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iPhone 11 Pro Max- Playing with New Camera on Portrait Mode

IPhone 10 had portrait mode but I only used it like a macro lens for flowers.  I purchased the iPhone 11 Pro for the camera. Max was to help me see better. So let’s begin. The first portrait I tried … Continue reading

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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

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Skeleton Sketches-Poetry and the Visual Arts

Sketch by Quinn Clarice Mae for an assignment to imagine a model without skin. What does it feel like to be a skeleton But not know you’re dead? It started at a tea party, my fascination with skeleton’s about town. … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Final Stages of Spring A University Parking Lot & Beyond from an iphone

We couldn’t get into the parking lot.  Here are views from the road.  See how California turns from its short green spring to the long gold of summer.   By the time the gates were open and we made it … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Under a Black Diamond Sun-Poetry from Art

                                                                                … Continue reading

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The Light before Sunset from the iPhone and the Poet

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