find South Padre too hot, and then I imagine them blaming diversity for everything. Here, in the middle of grief, we pout to the rhythm of their sentences. Suns hiss in their dreams. Soon such critics will meet daily for prayers. The Pharisees identify the guilty woman. They are gathering sticks for a witch burning. Curandera lit with the fire of sighs, casts spells, burns sage, sweats in a lodge, her own prayers flaming. - Sheryl Luna
Magic Carpet (2025)
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#diversitymatters
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A surreal image of a surfer superimposed by a partially transparent NASA picture of the planet Jupiter enhanced by infrared sensors
Surfs Up Somewhere (2025)
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#notai
#surfingtheapocalypse
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A surreal landscape image of Lake Temisquata where the sky is divided by images of a further landscape breaking through and a small surreal portrait of my inner turmoil for all to see. lac du fromage skipping over stones like an ocean, plopped down into a well of forgot, a forest grown sharp with swords. into the bull rushes of naked thoughts, there I place my bet. big puffy dragon clouds visit me personally, but I can think of nothing but rhymes like ed ped has lost a leg, and knows not where to find it. riderless snow mobiles are under the road, where bus aliens are abducting the blind men. the bad cartoons on the news in our heads demand the death of dissent. attacking blindly. The hissing of drones as generals mix the warpaint. we are such a strange tribe of curiously deadly signs, bent hopes, and lies. trying to out-think what tomorrow may never bring. I would be more concerned about the future, but somewhere the cheese of the lake has broken free, and is threatening world peace.
Confronting My Inner Turmoil on Lac Temisquata (2025)
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An abstract image of a cartoon octopus drawn in the sand along with a toy mermaid atop a sea of alternating currents. Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately It is day infinity of everyone wanting me dead. People are having fun bringing lemon squares and automatic artillery to the anti-trans community meetings. Divorced legislators harangue about pedophile cults and surgeried infants and what ever happened to forever ago. I am more beautiful than you and I would like to be loved. I am getting concerned about the monomaniacs who make their entire lives about deadnaming and transvestigations: obviously it’s working but aren’t you exhausted, don’t you remember when someone loved you without knowing what you were? I am eating shortbread on a patio table overlooking the enormous green ocean. Somewhere an octopus is being eaten by an octopus and not panicking. Black dress to the floor, red acrylic nails, silver teardrop earrings, waterproof mascara. I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified. I hear a noise behind me and I don’t turn around. - Jackie Sabbagh
Octopus & Mermaid (2023)
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An abstract and stylized sea of pansies in rainbow colors to celebrate Pride Month.
Pride (2025)
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The famous "Le Déjeuner des canotiers" is an 1881 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It shares the impressionist obsession with lighting and softness and depth. And is quite representational when viewed close-up. I was however interested in how these qualities led to abstraction, as in Monet's later water-lily paintings where the painting seen close-up is quite abstract. But when seen from a distance becomes an impressionistic and representational scene of water-lilies on a pond. This piece was done combining images of a rocky surface with Renoir's original in order to achieve a similar effect but in a much smaller perspective and scale.
Renoir on the Rocks (2025)
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A close-up image of a bonsai shaped tree with orange and deep red foliage in front of a blue wall.
Bonsai (2005)
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Migratory Flight (2025) An impressionistic abstract of flowers in flight as though driven by the wind or season to escape the harshness of the season. Migratory Flight We could deny our winters, refuse to cut our hands mining the sharp ores of grief. Whenever the cold comes, we could follow the arrowheads of geese shafting south to an azure place where whales sing offshore and otters frolic in the wonton surf. We could grow soft as children in the arms of leisure, but we might never learn in time how to stoke the cold fire of the will In that winter we cannot refuse, when we must glean from the icy fields the last scattered grains we once disdained, with only the luminous pallor of the moon scarfed in clouds to light our way, rising above the outstretched arms of the trees on its long slow journey through the night - Fred Dings
Migratory Flight (2025)
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Une image d'un coucher de soleil sur le rivage à marée haute sur le Bas-Saint-Laurent au Québec, Canada An image of a shore-line sunset at high-tide on the Lower Saint-Lawrence in Quebec, Canada
Marée haute Bas-Saint-Laurent (2020)
a pebble in pond
high tide riding on sunset
sky city beyond
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#chiarascuro
#rippleeffect
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An abstract picture of a transparent bouquet of Spring blossoms on top of an image of barren tree limbs.
Spring Blooms on Dead Limbs (2025)
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Many rivers exist simultaneously in my wandering eye, both near and far away. A surreal view of the St John River in Fredericton NB Canada.
Many Rivers to Cross (2025)
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Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes, is a long, narrow oligotrophic lake located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains, in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York in the town of Lake George. It lies within the upper region of the Great Appalachian Valley and drains all the way northward into Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence River drainage basin. The artists Georgia O'Keeffe spent many summers painting in Lake George before moving west to New Mexico. This reimagining of Lake George Reflections by O'Keeffe retains the modernist flow but reflects winter rather than the lake in a multi-layer surreal form.
Lake George Reflected in Winter (2024)
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A surreal imagining of a giant frost heave affecting a neighborhood cul-de-sac
Frost Heaves (2025)
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