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Articles, Poetry, U-turns, Writing
Category Archives: Observation
iPhone 11 Pro Portrait Mode in the Garden
I decided to use the same plant to show the different portrait mode settings and how each one can be used to highlight a plant in different ways. So either this geranium feels very loved at being photographed and talked … Continue reading
Posted in iPhone 11 pro, iphoneography, Observation, Photography
Tagged flowers, geraniums, images, iPhone 11 pro, iPhone 11 Pro portrait mode, iphoneography, nature, photography, plant portraits, plant portraits in mono, taking photographs with decreased vision, vision loss, world of flowers
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In the Air of My Mind-Art and Poetry
Florentine Falcon a screen print on etching paper by femmefatale_quinn (you can find her on Instagram) In the Air of my Mind between waking and sleeping a world waits to be seen a cave of light a place between … Continue reading
Posted in art, Graphic Art, Imagination, Observation, Poetry, poetry and art, Visual Art, Writing
Tagged Art school, cobras, dreams in poetry, etching paper, falcons, greens, images, Poetry, poetry on art, reds, screen print, snakes and falcons, writing journal
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Morphine and Fentanyl-A Chemical Concussion
September 10, 2019 I disappeared for awhile. I’d been in a rough patch health wise. One night I was curled on bathroom floor in pain too weak to move, my husband called 911 and an ambulance arrived. My husband … Continue reading
Shadow Selfie as Self Realization Art
In a picture of the black and white lines of a playground, I find myself an alien being with angled arms, tilted head And strangely straight legs. Where is the crooked woman I see in the mirror? Yes, arms and … Continue reading
Posted in art, Graphic Art, Imagination, iphoneography, Observation, Photography, Poetry, poetry and art, trees, U-Turns, Uncategorized, Visual Art
Tagged composition of photographs, growth, images, Imagination, inner wisdom, life paths, nature, Observation, Poetry, reflecting, transformation, trees, walks, Writing Poetry
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The Artist-Poetry and the Visual Arts
Selfie by Quinn Clarice Mae DeRuiter The Artist I walked behind the old city at twilight. There, a wood called to me. Entering it wrapped me in a twilight mystery. Eyes, I felt them just there behind a wall topped … Continue reading
Posted in art, Graphic Art, Imagination, meditation, Observation, Photography, Poetry, poetry and art, trees, Uncategorized, Urban Scenes, Visual Art, Writing
Tagged art and poetry, artistic selfie, Florence, images, nature, photography, Poetry, school abroad, selfie, sunset and poetry, travel
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Woman on the Wall-Poetry & the Visual Arts
from a collage in soft pastels and pen by Quinn Clarice Mae DeRuiter The Woman on the Wall carries stories hidden behind her closed eyes. Her vibrant red lips sealed shut, a story speaks in a blue feather. Its … Continue reading
Posted in art, Graphic Art, Imagination, Observation, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged art as expression, art student, collage, images, pastels & pen, Poetry, portrait in art
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Stages of Spring from a University Parking Lot
March in Bay Area California-the grass is new green. The trees think flowers. At twilight trees lengthen their shadows. Here and there the basic shapes of silvertone instead of color. Later the trees in full bloom catch some … Continue reading
Posted in iphoneography, Observation, trees, Uncategorized, Urban Scenes
Tagged flowers, nature, parking lots, photography, spring
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Under a Black Diamond Sun-Poetry from Art
Posted in Imagination, Observation, Poetry, Uncategorized, Visual Art
Tagged images, love, marriage, Poetry, Visual Art
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Through the Window
I exercise in front of our west facing windows. Through one window a pair of oak trees stand on top of a hill. The trees say I must speak for them. When California burned and smoked the air, I … Continue reading
Posted in Observation, Photography, Poetry, trees, Uncategorized
Tagged images, nature, photography, Poetry
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Dying Green-The beginning of an irreverent series on growing old
Dying Green Should be a serious event. Unexpectedly, It isn’t Yesterday we bought a plot For my spouse Right next to me On a hill overlooking A meadow shouting green And a forest singing wind. This morning he says, “You … Continue reading
Posted in Imagination, Observation, Poetry, Trees and Meadows, U-Turns, Uncategorized
Tagged humor, old age, Poetry
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