Bathed in magenta light, a pair of artists peek into the bottom edge of a mediocre selfie taken before a designed organic mass at Meow Wolf Convergence Station.

At the Denver Art Museum, an art enthusiast snaps a selfie that includes the top half of her head as her husband’s face appears along the left edge. They’re in front of a sculpture of a large broom and dust bin created Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg.

The president of the Aaron of the Aaron C Packard fan club sneaks in the left side of this selfie taken with the photographer himself, who apprehensively poses on the right side of the photo. A large resin hyperphotomontage created by Packard hangs from the ceiling at this Untitled.10 exhibition.

On a day too sunny for selfies, a determined person squints into the frame on the left side. Over her left shoulder, another brave soul stands outside of the Sioux City Art Center.

Allow me to introduce you to the concept of the Selfie Paradox: the more fun I’m having, the worse my selfies get.

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Painter Klaire Lockheart managed to create the two large detailed oil paintings hanging on white gallery walls but somehow cannot take a decent selfie. The artist appears in the lower left corner while her handsome husband, wearing a black cap, is shown in the lower right corner.

In this selfie, a doofus with braids peeks into the left side as a man in a black coat steps in frame on the right. The couple flanks a woven work of art by Phyllis W. Packard at the Coyote Gallery.

Before a hazy cloud generated from unseen burnout tires at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip, a person with terrible allergies takes a selfie, which documents herself in the lower right quadrant wearing a black mask. The left corner includes a bewildered/be-hatted photographer clutching his camera.

This selfie was taken by the person cowering in the lower right corner, and it includes her suave husband’s face in the bottom left corner. The humans were at Dinosaur Park, which includes a green and white cement sauropod at the top of the hill along with a creative interpretation of a Tyrannosaurus rex.

I definitely have fallen behind on sharing some of our adventures this year!

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A doofus takes a selfie that includes half of her face on the left side of the frame, her handsome husband squinting in the sun as his transition lenses darken, and a triceratops sculpture in the background at the Washington Pavilion.

Overshadowed by her hair barely contained within a red bandana, the top half of Klaire Lockheart’s head peeks into the lower left corner of this selfie, which features the concerned looking Aaron C Packard. Behind the couple is the Thunderdomesticity: Witness Me art installation of art prints wheat-pasted to the exterior orange wall at Fotolab No.7.

Under a gray cloudy sky and before the exterior the Bemis Center’s brick building, an artist snaps a selfie that only includes the top portion of her head in the lower right corner along along with a sliver of a profile of a photographer.

Within the crowded Norse Art Space, an art enthusiast barely makes it into her own selfie by only appearing in the lower left corner, but her suave companion is featured in the lower center of the frame.

Here are a few bad selfies with my favorite photographer from this year!

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A pair of exhausted artsy nerds peek into the lower edges of this vertical photo that highlights two large oil paintings of swooning brodalisques in the corner of a white-walled gallery.

Here’s a sneak peek of my art at No. 7 in Vermillion, SD. Thank you to my wonderful husband Aaron C Packard for helping transport these wily beasts. Somebody* should buy him a drink after the art reception!

*By “somebody,” I mean me.

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