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Christine Swint
@christinens.bsky.social
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Poetry, art, nature, climate, justice. Making little books is my passion. She/her. Más amor, por favor.
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post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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East Cobb, Marietta, GA. We had at least 1800-2000 people at a busy intersection in the shopping district
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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My neighbor’s yard sign.
Bold red and blue letters with a white background say, “Donald Trump is a Racist Pig.”
August 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Today’s #collage is for everyone who feels overwhelmed by the chaos, cruelty, and greed of it all. Rest, Restore, Revive 🩵

If you make art, write poems, or bake bread, keep doing what makes you whole

#community #Solidarity #PeoplePower #artsky
Page spread in a vintage, repurposed book. On the left, a feminine figure rests their hand on a chair. A flower and two moths, the word Rest. On the right, a figure wears a sleep mask. Two cloth flowers, words Restore and Revive
July 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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A #hand-lettered initial for James Baldwin, with a passage from The Fire Next Time, p. 8, where he explains to his nephew that white people are caught in the trap of ignorance of their history, and until they realize it, they will remain trapped in a vision of white supremacy. #restistanceart
A capital letter B in a medieval style with James Baldwin written inside the letter. The letter is black and is decorated with gold ovals and a vine wrapped around the back of the B, which is also a pillar
July 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Some signs from the #nokingsday protest on 17th Street overpass in Atlanta. #DumpTrump #Atlanta
June 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Today’s #collage is a variation on a lesson from a hand lettering class I’m taking online. The text says, “What the actual F, USA?”
Above, a blue san serif block letter F with the words IDEE FRANCE. Below, a white on black version of a similar letter F, white dots all around it, pink capital letters inside that say WTA.
June 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Today’s #collage is a “dream bubble” after the work of mixed media artist Julie Liger-Belair. Text in the corners says, “Even the stars have souls,” by Giordano Bruno, 1548–1600. The Church had him burned at the stake for refusing to recant his beliefs.
9x6
Found images and paper
Mixed media
A surreal collection of various objects and figures—the face of a man in a long white color, oblong blue shapes like eyes, fish or birds, trees and a house with a child’s legs in red shoes and one arm showing. The child is in a house.
May 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Today’s collage is for @pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social weekly challenge 20, #330, a painting from 1825 by William Bonnell.
9x6 book spread
Found paper
#pariscollageclub
#handcut
A face of a person on the right, the mouth, chin, and white necktie of the figure above. A pair of legs in shorts and painted toenails. A flower, hands holding a book
May 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Today’s #collage is another #blahblah who is worried and angry that GOP is trying to take away #Medicaid and destroy our healthcare safety net. Text says, “Here’s an idea—tax billionaires and provide universal healthcare.”
#TaxBillionaires
#Universalhealthcare
A human-like creature with green legs and green skirt hem stands on a green black and white ground. Green plants. Their body is a blue and pink apple shape, fish tails and fins on the head. One eye. Pink plant background.
May 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Today’s #collage is for weekly challenge 19 at @pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social, a photo by Clay Banks. I’ve titled it “Pilgrim House” because the road where the woman is walking reminds me of the Camino in Spain.

9x6 booklet
Found paper
Mixed media
An abstracted house made of elements of a photo of a woman in a red skirt and pumps walking along a country road lined with cypress trees. More collaged elements include a bird, green eyes, other cypresses, and red flowers
May 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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From a few years ago on the panhandle
May 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Today’s #collage is based on a class I’m taking @
www.carlasonheim.com/online-class...
This is my version of a blahblah, for the prompt, “crowd.”

Speech bubbles say, “It’s too crowded over here”
And “But I’m lonely.”
A pink and silver four-legged creature stand in a rock under the sun. On the right, pink bird with human legs
May 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Today’s #collage is based in part on @pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social weekly challenge 18, Studio Portrait of an Unidentified Boxer, circa 1928, maker unknown. F B Butler/Crown Studios Collection. Te Papa. Text bubble says,
“Do you question your sources?
Your sanity?”
A creature with striped green leggings and large black shoes, a hook pulley with chains for a head, and clenched fists, stands on a green and purple striped rock. A green and purple succulent in a clay pot to the left of the figure. A black and white photo of a young white male boxer with raised fists, white leggings, shorts, and black shoes
May 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Today’s #collage is for the prompt,”mysticism.”
The quote, “For where the beginning is, there the end will be,” comes from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas about the teachings of J.C.

9x6 booklet page spread
Found images, paper, and cutouts. Posca markers
African wooden sculpture of a figure in a large headdress, planets, lit candles, a person sitting on a rock gazing at the moon, earth, and Saturn. Handwritten quote says For where the beginning is, there the end will be
April 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Today’s #collage is for the prompt “shadow.”

Handwritten text says,”Shadow Projection is For the Birds.”

9x6 handmade booklet
Found paper and cutouts
A gold bird on the left projects a dark red shadow. On the right, four birds on a decaying tree. Background is gesso
April 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Today’s #collage is for the prompt, “Fake.”

Handwritten text says “Tax Billionaires.”
Center words in cursive say,”Relax! Buy the Dip.”
Was in a particularly bitter mood when I made this.

9x6 book page spread
found paper
cut outs
Posca markers
abstract blue pink and green shapes with stripes and a space age vibe. A pair of eyes looks out of cat eye glasses, a single eye, a smiling, open mouth that appears to say, Relax, buy the dip!
April 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Today’s #collage is for the prompt “cardboard.” The paper bag I used happened to have MADE IN THE USA on it, and it made me incredibly sad.

Handwritten words in Spanish: “Me duele aquí”
9x6 booklet
Found images and paper
Posca marker
A planter full of yellow, pink, and purple flowers on the left. A red winged blackbird above on the right, front and back of a heart with teal arrows pointing at it. Background is yellowed book pages A handmade sketchbook covered with packaging paper and yellow and white tape
April 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Today’s #collage is for “sculpture.” Typed text is the last 5 lines of Shelley’s sonnet.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
A seated stone pharaoh on the left. A dinosaur skull next to it. Rain filled fossil footprints. Dark starry sky and a full moon above rocky cliffs
April 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Today’s #collage is for the prompt “play,” based on @pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social creative challenge 16, an image by Kitagawa Utamaro from the 1790s, via Art Institute of Chicago.
Cursive text says, “Let’s get real… Stop playing!
#ClimateChange #ParisAccord #ResistanceArt
#pariscollageclub
Two Japanese women in kimonos are playing paddle ball with two moons as their ball. Two images of the globe appear, and the sun is at the top. Text in cursive at the bottom in black letters says, Let’s get real, Stop playing!
April 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Today’s #collage is for the prompt “dream.” I was thinking about my own dreams of late and how I’m always trying to get to the water, but I’m never able to actually dive in. I love the energy and joy on the surfer’s face. This is what I hope for young people

Text says, ¡Viva la Revolución!
A woman with dread locks surfs in the ocean, in foreground, smokestacks and rubble, desert cacti. The silhouettes of three people look out at the scene, as spectators
April 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Today’s #collage is for the prompt, “wolf.” I also included a fabulous photo of the moon by Eugene Golovesov via @pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social for their creative challenge week 15.

Text says, It’s time to summon the Wolf Spirit
#analogcollage
A wolf in silhouette at the bottom right. Tangled branches above in dark blues and greens. A full moon appears among the branches. Background is yellowed book pages
April 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Today’s #collage is for the prompt, “Remember.”
Handprinted text along the border says,
Remember the Before Times?
What will be the new Before Times?

9x6 book page spread
Found paper
Giraffe from Amazing Things To Cut Out and Collage
Posca marker
mirrored vintage giraffes on left and right. Birds perch and fly over a background of bright yellow planets and a robin’s egg blue sky. Toadstool forest with red caps behind the giraffes. Dashes and dots of red, gold, and white around all the object. Border in black. A cracked robin’s egg in the grass. I hope the fledgling survived!
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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My #collage for today is for the prompt,”tangle.” I also took inspiration from @pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social weekly challenge of a photo of Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz via Art Institute of Chicago.

9x6 book page spread
found images and paper
water color and Posca markers
four black and white hands layered over red flowers. Hands are mirrored images of each other. Above, two sets of eyes peer out through purple and blue blossoms. Yellow background. Text says, “To See Takes Time.”
April 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Today’s #collage is for the prompt, “wrong way.”

9x6 book page spread
Found paper and images
Watercolor and Posca markers
#Analogcollage
#StockMarketCrash
#FFOTUS
A pilot in astronaut gear with jet wings plummets to earth while birds fly and perch above him. Jagged red lines portray mountains but also stick market crash lines.
April 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM