HAPPY HALLOWE'EN!

"Trick or Treat 2011"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... at first cock-crow the ghosts must go
back to their quiet graves below ..."
- Theodosia Garrison

Last bouquet of fall -

"She Kept Flowers On Her Table"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... flowers are without hope;
because hope is tomorrow
and flowers have no tomorrow ..."
- Antonio Porchia

Down on the flat -

"The House and the Wind and the Prairie"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... loneliness, thy other name,
thy one true synonym,
is prairie ..."
- William A. Quayle

Illustration Friday: Scary -

"Rodeo Week on Epsilon Eridani"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... seems logical to me, Captain ..."
- Mister Spock

Thursday Challenge: Orange -

"Orange"
digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... I cannot pretend to be impartial about colors;
I rejoice with the brilliant ones and
and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns ..."
- Sir Winston Churchill

A little way west of the town center -

"Dubbo Planning Commission Project"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... create a definite plan for carrying out your desire
and begin at once, whether you are ready or not,
to put this plan into action ..."
- Napoleon Hill

Gentlemen, start your engines -

"A Day at the Races"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... faster, faster, faster
until the thrill of speed
overcomes the fear of death ..."
- Hunter S. Thompson

Room with a view -

"Window on Main Street"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... let the time go by, I won't care if I
can be here on the street where you live ..."
- Lerner & Loewe

Does anyone hear bells ringing?

"Achill Island Cowherd"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... all the really great ideas I ever had
came to me while I was milking a cow ..."
- Grant Wood

Break on through -

"The Sun and the Dark Side of the Moon"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... you know the day destroys the night
night divides the day ..."
- The Doors

Illustration Friday: Fuel -

"The Core Attendant's Midnight Dream"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... the world has achieved brilliance without wisdom,
power without conscience ..."
- Gen. Omar Bradley

Thursday Challenge: Writing & writing tools -

"Filling in the Blanks"
marker & tempera-on-index card by Mick Mather

"... Q: what do you get when you cross
a barnyard rooster with a
Detroit Soul Band?
A: a _____ chicken ..."

And the wind turned cold -

"Fall Settles Quietly In"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... for man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together;
for nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad ..."
- Edwin Way Teale

Good work, if you can get it -

"The Robin Hood Flour Queen"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... I was a Queen and you took away my crown ..."
- Marie Antoinette

Not the look they were after -

"Ahead of Her Time"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... we are not amused ..."
- Queen Victoria

Don' ask -

"Declassified III"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... unknown objects are operating under intelligent control;
it is imperative that we learn where UFO's are coming from
and what their purpose is ..."
- Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter

Don't go in the basement -

"Giggling in the Dark"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... men fear death
as children fear
to go in the dark ..."
- Francis Bacon

Illustration Friday: Scattered -

"Scattered"
collage by Mick Mather
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"... blossoms are scattered by the wind
and the wind cares nothing,
but the blossoms of the heart
no wind can touch ..."
- Yoshida Kenko

Thursday Challenge: Writing & Writing Tools -

"The Short List"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... a woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting .."
- Christian Dior

What did he say?

"Remote Viewing Locates the Suspect Tanker"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the whole idea of certainty of knowledge,
built through objective reasoning,
is only as sound as the objectivity at its basis;
question that, and we question the soundness of the
entire edifice of experimentally-derived knowledge ..."
- Charles Eisenstein

Una Paloma -

"The Mayor of Pocket Park"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... this fellow pecks up wit as pigeon's pease ..."
- from Love's Labour's Lost

The moveable type -

"Braking Wheel"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... I couldn't repair your brakes,
so I made your horn louder ..."
- the Brake Shop Guy

Down to the sea in ships?

"Two Small Boats"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... we are the boat, we are the sea,
I sail in you, you sail in me ..."
- Lorre Wyatt

Unwavering force of will -

"Green Plants Reclaiming Urban Ruins"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... all changes, even the most longed for,
have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;
we must die to one life before we can enter another ..."
- Anatole France

Illustration Friday: Contraption -

"Blueprints For A Contraption"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... men expect too much, do too little,
put the contraption before the accomplishment ..."
- Allen Tate

Thursday Challenge: Thankful -

"Indian Summer Sunset"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer ..."
- J.H. St. John de Crèvecoeur

NEW from The Selfportrait Series -

"Selfportrait of the Artist As A Wheat Paste Poster"
digitally manipulated tempera-on-paper & collage by Mick Mather
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"... remixing with new voices is creative practice ..."
- Shepard Fairey

Left, right, left, right -

"Look Both Ways"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... stop, look and listen ..."
- Every Son's Mother

Please wipe your feet -

"The Carpet Remnant"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... you lie like a rug ..."
- Unknown

Little Bo Peep -

"Lost Sheep"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"...Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
and can't tell where to find them,
leave them alone, and they'll come home,
and bring their tails behind them ..."
- Nursery Rhyme

Valet Parking -

"Car Park at the Ancient Ruins"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... an ancient dictum says that
when Zeus wanted to destroy someone,
he would first drive them mad ..."
- Jean-Marie Le Pen