Illustration Friday: Hibernate -

"Retiring to the Hibernation Chamber"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... put me back in the fridge ..."
- John Spartan in "Demolition Man"

Thursday Challenge: Golden -

"Golden"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

"... good drama must be drastic ..."
- Friedrich Schlegel

Ride on -

"Authority"
digitally manipulated tape transfer & collage by Mick Mather
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"... newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate
between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization ..."
- George Bernard Shaw

Let 'em eat squash -

"The Pumpkin Growers Wife"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later ..."
- Unknown

Outgoing mail -

"The Brown Envelope"
digitally manipulated tempera-on-paper painting by Mick Mather
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"... letters are expectation packaged in an envelope ..."
- Shana Alexander

I know what I saw -

"Blackbird Fly"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... into the light of the dark black night ..."
- The Beatles

Summer went -

"Last Gasp of Summer"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the end of summer is not the end of the world;
here's to October ..."
- A.A. Milne

Illustration Friday: Ferocious -

"Ferocious"
digitally manipulated tempera-on-paper by Mick Mather

"... fair peace becomes men,
ferocious anger belongs to beasts ..."
- Ovid

Party line -

"Continuing Conversation"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... don't talk unless you can improve the silence ..."
- Old Vermont Proverb

Waiting for the wind -

"Becalmed"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... God loved the birds and invented trees,
man loved the birds and invented cages ..."
- Jacques Deval

Row the boat ashore -

"Red, Right, Returning"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the water is the same on both sides of the boat ..."
- Finnish Proverb

Let it be -

"Here Comes the Sun"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... a season away from winter come,
little by little devours the sun,
the shortness of day won't last forever,
may promise of spring hold us together ..."
- Unknown

Badminton anyone?

"Shuttlecock"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... watch the birdie ..."
- Unknown

Another 1,000 cranes -

"The Paper Folders Midnight Dream"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... I will write peace on your wings
and you will fly all over the world ..."
- Sadako Sasaki

Illustration Friday: Mesmerizing -

"Mesmerizing"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... writers and travelers are mesmerized alike
by knowing of their destinations ..."
- Eudora Welty

Thursday Challenge: Family -

"Pictures of Leighlund in Poppa's Studio"
digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... happiness is having a loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city ..."
- George Burns

What is that she got?

"What You Want"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... what you want, baby I got it ..."
- Aretha Franklin

Nine Mile Creek -

"Dead Ends"
manipulated digital photograph & digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... I like trees because they seem more resigned
to the way they have to live than other things do ..."
- Willa Cather

NEW from The Chairs Series -

"The Old Office Chair"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

"... when fortune calls, offer her a chair ..."
- Yiddish Proverb

Ten years after -

"When the Sun Stopped Shining"
digitally manipulated tempera-on-paper by Mick Mather

"... he who can live in infamy
is unworthy of life ..."
- Pierre Corneille

On the grid -

"Paper Trail II"
digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... the beginning of knowledge
is the discovery of something
we don't understand ..."
- Frank Herbert

Illustration Friday: Boundaries -

"Subatomic Structures Meet the Boundaries of String Theory"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather
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"... your current safe boundaries
were once unknown frontiers ..."
- Unknown

Thursday Challenge: Learning -

"Learning Curve"

digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

"... much learning does not teach understanding ..."
- Heraclitus

Reliable transport -

"La Bicyclette"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"...when I see an adult on a bicycle,
I do not despair for the future of the human race ..."
- H.G. Wells

Wizard of Oz -

"The Giant Curtain Rises at the Rave"

digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

"... my greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down ..."
- T.S. Eliot

Go figure -

"She Holds the Key"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the first step to getting the things
you want out of life is this:
decide what you want ..."
- Ben Stein

Caught on tape -

"Neoprene Inner Cuff"
digitally manipulated tape transfer collage by Mick Mather
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"...relax, Georgie, I'm just making
my collar and cuffs match ..."
- Carole Lombard

The gravity of the situation -

"Escape Velocity"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... as memory may be a paradise
from which we cannot be driven,
it may also be a hell
from which we cannot escape ..."
- John Lancaster Spalding

Illustration Friday: Mysterious -

"The Tatters Mysterious Midnight Dream"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat ..."
- Edgar Allen Poe

Thursday Challenge: Fire -

"Fire Extinguisher"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... the most tangible of all visual mysteries - fire ..."
- Leigh Hunt