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Results for: conception

abstract art of figure and face
Mommess

covering: artist’s statement

I cover nature. Daily drawings are digital finger painting atop photos, and include collage-symbols made from other moments in time. These personal symbols are stored as images in…

April 16, 2026July 31, 2026 · 3 min read

Mommess

Life is a feeling

One of my teachers said the title of this post with great authority, and it gave me pause. How could life be a feeling, I wondered, isn’t life…

November 10, 2025November 13, 2025 · 5 min read

Language

What do you call utopia?

With Sunday Morning Hope by David Byrne and Patti Smith I don’t care for the word utopia. I feel it’s been so overused for so long that my…

November 9, 2025November 10, 2025 · 4 min read

Creativity

Terms of Endearment – Article

Article = Art + Miracle I’ve been at a loss how to brand myself as a maker of digital stuffs, so I’m not going to do it.1 And…

February 10, 2025February 12, 2025 · 2 min read

Humor

Stale questions, fresh answers

I’m treating myself to some new questions in my self-styled spa day today, because my old questions haven’t been serving up much joy or love. I have a…

September 27, 2024September 28, 2024 · 12 min read

Portal One: Egg and Three Wisdoms by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Mommess

Portals: belying space and time since the beginning of space and time

My woods walk today taught me about portals. They appeared like little natural occurrences that reminded me of the way we try to see things about times and…

September 23, 2024June 6, 2025 · 4 min read

"Rune" a #SymbolWork by EMWe Art (Elizabeth Mullen Matteson)
Body & Health

Title remains silent

She wanted her confection, her conception to be a “good good.” This is because the truth of her experience had told her if there was “good” there was…

September 21, 2024April 7, 2025 · 6 min read

Mommess

When I was before now

When I was before nowI would hear the universe gong me into new thingsor clang me for missteps This is what you wantThat is what you should do…

January 3, 2021June 3, 2022 · 1 min read

Best of Mommess

Testimony 2019

This was originally written as testimony to RI state legislature to help pass the Reproductive Health Care Act in RI in 2019l codifying RI’s citizens right to abortion…

February 10, 2020April 5, 2024 · 4 min read

Culture

Right to life: MY American birthright.

This is a tough post to write, but  I felt I must write it, and attempt to communicate something that is likely felt by many, but hard to…

August 7, 2017June 1, 2023 · 4 min read

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Culture

Post-truth: a convenient lie

[originally posted 12/6/2016] In case you haven’t already heard, here I present to you the Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year: post-truth. This confection, ahem, conception has…

January 18, 2017June 1, 2023 · 5 min read

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