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Melaelettrica
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Tired of living in interesting times.

Collage art and assorted debris.

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"Camelia Sinensis," digital collage.

#cameliasinensis #teaart #teacollage #digitalcollage #collagebywomen #surrealcollage #womensart #collageoftheday #collage #art #collageart #collageartist #ArtYear #collagework #blueskycollage #surrealart #tea #womeninart #tidesouttuesday
Digital collage originally created for Collactober on Instagram. The picture is divided diagonally into two parts. On the left we have a simple red background with the Chinese character for "tea" in black. The right section features a traditional Chinese pattern in red and gold, which serves as a backdrop for a black lacquered cup full of green tea, with a traditional red-sailed Chinese junk riding the green waves. Black frame.
October 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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"Sea Heart," digital collage.

Soundtrack: Robert Wyatt - Sea Song
#blueskymonday #artyear #seaheart #underthesea #collageartist #blueart #seaart #seacollage #artbywomen #thecollagecommunity #collagebywomen #art #collage #womeinart #fishart #porthole #seacreatures #surrealistart #surrealart #surreal
Digital collage, originally created for Collactober on Instagram, depicting a young blue-skinned woman standing underwater with her hands on top of her head. She has a porthole in her chest, at heart level, with golden-green fish swimming in and out. Seaweed pattern in the background.
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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"Leo, Virgo Rising," digital collage.

#zodiac #ArtYear #caturday #cats #leo #virgo #bigcats #virgorising #suninleo #zodiacart #zodiacsigns #surrealcollage #collagebywomen #womeninart #artbywomen #surrealart #thecollagecommunity #digitalcollage #digitalart #art #collage #blueskyartshow #glow
Digital collage, originally created for #Collactober on Instagram, featuring my two Zodiac signs, Leo and Virgo, overshadowed by a glowing Sun and Earth and by the Zodiac circle. The symbols for Leo and Virgo appear, in yellow and black, in opposite corners of the picture. Black frame with a yellow star pattern.
October 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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"Evening On An Alien Planet," digital collage.

Soundtrack: David Bowie - ☆

#BlueSkyMonday #31daysofhalloween #ArtYear #surrealcollage #surrealart #scificollage #scifiart #eerieart #sciencefictionart #sciencefictioncollage #womeninart #collagebywomen #art #collage #blueart #digitalcollage
Digital collage, originally created for Paris Collage Collective's creative challenge, depicting a solitary astronaut sitting in a gnarly tree in a blue-purple alien forest, surrounded by a swarm of blue butterflies. Their helmet is also full of butterflies, pointing to the fact they're probably not there. Original photo by Alex Shuper.
October 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Many happy returns to Russell Mael, 77 years young today. Original photo by Jules Annan/Backgrid. @sparksofficial.bsky.social

#artyear #art #collage #sparksfanart #russellmael #sparksofficial #digitalcollage #surrealcollage #butterflycollage #butterflyart #butterflies #digitalart #surrealart
Digital collage featuring Sparks' Russell Mael waring a butterfly-decorated tan jacket and blue glasses. The pink and blue butterflies appear to detach from the jacket and fly around him in concentric circles.
October 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Go wash your hands somewhere else, human. #Caturday #BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #photography #photohour #catphotography #petphotography #catsofbluesky #catphotos #petphotos
My cousin's cats Tequila (black) and Leo (ginger) taking over the bathroom and relaxing in the washbasins.
October 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"Fire Spell," digital collage.

Soundtrack - Boards of Canada - Farewell Fire

#artyear #forestfriday #treescape #witchart #witchartwork #fireart #firecollage #witchyart #eerieart #juliettegreco #juliettegréco #collagebywomen #flameart #firespell #womeninart #artbywomen #scape #landscape
Digital collage, originally created for The Tuesday Collective' weekly art challenge on Instagram (prompt: Witchy) featuring a pale, black-dressed young woman (Juliette Gréco) with long black hair and a pale haunting face, standing in the middle of a forest, calling forth the flames. The trees behind her are on fire and the night sky is turning orange. Sparks surround her, dancing around her.
October 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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And with Sparkstember now over, here's my #calendarclub entry for October. @bsky.art

#artyear #sparksofficial #russellmael #sparksfanart #surrealcollage #surrealart #dancegoddammit #pierrotlunaire #pierrot #blackandwhite #blackandwhiteart #art #collage #womeninart #artbywomen #digitalart
The October page for my Sparks calendar, featuring one of my digital collage pieces. The collage features Russell Mael in the classic black and white Pierrot costume with a ruched collar, white face and black mascara tears rolling down his cheek, standing in the middle of a black and white dancefloor with a solitary disco ball hanging from the ceiling. I like to think that if the Black Lodge had a dancefloor, it might look somewhat like this.
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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#Sparkstember day 30, Do Things Your Own Way. "Elizabethan Pastiche," digital collage. @sparksofficial.bsky.social Here's our two as Elizabethan courtiers. As usual, this has been great fun. Here's to next year!
#sparkstember2025 #sparksfanart #elizabethancourt #sparklyart #womeninart #artyear #art
Digital collage, inspired by Sparkstember's day 30 prompt "Do Things Your Own Way," picturing Ron (left) and Russell (right) Mael as Elizabethan courtiers, wearing period clothing and standing in a room decorated in several shades of brown and gold. Golden walls, dark gold and brown tapestry, yellow and dark brown floor and yellow fireplace.
September 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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#Sparkstember day 29, Mad! "A Long Red Light," digital collage. One of my favourites out of the album. @sparksofficial.bsky.social

#artyear #alongredlight #sparksmad #sparkstember2025 #ronandrussellmael #surrealcollage #womeninart #sparksfanart #ronmael #russelmael #minimalmonday #minimalism #art
Digital collage, based on the original photo by Munachi Osegbu and inspired by Sparks' song "A Log Red Light," featuring Ron and Russell Mael, dressed in black and with their figures highlighted by a red border throughout, standing underneath a mysterious red star. Black background and red frame to reiterate the two-colour theme.
September 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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#Sparkstember day 28, "The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte". "We Go Dancing," digital collage.

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#sparkstember2025 #thegirliscryinginherlatte #wegodancing #russellmael #surrealcollage #sparksfanart #collageartistoninstagram #artyear #artbywomen #womeninart #surrealart #art
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks' song "We Go Dancing" and Communist propaganda art, featuring Russell Mael and a female North Korean soldier engaging in a fictional military parade. Both figures are reproduced three times, for effect and to highlight the depersonalising nature of the event. Jet planes are featured in the background, performing aerial acrobatics.
September 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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#Sparkstember day 27, The Sparks Cinematic Universe. "Confusion," digital collage.

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#jacquestati #ronandrussellmael #sparkstember2025 #thesparkscinematicuniverse #sparksfanart #surrealart #russellmael #ronmael #surrealcollage #art #collage #artyear #artbywomen
Digital collage inspired by "Confusion", the Jacques Tati film, set in a media-obsessed, futuristic Paris, that was supposed to star the Mael brothers but unfortunately never came about. The image features Ron and Russell in their early/mid 70s persona, standing in front of a futuristic building. A poster for Tati's "Mon Oncle" is visible in the bottom left corner. A radio wave spiral hovers ominously in the sky.
September 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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#Sparkstember day 26, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip. "The Existential Threat," digital collage.

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#asteadydripdripdrip #theexistentialthreat #sparkstember2025 #sparksfanart #eerieart #ronmael #surrealcollage #surrealart #sparksofficial #womeninart #artbywomen #art #collage
Collage, inspired by Sparks' song "The Existential Threat," featuring Ron Mael wandering through a netherworld of dark shadows and purple mists. Over his head, an ominous sky vortex casts a ray of purple light over the scene.
September 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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#Sparkstember day 25, Hippopotamus. "Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me), digital collage.

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#sparkstember2025 #edithpiafsaiditbetterthanme #sparksfanart #iregreteverything #ronmael #digitalcollageart #womeninart #sparksofficial #collage #art #digitalart #artbywomen
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks' song "Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me), featuring Ron Mael holding an autumn skeleton leaf in his hand against a red/black backdrop and under a canopy of yellow and orange autumn leaves. The caption in the bottom right corner reads "Live Fast And Die Young... Too Late for That".
September 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Sparkstember day 24, FFS. "The Man Without a Tan, or Cologne Is Burning," digital collage inspired by the Cologne heatwave.

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#themanwithoutatan #cologneheatwave #sparkstember2025 #FFSband #sparksfanart #fuckthesun #ronmael #sparkstember #digitalcollage #art #collage
Digital collage, inspired by FFS' song "The Man Without a Tan," featuring Ron Mael, wearing a black outfit and a black cap with the "Fuck The Sun" slogan imprinted on it and holding an open black umbrella. In the background you can see the Cologne skyline with the famous cathedral, and a yellow sky with a merciless, scorching sun.
September 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Sparkstember day 23, "Two Hands, One Mouth". "Two Hands, One Mouth" and "Absinthe Drinkers," digital collages.
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#artyear #sparksofficial #twohandsonemouth #russelmael #sparkstember2025 #sparksfanart #decadentart #ronmael #absinthe #surrealart #art #collage #digitalcollage
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks album "Two Hands, One Mouth," featuring Russell Mael in a black costume with a white ruffle collar on an etched golden background. Digital collage, inspired by Sparks album "Two Hands, One Mouth," reimagining Ron and Russell Mael as absinthe drinkers with glasses in their hands. Black and green smoky background.
September 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Sparkstember day 22, The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman. "Mr Bergman, How Are You?", digital collage.
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#artyear #art #collage #sparkstember #theseductionofingmarbergman #sparkstember2025 #russellmael #sparksfanart #digitalcollage #hollywoodglitz #sparksofficial #womeninart
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks' song "Mr Bergman, How Are You?" featuring Russell Mael as Gerald Geoffrey Weiss, the evil Hollywood executive behind Bergman's kidnapping in Sparks' musical "The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman". Gerald, wearing a shiny lamé suite, is portrayed with a luxury red sports car and a glitzy Hollywood vamp. Shiny gold background and metal sun.
September 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Sparkstember day 21, Exotic Creatures Of The Deep.
"The Director Never Yelled 'Cut'", digital collage. Featuring Messrs Ron and Russell Mael and Ms Agnès Varda.

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#art #exoticcreaturesofthedeep #sparkstember2025 #agnèsvarda #agnesvarda #sparksfanart #ronmael #russellmael
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks' song "The Director Never Yelled 'Cut'," featuring Ron and Russell Mael with director Agnès Varda.
September 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Sparkstember day 20, Hello Young Lovers. "There's No Such Thing As Aliens... Is There?". Digital collage.
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#artyear #helloyounglovers #theresnosuchthingasaliens #sparkstember2025 #sparksfanart #ronandrussellmael #ronmael #russellmael #sciencefictionart #ufoalert #scifiart
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks' song "There's No Such Thing As Aliens," depicting Ron and Russell Mael being chased along the street of an unknown metropolis by a giant alien woman emitting laser beams from her eyes. The usual disclaimer applies: "No Maels were harmed in the making of this collage."
September 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Sparkstember day 19, Lil' Beethoven. "My Baby's Taking Me Home," digital collage.

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#sparkstember2025 #artyear #art #collage #lilbeethoven #sparksfanart #mybabystakingmehome #ronmael #scifiart #scificollage #ufoart #ufocollage #sparksofficial
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks' song "My Baby's Taking Me Home," featuring Ron Mael, laden with various pieces of luggage, being beamed aboard a classic 1950s UFO. The background features a circular, concentric rainbow.
September 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Sparkstember day 18 - Balls. "Scheherazade," digital collage.

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#art #collage #surrealart #sparkstember #scheherazade #sparkstember2025 #sparksofficial #surrealart #sparksfanart #russellmael #thearabiannights #artbywomen #womeninart #artyear #magiclamp #genielamp
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks' song "Scheherazade", featuring Russell Mael as a genie, rushing forth from a golden magic lamp. The black and blue background features a jewelled woman's mask dissolving into a paisley pattern. In the top part of the picture, a jewel-hued humming bird takes flight.
September 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Sparkstember day 17, Plagiarism. "Heaven and Hell," digital diptych. @sparksofficial.bsky.social
#sparkstember2025 #thenumberonesonginheaven #heavenandhell #sparksfanart #surrealart #ronmael #russellmael #sparkstember #art #collage #digitalcollage #artbywomen #womeninart #heavenart #hellart
Digital collage, inspired by the "Plagiarism" version of Sparks' The No 1 Song in Heaven, featuring Russell Mael as an angel, dressed in a white tunic, white rays of light surrounding his head, against the backdrop of a swarm of white butterflies. Digital collage, inspired by the "Plagiarism" version of Sparks' The No 1 Song in Heaven, featuring Ron Mael as a demon, dressed in black, staring in the distance with a stern expression on his face. Red/black background with tiny fire sparks.
September 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins. "Let's Go Surfing, or Landlady Turn Up the Heat!"
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#artyear #sparkstember2025 #letsgosurfing #ronandrussellmael #gratuitoussaxandsenselessviolins #victoriangloom #sparksfanart #sparkstember #collage #art #digitalart #diitalcollage
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks' song "Let's Go Surfing", depicting the Maels, back in the early 70s, in their cold, Victorian basement flat in London, dreaming of surfing and the warm California weather.
September 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Sparkstember day 15, Interior Design. "A Walk Down Memory Lane," digital collage.
"They say in ten million years that the sun'll burn out..."

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#artyear #art #collage #sparkstember2025 #awalkdownmemorylane #ronmael #apocalypticart #digitalart #sparkstember #sparksfanart
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks' song "A Walk Down Memory Lane, depicting a girl sitting by the sea at the very end of days, a beer in her hand, looking at a huge dying sun in a gloomy black and red sky. In the foreground, a suitably sombre Ron Mael provides the soundtrack with his guitar.
September 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Sparkstember day 14, Music That You Can Dance To. "Change," digital collage.

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#artyear #art #collage #musicthatyoucandanceto #sparkschange #sparkstember2025 #russellmael #digitalcollage #sparksfanart #sparkstember
Digital collage, inspired by Sparks' song "Change," depicting Russell Mael basking in the light against the backdrop of a golden sun and blue sky.
September 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM