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nobody would ever find the suitcase buried so deep
Black and white image; side of a woman’s face, eye open, mouth open, smashed against the viewing screen as if pressed up against something in the dark, far far below the surface of the world Self portrait; ©lotuscarroll
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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“Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.”
-Carl Sandburg
A woman is soaking in a bathtub with her eyes closed. It is night; a female vampire hovers in the window above the bathtub looking down at her as if she is a tasty snack. self portrait, @lotuscarroll
October 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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See No Evil
#spookymonth
Black and white image; woman with messy blonde hair, covering half her face has an open, completely black eye socket with 5 rivulets of black liquid crying down her face out of it, and a very sharp knife held up next to her face with more of the black liquid dripping down it. self portrait, @lotuscarroll
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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COULDN’T SLEEP. DECIDED TO CHECK ON YOU! DID I WAKE YOU? SORRY ABOUT THAT. GO BACK TO SLEEP. NO REALLY. DON’T MIND ME.
#spookymonth
black and white image; extreme close-up of an eye staring at you frantically
October 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
~Christopher Morley
black and white image, a woman’s face, mouth open, screaming, looking mad as a hatter, her hair flying all around and partially obscuring the left side of her face so that only one frantic eye can be seen. self portrait, © lotus carroll
October 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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his screams were like…
dinner music. 😏🖤💋
#spookymonth
a vampiress with blood running down her chin gives you a mischievous, open mouthed grin, showing her fangs and licking her upper lip
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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An autumn self portrait from the past. 🍁🎃🖤
woman, bare skin, front facing, cropped from just below the nose to just above the dirty pillows. she has vampire fangs, a candy pumpkin clamped between her bared teeth, orange bobbed hair, a pine cone dangling from it, a large red oak leaf stuck to middle of chest, a spattering of pumpkin seeds stuck to the chest and shoulder on the left, and several candy corn stuck to the chest and shoulder on the right. Happy Fall, y’all!
October 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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There's A Dreamer In Every Bunch ツ
#SelfPortraitSunday #Multiplicity
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture #YardWork
Several versions of the same woman (as if she has cloned herself) are doing various yard work tasks (watering, mowing, etc.) in a suburban backyard. One of them is just lying in the middle of the lawn, playing with dandelions.
May 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Here's a #ThrowbackThursday #selfie for #HumansOfBluesky
Almost 15 years ago we were in NYC for the BlogHer conference. All smiles and ready to party the night away with my beloved @kaisermommy.bsky.social ❤️
two happy, smiling women cuddled together and taking a selfie in NYC
April 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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if we exploded
into the sky, every night,
and then started again tomorrow -
who would you be today?

#acoloradayAyPRIL #teal
#smArtist #lightning
#beautyofnature #poetry #ArtYear
a deep teal nighttime sky, with silhouetted, dancing tree tops at the bottom of the image and angry clouds at the top - lightning is snaking through several parts of the image and the electric nature of the air is almost palpable
April 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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TEEHEE. 😄

oops! A day late for #SelfPortraitSunday #LaughOutLoud
#BlurOnPurpose #ArtOfSelfPortraiture
A woman wearing a red top is laughing with an open mouthed grin and eyes closed. The image has motion blur, and the woman’s hair is in motion, and flying up in the air on the right. There is a feeling of joy and mirth.
April 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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you held my hand
by the riverbank at sunset.
my hair, blown by a breeze,
warmed by the sun,
floated around us both;
i whispered a dream
of things to come
into your heart.
we both smiled as the sun
dipped below the horizon,
sealing the deal.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Dream
#PhonePhotography #Poetry
looking at the setting sun through a dense field of orange cosmos flowers. the image is warm and hazy and dreamy.
April 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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she burned across skies
hopping cloud to cloud to cloud
in lavender hues.

#acoloradAyPRIL #Lavender #Photography
#StormChasing #Poetry #Haiku
a stormy cloudscape in lavender and cream bright, squiggly lightning bolts hop from cloud to cloud creating a great burst of light amid otherwise dark and dangerous cloudy skies
April 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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when light falls into darkness

#BlueSkyMonday #MacroMonday #Photography
macro image of water droplets glowing with light on a blue morning glory the image appears halved diagonally as the flower petals and droplets are seen in the upper left corner/diagonal and the lower right corner/diagonal is in darkness
April 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
~Francis Bacon

#SelfPortraitSunday #GritAndGrace
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture #Photography
#ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite
black and white self portrait image: a woman stands, stoically, in deep darkness, wearing a long form-fitting dress. her eyes are closed and head tilted to one side. her facial expression is mournful and resolute. he holds cupped before her at chest level a shining light, and it radiates out from the level of her heart illuminating parts of her face and body. she stands still in the darkness, in simple, elegant defiance of fear and what will be. ©LotusCarroll
April 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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just this
one moment of
s t i l l n e s s
is all that you need
to know you will be
o k a y.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Peaceful
#ClassicMono #Poetry #Photography
an image captured in the Caribbean waters off of Virgin Gorda, black and white, ocean stretching to horizon with mountain seen off to the right; there is a woman in the water, her shoulders and head visible from behind. she seems so small compared to everything else. it's going to be okay.
April 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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#wordlessonwednesday #artofselfportraiture #selfportrait #fuckbras #freedom #series
a woman with blue hair wearing a cream, sleeveless shirt is sliding a bra strap off of her shoulder, grinning ©LotusCarroll a woman with blue hair wearing a cream, sleeveless shirt is holding a tan colored bra up to the camera with one hand, smiling a woman with blue hair wearing a cream, sleeveless shirt is holding a tan colored bra up to the camera with one hand, eyes closed and other hand held out to the side, wide open mouthed smile of relief and freedom a woman with blue hair wearing a cream, sleeveless shirt is holding a tan colored bra in a sling shot position, as if to fire it off straight at the viewer, with an open mouthed, mischievous smile of laughter
April 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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i bent over to ask them
the secret of happiness,
for, surely, they must know;
they smiled and replied
"we open ourselves up
to whatever will come,
and stick together
until the end."
Close up, black and white image of two tiny white flowers snuggled close together in the grass
April 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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beauty is a construct

#SelfPortraitSunday #Half&Half #ClassicMono
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture #Photography #EastCoastKin
triptych containing 3 black and white headshots of a woman with long hair - the one in the middle has her facing straight on, left is profile facing right, right is profile facing left. Left half of the woman's face is treated with cosmetics and hair is groomed; right half is natural face and hair tucked behind head. It's as if two different women are present, and the idea of what is beautiful is called into question. Beauty is a construct. ©LotusCarroll
April 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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together we rise and soar

#BlueSkyArtShow #Silhouette #EastCoastKin
two people are seen in silhouette standing atop a hill amongst the clouds and flying birds; the sky is warm in gold and orange tones
April 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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when she learned
he did not dream,
she pulled threads
of light from the sky
down into the dark places,
breathed into them,
and, softly humming,
she carefully began
weaving the fantasies
that would dance
into his slumber.

#SelfPortraitSunday #Dreamscapes
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture #EastCoastKin
a dark, grainy, slate-blue/grayish image with a dreamlike quality shows a woman standing in the corner of a dark room, deep in shadow. her arms are bent at the elbows and her hands are cupped in front of her chest, beneath the only source of light in the room - a bright glowing orb, hovering over her palms, that shoots flares out around her. she has long dark hair, flowing down over her chest, and her eyes are closed. her face is serious and still and she is deeply concentrated on her task.
March 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I painted these Easter/Spring postcards yesterday. I think I’ll be spending much more time in my painting cave again.
Looking down onto two painted postcards from above - the one on the top has a field of dandelions as seen from above, and the one on the bottom has a little brown bunny rabbit, sitting next to several dandelions growing in the grass
March 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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for just a moment,
i touched the tender spot
inside me
where you live.

#MarchIntoLandscapes #Eerie #Photography #Scape #EastCoastKin
A moody, deeply dark and reddish sunset in a sky with many dark and grungy clouds. There is a strip of land at the bottom of the image, in silhouette, and a tower off in the distance. Towards the top of the image, the sky is still bright, and glowing, in yellows and greenish blues.
March 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I’m so excited to see you! I’ve… changed… since the last time we saw one another. You don’t have to look so surprised - people change, right? Soon, you will, too.

Don’t worry, it won’t hurt… well, it won't hurt *me*....

#SelfPortraitSunday #TheAnimalWithin
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture #Photography
A monochrome image of a woman with very large eyes and teeth that look like fangs - long and ending in points. With eyes wide and eyebrows raised, long hair almost floating up around and behind her, her mouth is ajar in an open mouthed smile, and she is staring straight ahead at you with *great interest.*
March 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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and so, silently
i float to you -
as I always have
and always will -
on the wings
of a golden dream
that will disappear
when i awake.

#Poetry #BlueskyArtShow #Sunlight
#Photography #Sunrise #EastCoastKin
we're at the ocean, and a gull can be seen in silhouette, flying over the ocean, across a deeply golden, glowing sky streaked with smoky dark clouds that slightly filter the bright orb of sun as it rises above a pier in the background
March 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM