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"Sofa and Chair"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it ..."
- Shirley Conran

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"Danish Modern Stacking Tables"
digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house ..."
- Henry Ward Beecher

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..."

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"The Oversize Coffee Table Book"
digital collage by Mick Mather

In a moment of weakness and need, I began this piece in photoshop. Little by little I'm working things out and I have to admit there are some very useful filters there. I s'pose a few of my past rants have been about certain plug-ins that have a weird look to them. Recently, I've been using some of those plug-ins (hopefully not over-using any of them) and have softened my view somewhat. As mentioned before, they can be very seductive and, for me, require very careful handling. That said, there's something that attracts me to those furniture ads and circulars one gets in the Sunday papers, or the mail. So, here we have one...a dark and moody piece that I find mysterious, suspenseful and, in some strange way, comforting.