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noelwestartist
@noelwestartist.bsky.social
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Hi humans.. I make art and love my daughter.

I've lived through many days, all different.. making me a girl who loves peace, awe, connection and growth.
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Image of dictators through out history who hang enormous picture banners of themselves from government buildings. Superimposed behind a woman stepping forward with commitment to stay focused in her voice of resistance through art or other expression to the takeover of an authoritarian.
August 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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"My cherished beliefs...
the lies I clung to while dissonance swallowed me whole.

Disillusionment...
the gateway drug to new ideas,
new behavior,
new clarity.

I want compassion for all humanity."

She looked me in the eye... and explained.
Line drawing charicature of woman resting her chin on her clasped hands while she explains her thoughts.
July 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Line drawing of girl with glasses looking determined
June 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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What the f*** are these a******* doing?

Chaps on the hill said...
"Hey Mr. powerful, I've got an idea, let's...
ki** the weak.
control everything.
do a little shakedown.
get rich.
launch some guns into space.
be big and beautiful...
we're blessed.
God said so..."
Ink contour line drawing of a man who looks disgusted and shocked. The style is impressionistic and minimalist.
May 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Liberty Enlightening the World...
Inscription - ‘give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses."

Well, apparently France wants The Statue of Liberty back because we no longer hold the values she represents.
Hang colored lithograph image of the Statue of Liberty holding her torch high, a crown made of spiked sun rays holding and inscribed tablet. Set the top an island mound in the New York Harbor. Mini boats surround her.
March 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Columbia... Goddess of Liberty, a personification of America since 1730 (Wikipedia)... She's inspired hundreds of artists for centuries.

Columbia (a woman representing the United States) turns members of the U.S. Senate over her knee and spanks them. (1903)
William H. Walker (American, 1871-1938)
Artists cartoon rendition of a woman representing the United States wearing a toga and a headpiece with her name, Columbia engraved in it. She is surrounded by senators depicted as men children and one of the senators she has taken over her knee and is spanking him with a stick. (1903) William Henry Walker (American, 1871-1938)
March 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Evil, destruction, and hate will not win. We are humanity and we stand with Ukraine.

Maria Prymachenko, Our Army, Our Protectors (1978). © Prymachenko Family Foundation
Painting by Maria Prymachenko, Our Army, Our Protectors (1978). © Prymachenko Family Foundation. The painting depicts a colorful array of mythical yellow birds flying towards a content face circled with flowers. Below that is a row of stylistic sunflowers. In the foreground are individuals holding hands facing each other as if to dance with unison in order. It's an uplifting piece of hope.
March 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The important work of a political cartoonist can never be underestimated. Brilliant! A picture is worth a thousand words.
Cartoon depicting a very pregnant woman and a small child standing in the rain and a white older gentleman who is holding a large black umbrella which is only protecting himself and the woman's protruding stomach from the downpour
January 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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This is what he saluting.

"While other photo-journalists took shots of the 1937 Kentucky floodwaters,
Bourke-White captured a much drier, ironic image of human suffering."

"History too horribly vivid for the pages of Life--one (of several, actually) for the archives."

Art Now and Then blogspot
image Margaret Bourke-White sent to Life Magazine, her employer, of truckloads of dead bodies on their way to mass graves. As devastating as the hundreds of emaciated, near-naked human bodies of the living might be (images Life Magazine published), her employer, Life magazine, drew the line at publishing similar images she sent them of truckloads of dead bodies on their way to mass graves.
January 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Post election coping strategy...

Be yourself and talk to people like they matter.

~ collaborative drawing, Chloe and Noel
Semi abstract personified pen and ink drawing. The viewer really determines what they see and what the drawing is. It is an original drawing collaboratively created by a child and an adult.
December 2, 2024 at 5:43 AM
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Image from the classic movie The wizard of Oz. The scene depicts the moment when Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal the great wizard is just a short old man moving a bunch of levers.
November 27, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Close up of pet adult cat. The cat is a warm shade of gray with fluffy long hair. He is laying on a similarity colored taupe fluffy blanket.
November 24, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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This whole bathroom thing is juvenile. My daughter is 19 and disabled and has to have one of her parents with her every time she goes to the bathroom. So she's with her father she has to go into the men's bathroom. Nancy Mace stop being ridiculous.
Sign outside of a public bathroom in a restaurant with multiple universal design type icons representing a diverse array of humans. Pictured is a woman, a mix of a woman and a man, a man, a person in a wheelchair, a baby, an alien, a person with two heads, and a superhero holding a shield. Then it stays... "Whatever" in all caps and a subheading that says... "just wash your hands"
November 22, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Jose, the tile guy,
brought me an old gold mirror
70's ... plastic.

It spoke to me...

"let something,
soul soothing,
become...

From the less than...
nourishing."
Woman in soft focus looks into mirror that has been artistically repainted. Ornate frame with decorative scrolls and flowers has been painted purple showing its depth and highlights with orange accents. Mirror is hanging on a blue plaster wall.
November 12, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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November 11, 2024 at 12:09 AM