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The mother of an astute philosophical thinker once described life as "a box of chocolates". She's right, or course, as most mothers are. When you work on paper, you never know what you're going to get.

Grayson Perry says that your mistakes are your style. Given the amount of mistakes I'm guilty of, I hope it's true.

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/make-mistakes

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collage with distressed typography that says "make mistakes"

...won't let you down...

By Special request, art inspired by the song “Freedom ‘90” by George Michael

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/all-this-time

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collage with distressed typography that says "won't le t you down"

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Today, February 2, at 7:20 and 30 seconds in the morning, Pittsburgh weatherman Phil Connors watches as a groundhog named "Punxsutawney Phil" sees his own shadow, foretelling 6 more weeks of winter (Groundhog Day, 1993)

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Bill Murray, here a young man, though with a sour expression, is holding a Channel 9 news mic in front of a tree stump. He’s wearing a coat, scarf, and gloves, and is reporting on a busy event.

Two men in top hats, wearing carnations in their lapels, reading from a scroll. The subtitle reads, “This February 2nd, at 7:20 and 30 seconds, Punxsutawney Phil, the seer of seers, prognosticator of prognosticators, emerged reluctantly but alertly in Punxsutawney, PA and stated in groundhog-ese, "I definitely see a shadow.””

There is no such thing as scarcity when it comes to art. When it comes to ideas. When it comes to creativity. “Something more will arise for later,” Dillard reminds us, “something better.” Something beyond anything you could have ever imagined or dreamed…

duanetoops.substack.com/p/at-the-edge

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collage of magazine paper with distressed typography that says "feed the river"

One of my favorite weekly rituals is making a piece of art for one of Carolyn Jones' poems. I did a lot of experimenting with this one. Tried a lot of things I don’t do normally. I think I may have been too ambitious. It didn't come out nearly as well as I wanted it to. But I enjoyed trying some things out and it was fun to do.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-141244253

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torm paper collage with distressed typography that says "empty promises"

Roy Peter Clark says that it's best "to think of marginalia as a genre." Maybe it's best to think of it as medium, too. Everything I make takes place in the margins. At the edge of something beyond me, at the periphery of something else. Something that pushes me towards...something. That's where it all happens for me...

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/at-the-edge

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collage of grungey paper with distressed typography that says "at the edge"

It doesn't take much, it's true. Sometimes a little is all you need. A little time. A little graciousness. Ten breaths, one after another. A little art. A little music. A few small letters stacked into ten good words: You're ok. You're ok. I promise you, you will be.

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/ten-pages

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collage of torn paper with distressed typography that says "you're ok"

"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world." - Susan Sontag

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Collage of vintage paper with distressed typography that says "love words"

...show me your knuckles...

(Art inspired by the song "Knuckles" by The Snuts)

https://youtu.be/p3wnvQyNfPE?si=9QgCPfnN-enN3rI7

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Collage of painted paper with typography that says "show me"

The universal exists in the particular. The thing that you thought was so specific to you is the thread that connects you to everything. Lean into your weird. Own what makes you different, what makes you ‘you’. That's the texture of our shared humanity...

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"The only way to reach another person at any depth is to move toward what is deepest in yourself." (E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born)

@NeanderthalPride thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

Art made to accompany a poem by Carolyn Jones...

https://wordblooms.substack.com/p/damage-done

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Collage of torn paper with typography that says "damage done"

"There are times when ten pages of some book fall under your eye just at the moment when your very life...depends on your reading those ten pages", Thomas Merton says. When a sequence of sentences get printed that say every thought, every feeling, that you've been trying desperately to…

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/ten-pages

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A collage of distressed paper with typography that says "ten pages"

...I think I'm losing touch...

(Art inspired by the song "If you want it" by the Shambolics)

https://youtu.be/ifoJxXAcW_o?si=HMChasc-m4e5XR3z

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Mixed media collage with typography that says "losing touch"

We "assemble a life from the usable fragments", Lewis Hyde says. Sacred relics of the wreckage, gathered and connected. We experience the world as wholeness when all our pieces have a space…

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/bowerbirds

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