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mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
beauty is still all around
even in the dark
even in the cold

you just have to open your eyes
mind
and heart to it

(echinacea seed head in winter)

#photography #EastCoastKin #naiveteismyforte
seed head of echinacea in winter brown
January 12, 2026 at 3:54 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
cold morning
pink and blue

#photography #EastCoastKin #naiveteismyforte #sunrise
sunrise through the bare trees
January 4, 2026 at 1:57 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
silver eye
peering through twisted limbs
down to the cold dank earth
and my dirty feet

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the moon through bare limbs of winter maple trees
January 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
pink clouds in the fading light. man i'm lucky

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December 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
crocus, those little green shoots, pushing up through the snow, personifications of hope.

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crocus shoots in snow
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
blue sky, clear and cold. first real snow of the year, outlining bare brown branches

#photography #EastCoastKin #naiveteismyforte
over the back fence, a little patch of forest that I get to live near
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
basically the only good reason to endure a Missouri summer.

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cherry tomatoes, ripening on the vine. Missouri summers are terribly hot - but tomatoes love it.
July 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
better light, closer shot of my latest collage on sculpture. This method uses layers of clear acrylic on magazine pictures, then removes the paper in a water bath, and fuses to the surface with heat. Haven't seen this method used much. Know anyone who does it?

#art #papiermache #naiveteismyforte
February 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
this is one of my favorite pictures i ever made. it's the view through the top of a 2006 Chevy Malibu windshield on a rainy day, while I was waiting in my ex-driveway to pick up my kids.

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blue color field, covered in droplets of water.
April 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
polling for my next wall mounted sculpture work.

which one do you like best? These are concept drawings, they will be rendered in papier mâché.

#naiveteismyforte #wip
#EastCoastKin
dancing tribal human interpretation fuscia af dancing tribal human interpretation in mint dancing tribal human interpretation call this one the red one
July 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
mind #scape

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May 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
just a blue sky.

#blueskymonday #EastCoastKin #photography #naiveteismyforte
a blue sky with cottony clouds
May 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
back before the world ended i was working on a series of surreal photos. Basically I took snaps of mundane scenes and then jacked up the levels beyond recognition till they were bright and bold and weird.

maybe you'll dig them.

#photography #surreal #naiveteismyforte
rows of blocks in shades of blue. it's a gigantic sky light, but looks like what the fuck?
April 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
a little city #scape for Friday!

this is the intersection of Cherry and McGee.

#EastCoastKin #photography #naiveteismyforte #urbangaze
intersection in Midtown KC
May 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
one of the common names for this flower is "Black Eyed Susan". That always struck me funny. Like, "Susan, who hurt you? What happened?"

#photography #bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #naiveteismyforte
cheery yellow flowers in a field of green
July 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
I've been the boy with the broken halo
I've been the lawman
and if I've arrived somewhere in between
I can assure you it's quite by luck & accident

that to say this

it ain't over yet
there's more to your story

keep going

#poetry #keepgoing #naiveteismyforte
June 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
older work, a collage named "find it inside yourself"

#collage
#EastCoastKin #naiveteismyforte
collage - so many things, a man with a blowtorch, a whale, a breast cancer screening, a bus - coming right at you, a black mushroom, a fish, a woman, an armadillo paw... there's maybe more
June 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
#poetry

I love you
specifically you
for who you are
today

not some potential you
or some future hope of you
or the you you'll be when you're fixed

I love you

actually you
right now

#EastCoastKin #naiveteismyforte
May 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
can you spot the mistake?

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the mistake a closer look at the mistake.
May 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
current mood. spring has me breathing in hope. it smells like fresh dirt and new grass and hyacinth and outside air in the house. can't wait for tomorrow.

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water droplets on flower petals. pink as fuck.
March 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
I made these short little videos of me talking while working on my sculpture for another platform a while ago.

If you dig a smooth baritone with Bob Ross vibes, give it a listen.

#ASMR #sculpture #art #papiermache #naiveteismyforte
March 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
it's not like brothers and sisters don't fight.

we do.

but we still recognize we are family.

that's the difference when you're in the one tribe.

-mysterious

#poetry #naiveteismyforte #EastCoastKin #OneTribe
August 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
and this is the whole dang thing

"synapse"
acrylic on board

#art #painting #naiveteismyforte
long ass painting, on an easel. shapes reminiscent of nuerons rendered in orange on a dark blue field, filled with dancing human forms
March 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
#WIP

for those of you following along...

1. the finished model
2. the mold
3. impression #1
4. impression #2

#papiermache #sculpture #EastCoastKin #naiveteismyforte
June 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
mysteriousjohnson.bsky.social
the sunflowers are fading, nodding down instead of facing full up to the sun. but that allows for some interesting #angles.

#blueskyartshow #EastCoastKin #photography #bloomscrolling #naiveteismyforte
September 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM