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Boston based artist. Occasional poet. Chronic illness warrior. Noisy & nervous. Empathic & odd. Drawn to shiny little objects, like a crow. Renowned recluse. Afraid of almost everything. World’s worst ukulele player.

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wee little seamstress
length of fabric, colored thread
tiny stitches sewn.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry

Spools of thread on an old fabric tag. Mixed media.

#mixedmedia #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart
Three old wooden spools of black thread, painted on a crumpled tag from a bolt of fabric. Mixed media (paint, pastel, india ink, pencil).
August 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Understand me.
I'm not like an ordinary world.
I have my madness,
I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Charles Bukowski

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Seated Angel (detail). Oil on wood, begun 1899, completed 1921. Photo taken Hartford, Connecticut, May 2018.
Oil painting of a serious young woman, with rosy cheeks and blue eyes, in a ruffled white dress. She has a golden halo and large wings sprouting from her shoulder blades.
August 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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People take pictures of the summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to prove that it really existed.

Ray Davies

#porch #porchswing #summer #dancing #thekinks
A woman lays on a porch swing in a white summer dress, one leg and booted foot dangling down to push the swing. The same woman’s legs and booted feet, seen dancing in close-up on the same porch, empty swing in the background.
August 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I want to find myself lost here (again). Dizzy with looking up, and dancing, always dancing, among the trees.

Taken by me, in a forest somewhere in New England.
Standing beneath enormously tall pines, I took a photo looking straight up at them; the sky peeking from between their branches.
July 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart!

Charlotte Brönte

Spool of thread on an old fabric tag. Mixed media.

#mixedmedia #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart
An old wooden spool of black thread, painted on a crumpled tag from a bolt of fabric. Mixed media (paint, pastel, india ink, pencil).
July 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Will it ever be winter and cold again? My god, I hate summer.

Sketch of pears in the late afternoon sun. A quick and scribbly moleskine study of three pears in soft pastel + graphite.

#stilllife #study #fruit #pears #pastel #graphite #mixedmedia #moleskine #sketchbook #sketch #womensart #bskyart
A pastel and graphite sketchbook study of three fat red pears. They’re vividly colored and painted in a very loose, scribbly manner. The photo is taken at an awkward and low angle to the page and the late afternoon sun dapples the far end of the photo.
July 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Sketchbook study of an eye. Mixed media (watercolor, graphite, ink).

#painting #mixedmedia #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart
Detail of a green and amber eye, looking directly at the viewer. Light is reflected in the vividly colored iris. The painting is mixed media: watercolor, graphite and ink.
July 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I used to feel like the t-rex,
but now I’m just the frightened deer.

Brimfield, Massachusetts.

#bwphotography #brimfieldantiques #trex
A very realistic giant plastic t-rex, mouth open and teeth bared, hovers over two delicate white plastic deer at Brimfield Antiques Fair.
July 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Emily Dickinson

Moleskine painting of Bram (detail). Mixed media.

#dog #chihuahua #portrait #mixedmedia #moleskine #sketchbook #womensart #oskyart
Mixed media painting of a chihuahua, portraying a close up of half his face and chest. Pops of vivid blues, greens and neon pinks highlight the painting. The little dog stares at his audience, head tilted up and nose lifted high.
July 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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you may think I’m strong,
but my appearance deceives.
in truth I’m fragile.

Me, today.

Photo of a dandelion, seed head ready to take flight on a summer afternoon, taken in my back yard somewhere in Massachusetts.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #fragile #dandelion #seedhead #blowball #summer
Sharply focused close up of a single dandelion seed head ready to blow away; delicate, fluffy and white. The green of a lawn, along with some large bushes and trees, blurs the background.
June 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I am a victim of introspection.

Sylvia Plath

Self portrait in an old Jane Eyre Cliff's Notes.

#portrait #selfportrait #graphite #pencil #artbook #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart
Pencil self-portrait of the artist gazing off toward’s the viewer’s left. She looks pensive and a little sad. The text of the book that this was drawn in is fully visible behind and through the portrait.
June 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

Sketchbook portrait. Mixed media.

#portrait #mixedmedia #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart
Close up portrait of a woman’s face. She has full lips, a strong stare and a defiant tilt of her chin. This pencil and charcoal portrait is splattered with color and light, predominantly in blues and pinks.
June 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Rescued dog. Rescued human. Quincy Bell (detail). Mixed media in a moleskine.

#dog #blacklab #labmix #portrait #mixedmedia #moleskine #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart
Mixed media (predominantly acrylic paint and ink) painting of a black lab mix rescued by our family. Her head is tilted up, her eyes are focused on the viewer and she wears a pale pink collar. Liquid brown eyes and a boopable nose.
May 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

Emily Brontë

#georgeharrison #thebeatles #emilybronte
George Harrison looks intensely and directly into the camera, vaguely amused by what he sees.
May 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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birds in my chimney,
fluttering wings and hushed songs
tickle the still night.

midnight lullaby.

Titmouse (detail), mixed media. Painted in an empty old ledger.

#bird #titmouse #ephemeralart #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart #haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #onelinepoem
Painting of a chubby blue-gray titmouse in profile, with a close-up on his little face. His tuft pokes up proudly from his head and he has a glint in his tiny eye.
May 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Svetlaniy. Mixed media on paper.

#portrait #charcoal #graphite #pastel #mixedmedia #sketchbook #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart
Graphite and charcoal portrait of a woman. Her head is shaved and she looks intently at the viewer with a very serious expression. Drawn through the image are three fat horizontal aqua stripes that become bright red where they meet the model’s face and neck.
May 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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my heart is fragile,
she has a wildflower soul.
please be kind to her.

Fast and scribbly flower doodle in a moleskine. Pencil + a couple of soft pastels.

#sketch #pastel #softpastel #flower #wildflower #moleskine #womensart #bskyart #haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry
A hasty little sketch of the face of a wildflower drawn over a page of pencil doodles and scribbly lines. The petals are large and hot pink, lighter at their tips and a deeper purple near the center of the flower. The pistil, or center of the flower, is a vivid yellow with a soft spring green in the very center.
May 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Purple coneflower study (detail), watercolor + ink.

#watercolor #flower #coneflower #womensart #bskyart
A pink petaled flower with a large brown seed head stands against a blue-green background. The photo is a detail of one small section of a larger painting of the garden.
May 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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There’s a certain poetry in even the most mundane of things.

Late afternoon in the studio. Moleskine study of two cups. Soft pastel + charcoal.

#stilllife #pastel #softpastel #charcoal #coffee #coffeecups #moleskine #womensart #bskyart
Two fat, brightly colored coffee cups, one stacked on top of the other. Handles facing left, light bouncing off their shiny porcelain surfaces.
April 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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you turned your face
towards the light,
and I caught your smile
when you weren’t
looking, and I made it last
for always.

David in the sun. Pastel + charcoal on toned paper.

#portrait #pastel #womensart #bskyart #smallpoetry #micropoetry|
Pastel portrait of a man’s head and shoulders. Only his face is painted in vivid colors, the rest is merely loose line drawing in black and white. His shoulders face forward but his face is turned to the right, head tilted up ever so slightly towards the sunlight, eyes closed and a small smile of contentment on his face.
April 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Frightened. Mixed media on 1892 book page. One of four in a series.

#portrait #mixedmedia #grayscale #ephemera #ephemeralart #foundmaterialsart
#worksonpaper #bskyart
Tiny grayscale pastel of a nude woman, with the view of her back from behind her. She sits with her knees draw up to her torso, her right arm reaching skyward, her head tilted to her left. The little painting is on a yellowed page torn from a 19th century book, the printed text visible around the portrait.
April 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I found this wee girl behind my house and after taking her photo I gently buried her beneath the apple tree by our kitchen door. Her mate called for her for many days, often on a branch just above her little grave, sounding increasingly desperate before he understood his loss and quietly flew away.
A dead female cardinal, with an exceptionally bright orange beak and wing feathers, lies dead on the worn wood of an old porch.
March 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Big P
little p
What begins with P?

Pinky purple pencil portrait,
P P P.

#portrait #mixedmedia #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart
Pinkish purple sketchbook portrait of a young woman’s head and shoulders. Her body is facing to the right while her head is turned toward the viewer. Her hair is loosely pulled back and her expression is serious; her gaze intense.
March 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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you think I never
pay attention, but I see
you, despite the noise

Me, today.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry

Sketchbook study of an eye. Grayscale. Mixed media.

#painting #mixedmedia #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart
Detailed study of a right eye and eyebrow, looking intently out of a sketchbook page. The small painting is mixed media and done in grayscale.
March 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Shelley

Sketchbook portrait. Mixed media.

#portrait #mixedmedia #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart
Graphite and charcoal portrait of a woman’s face in extreme close-up, with her lips parted and eyes gazing upwards. She’s been splashed with crimson watercolor pigment.
March 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM