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Janet Berkman
@jannieber.bsky.social
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Retired but not retiring. Montréalaise.

Reader and raconteur. STEM. Genealogy. Noticing. Practicing my French.
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ICAD 15/61. Collage of magazine pages and rough cut swimmers. #friendship #dyicad2025 #artsky #artchallenge
Collage. Background is curved bands of blue. Three bathing women. All magazine sources.
June 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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ICAD 14/61 Woven collage of book and magazine pages, card stock, packing tape. A riff on the prompt. #leopard #dyicad2025 #artchallenge #artsky
Simple weave pattern of beige book page (horizontal) and light brown magazine page (vertical) with dark cardstock inserted to imitate leopard spots. Covered in clear packing tape.
June 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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ICAD 13/61 Cardstock and paper. #iridescence #dyicad2025 #artchallenge #artsky
Woven light and dark green cardstock. Silver iridescent snake with red forked tongue tucked into the weave.
June 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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ICAD 12/61 Watercolour and stickers. #twig #dyicad2025 #artchallenge #artsky
Three twigs in watercolour with leaf stickers between them.
June 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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ICAD 11/61 Collage. #dyicad2025 #artchallenge #artsky Not really on prompt #tidepool but it’s the tide.
Collage of brown cliffs, green-blue water, lighter blue sky.
June 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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ICAD 10/61. #arrows Brush and fine liner pens, gesso, watercolours. #dyicad2025 #artsky #artchallenge #icad2025
Left half of card is tessellated arrows in two shades of pink, pointing in both directions. Right side is free-form arrows in watercolours pointing right, emerging from the geometric ones on the left.
June 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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#ICAD 9/61. #embroidery Water colour, embroidery floss, stickers (and packing tape on the reverse.) #dyicad2025
June 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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#ICAD 8/61 collage - in celebration of the sun. #dyicad2025 #artsky #artchallenge
Collage with yellow papers, yellow sundress, yellow rose. Outlining with black ink pen.
June 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Just finished Sebastian Barry’s novel “Old God’s Time” for one of my book clubs, and immediately started it over from the top. Such great prose. #BookSky
Text: OLD GOD'S TIME a novel SEBASTIAN BARRY Booker Prize listed author of DAYS WITHOUT END Image of a beach at sunset/beginning of a storm. Wood chair in the breakers, with a cormorant sitting on one of the uprights.
June 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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#ICAD 7/61. Collage with stickers and pen. #midnight #dyicad2025 #artsky #artchallenge #icadchallenge #creativechallenge
Lead sheet for Thelonius Monk’s ‘Round Midnight. Overlaid with stickers (piano, heart, moon). Hand-lettered text box with “let our love be safe and sound when old midnight comes around”.
June 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Day 6/61 Collage: found images and ink stamped with mesh sponge. #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge #dyicad2025
Words ”pour mieux comprendre le monde”. Image of eyeglass frames with Moroccan turret in one lens, and palm fronds and spices in the other. Small random marks of blue ink stamped with humidifier sponge.
June 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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#ICAD Day 5/61 Collage: found images and brush pens. #hydrangea #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge #dyicad2025
Teal green curvaceous vase on background of garden greenery. Hydrangea petals cut from variegated purple paper with purple brush pen markings.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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#ICAD Day 4/61 Brush pens, inspired by #zenspirations. #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge
Horizontal decorative bands, using black fineliner and coloured brush pens.
June 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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#ICAD Day 3/61 Experimenting with watercolour colour pencils and water brush on watercolour paper. #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge
Sunset on a lake. Watercolour pencils on watercolour paper. Water in three different shades of blue. Sun a mix of red, orange, yellow.
June 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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#ICAD! Day 2/61 #spring #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge
Collage of magazine images (tulips, umbrella, salad of green apples, cucumbers, herbs, bouquet of mixed flowers, word ”printemps”.) On 4”x6” card with blue diagonal strips, gray marks, stamped with gray “rain”
June 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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My first #ICAD! Day 1/61 #glimmer #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge
Found image of B&W locomotive at night, with coloured pencil marks, silver stars and crystals, curly ribbon smoke.
June 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Snow on the edge of a building in my hood. Must be a product of the freeze-melt cycle on the sun-warmed stone.
Grey stone wall with a ribbon of snow that has partially curled out and down.
February 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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New visitor in the Old Port today. It was preceded by a small vessel that broke up the ice. The McAsphalt Advantage transports bitumen and oil. Not sure why she’s in this sector of the port which usually houses cruise ships and naval vessels.
Old Port of Montreal with a large tanker, black base and white storage and navigation areas. Surrounded by broken ice.
January 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Next read for #52bookchallenge is Conclave by Robert Harris. Wanted to read it before seeing the film. Will fulfill item 13 “Title is 10 letters or less.”
Book cover. A cardinal (black cassock and red sash) walking alone towards an archway with light shining toward him and a group of cardinals off to the side in a huddle. Tag line for book reads “Thr Power of God. The Ambition of Men.”
January 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Central Library!
Aerial shot of Vancouver Central Library.
January 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Heidegger for Beginners by Eric Lemay and Jennifer A. Pitts. Are You Willing To Die For The Cause: Revolution in 1960s Quebec by Chris Oliveros
January 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Merry #Booksky Christmas to me! From my kids with help from Librairie Drawn & Quarterly.
Three books: Factory Summer by Guy Delisle, Are You Willing to Die for the Cause: Revolution in 1960s Quebec by Chris Oliveros, and George Sand: True Henius, True Woman by Séverine Vidal / Kim Consigny
December 25, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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Started reading this today after noticing her upcoming feature in BBC World Bookclub. Only 1/4 way through and love Rosoff’s voice. #AmReading #BookSky
Cover of ebook “How I Live Now” by Meg Rosoff.
December 14, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Jesus holding an open beer in one hand and a smoking joint in the other. Caption says “Jesus wants to remind you that if you don’t sin he died for nothing.”
December 11, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
Test reads “sorry I can’t come out it’s after 3 pm in winter”. Picture of a child swaddled in lacy garment in richly upholstered chaise.
November 27, 2024 at 7:59 PM