Still not quite musical chairs -

"Contemporary Chairs II"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
"... nature is by and large to be found outdoors,
a location where, it cannot be argued,
there are never enough comfortable chairs ..."
- Fran Lebowitz

Not quite musical chairs -

"Contemporary Chairs I"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... time was away and somewhere else,
there were two glasses and two chairs,
and two people with one pulse ..."
- Louise MacNeice

Moody Monday: Naked -

"Naked"
$50 Unframed - LUCAS GALLERY
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

For Moody Monday this week I chose a photograph of a group of café tables to address the theme - naked. As luck would have it, one of the definitions offered for this actually reads like a poem while describing one possible point of view if, that is, furniture could talk. In a way, given words such as these, they can...and, too bad SusuPetal didn't discover them first! She could've claimed them for our collaboration and growing collection of postmodern poems. Here it is:

"... defenseless.
unprotected,
exposed,
naked to invaders..."

Where's the illustration for IF? -

"Three Broken Chairs"
montage by Mick Mather

Yes, I know, I usually have an image for Illustration Friday posted in this space. However, the piece that I worked on for IF this morning kept whispering Outer Dust Rings ... so, you'll find it here, instead. When you get right down to it, I feel lucky to have posted anything at all today, let alone two! I was at the 40 Below Summit, a very good conference I might add, for most of the day and, all of a sudden, I'm beat right down to my socks.

Like I'm not busy enough already?

"The Mirror People Cause A Commotion"
digital collage by Mick Mather

I have some old work that's been nagging at me to put a book together. This will be a sequential novel in the form of a travel guide - the sort that a tourism office might send you through the mail to entice you to make them your vacation destination this year. At the same time, this is a science fiction tale of a newly discovered planetary system that's actually a part of our own. Toward that end, the piece you see posted tonight will, eventually, be reposted at my new blog with some sort of a story attached to it. I've already begun this new adventure with another set of artistamps, a block-of-4 commemoratives. Like I said in the title to this evenings post - I don't already have enough to do!