Heigh-Ho Silver -

"The Silver Medallion"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... a medal glitters but it also casts a shadow ..."
- Winston Churchill

Do you see what I see?

"Eadweard Muybridge Inkblot"
manipulated digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... I am going to make a name for myself, if I fail, you will never hear of me again ..."
- Eadweard Muybridge

NEW from the Reinventing the Wheel Series -

"Reinventing the Wheel XI"
manipulated digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... the guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot; the guy who invented the other three, was a genius ..."
- Sid Caeser

Illustration Friday: Entangled -

"Entangled"
manipulated fractal flame & digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... empty handed I entered the world
barefoot I leave it;
my coming, my going -
two simple happenings
that got entangled ..."
- Kozan Ichikyo

Thursday Challenge: Energy -

"1701"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
- click on image to view full size -

"... there is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day ..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gone fishin' -

"Throwing the Nets"
digitally manipulated fractal flame & digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... may the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it ..."
- an old Irish Blessing

Camera malfunction -

"Overexposed"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... you don't take a photograph; you ask, quietly, to borrow it ..."
- Unknown

NEW from The Selfportrait Series -

"Selfportrait of the Artist Swingin' for the Fences"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball ..."
- Woody Held

Outside my back door -

"Wild Lettuce"
digitally manipulated fractal flame collage by Mick Mather

"... lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it ..." - Charles Dudley warner

Blow wind, blow wind -

"Mapping the Wind"
manipulated digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... a wind has blown the rain away
and blown the sky away
and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand;
i think i too have known
autumn too long ..."
- e. e. cummings

Illustration Friday: Music -

"An Harmonica"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the harmonica is the mother of the band ..."
- Otis Spann

Thursday Challenge: Music -

"Singing Waters and Grass"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... the babbling, burbling, trilling old runnel,
backing reeds and grass and rye and yarrow,
earth song leading wind song in harmony,
warbling, whistling pedicels of greenery ..."
- Mick Mather

Say cheese -

"Her School Picture"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... true terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country ..." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Satellite view -

"The Archaeologist's Dig"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
- original photograph by John M. Mora -
"... can you see anything? ... "
- Lord Carnarvan

Cloud catcher -

"A Gentle Slope"
manipulated digital photograph & digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... there is something in October
sets the gypsy blood astir,
we must rise and follow her;
when from every hill of flame,
she calls and calls
each vagabond by name ..."
- William Bliss Carman

NEW from The Selfportrait Series -

"Selfportrait of the Artist In Ruins"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... Tully was not so eloquent as thou,
thou nameless column with the buried base ..."
- Lord Byron

Please take note -

"Post-It Note Inventor's Conference Room"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the world will little note
nor long remember
what we say here ..."
- Abraham Lincoln

Illustration Friday: Unbalanced -

"Declining City of an Idealist"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos ..." - William Irwin Thompson

Thursday Challenge: Youth -

"Cousins Stacking Stone"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... when I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on ..." - Doris Roberts

Over, under or around -

"Engineering Applied to a Topographic Feature"
manipulated digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems ..." - Scott Adams

Aweigh the anchor -

"A Boatwright's Vision with Blueprints"
manipulated digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... a lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always tell them 'How to Build a Boat' ..." - Stephen Wright

NEW from The Selfportrait Series -

"Selfportrait of the Artist as a Billboard"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... I think that I shall never see,
a billboard lovely as a tree,
perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all ..."
- Ogden Nash

Middle of autumn -

"Talking With the Wind and Trees"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... if you reveal your secrets to the wind
you should not blame the wind
for revealing them to the trees ..."
- Kahlil Gibran

Last man standing -

"Reaching for the Sky"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... canst thou prophesy, thou little tree,
what the glory of thy boughs shall be? ..."
- Lucy Larcom

Illustration Friday: Blur -

"Manuscript for an Autobiography"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... when viewed from afar
it appears nothing more
than a blur ..."
- Morgan Russell

Thursday Challenge: Food -

"Huckleberries"
digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... on the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels ..." - Charles Dickens

A winter dream of Malta -

"The Landscape Designers Midnight Gift"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the best plants come with a story ..."
- Maria Rodale

NEW from Greymoor Walk -

"Cattail"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
"... harsh nights and candlelights wood fires a'blazin',
soft lips and fingertips resting in my soul
treasuring remembering the promise of spring
pussy willows cat-tails soft winds and roses ..."
- Gordon Lightfoot

Car trouble -

"Broken Down"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down ..." - Russell Baker

Contemporary veil -

"Woman Wearing A Mantilla"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman
pray unto God uncovered? ..."
- 1 Corinthians, 11-13