Tom Ogburn 🪔
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Tom Ogburn 🪔
@bardicarts.bsky.social
A visual artist & writer enjoying Bluesky🦋💙 Creating & writing for a new sequence of works:

The Parkways Projects: The Blue Ridge/The Skyline Drive Parkways, Great Smoky Mountains & Shenandoah NP @parkwaysprojects

#EastCoastKin #ArtYear
🌙 'Palisade over Drake,' #pastel A #pleinair work done back in October 1997 on Bobcat Ridge, Colorado.

Hey everybody! I'm hard at work, up against a deadline, but will be back soon!

##nature #RockyMountains #RockinTuesday #EastCoastKin #Artsyear
August 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
🌙🦉🪔 Exhale #DigitalCollage #Photography #Hybrids
#ArtYear #EastCoastKin #SensoryArt #Vintage
#smArtist #Internalization #ContemporaryTuesday

“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear."

#WilliamShakespeare
June 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
22 small panels as a start, having driven back to SC in the fall of 2017 for my mother had died. Arriving Oct 1 to find me without a place to stay; family had altered course. But that's another story.

22 Starts at the farm in North, SC #Hybrids #Painting #Bluesky🦋 #Stunday in terms of reality 🌙🦉
June 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
🌙 A Dieselpunk sunset #TomOgburn #Photography #Landscape #ArtYear #EastCoastKin
#BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant

Smoke & contrails in the Sky above Lake Marion Oh My!

“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.” ≈ Pat Conroy 'The Prince of Tides'
June 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Blue sky, green tin & weeds #Photography #TomOgburn
#Urban #Rural #MinimalistMonday #BlueSkyMonday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin

"Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks." #RolandBarthes

⬇️4ALT
May 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Wrought, dun, and coal, from 'Rainy Courtyard' series #Photography #TomOgburn #Urban #Streetscape
#MinimalistMonday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?" ≈ Thomas Merton

⬇️4ALT
May 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
At play in the field of the Goblins #Photography
#TomOgburn #Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

A rather stunning slab of concrete.

“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect..." the rest of this quote in within the ALT text...🌙🦉

⬇️4ALT
May 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
#SelfPortraitSunday #Photography #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Cityscape #Stunday

Prompt: #OnTheEdge

2021, both Covid's debut & the Bear Fire all around Helper for 96 days straight. My location? The town's only liquor store, with very old signage I loved.

North American rampant fires now 33 years 🦉😰🔥
May 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Aurora's Sentinel aka de Chelly #DigitalCollage
#TomOgburn #DigitalHybrid #Illustration
#Stundayc#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Photoshop

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose” ≈ Mary Shelley

🧵⬇️4ALT
May 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
3️⃣🛤️ the idea of suites of photos be offered on same subjects or micro-locales, such as a suite of about 40 photographs selected out of over 900 photos made of my utterly unique Helper rail-side back courtyard. Like this one, "Unhinged—Unfettered' #photography #ArtYear #TomOgburn
May 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Charcoal Sky #photography #TomOgburn #ArtYear
2001 Helper, Utah.
⬇️4ALT
May 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
May 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Eunice's Dreams of Laurel and Cornflowers #TomOgburn #DigitalCollage #Hybrids #photography #collage #ArtYear

🦉This one is still in process, so, a WIP. It's the way I move through the Hybrid works, this being the first time I've warped it over into digital mode from the original collage 🌙

⬇️4ALT 🧵⬇️
May 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
May 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
May 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
May 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
May 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
May 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
May 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
May 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" ≈ Paul Gauguin

Estrella Contra #TomOgburn #DigitalCollage #Hybrids
#collage #HumansOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #ArtYear
⬇️4ALT
May 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
🌙“The public and private worlds are inseparably connected... the tyrannies and servilities of one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.” ≈ Virginia Woolf, 'Three Guineas'

Goodnight #Bluesky🦋 I need to watch something again🦉
#VirginiaWoolf #ThreeGuineas #Mindfulness #Observation
Video⬇️🧵
April 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
4th #VirtualPalladium works drop (each VP has more info in ALT text)

Alt self portrait #TomOgburn #digitalcollage (series 2007-14) These are fellow creatives from all disciplines. Two series began here.

#EastCoastKin 🦋 #ArtYear #landscape #photography #skyart #blueskyart #digitalart #digital 4️⃣ALT⬇️
March 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Eunice (the darkness of cornflowers) #TomOgburn #Stunday #Skyart #BlueskyArt #Postmodern #Hybrids
#painting #collage #acrylic #artbrut #SouthernGothic
#EastCoastKin 🦋 #ArtYear

The Hybrids: A series begun in 2017 using any media & mode at my disposal. I weave & weld between analog to digital ⬇️4alt 🧵
March 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
March 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM