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The Pieces You See
Yesterday, the world lost an amazing painter, David Hockney. He passed away at the age of 88. Has there ever been a painting, an illustration, or even a…
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Category: Visual Art
Creativity
What I know about social storytelling online
Besides writing an actual story, you know, like a book or play, there are other ways you can tell rich stories using platforms built for social media. And…
Mommess
covering – artist’s statement
I cover nature. Daily drawings are digital finger painting atop photos, including collage-symbols made from other moments in time. These personal symbols are stored as stickers in my…
Mommess
Hope in coping mechanisms
Today is Easter Sunday, and I’m sitting at dining table, laptop nestled among mountains of near-folded clothes, purple and white towels, and underwear. I’m also sneaking in some…
Mommess
Flip the bird like an artist
I love birds, including this one. Lately, I’ve been finding myself (and several of my friends) angry about how the world has been working. For us as individuals,…
Mommess
When you don’t have words…
say it another way. Sometimes forming essays that contain a beginning, middle, and end feels incredibly limiting, and not on target with what I’m working on… or through…
Creativity
A Visual Peace: Art as Alchemy
Creative work is alchemy. It is an honest process, that sometimes culminates something that can touch the honest places in other people too. Art, music, poetry, and stories…
History
Why try bird’s eye?
On the art & science of mapping, and our physical positioning in relationship to the places we depict. Maps may have come about, in part, to verify that…
Visual Art
Most Recent Visual Art
I make visual art on Instagram when prose just can’t hold the message.
Creativity
One-Third School, Two-Thirds Sky
I’ve had so many things on my mind lately, and much of it related to the sky: blues, clouds, galaxies, light and dark matter, and accelerating expanses. And…
Creativity
recent visual work
Birth of VenusMarkup on photo AVMarkup on photo Visual Works © September 2025 Elizabeth Mullen Matteson | Contact for licensing.
Creativity
Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project
On the checkerboard of life, the right thing is finding its way to you, as you are to it.~ My Mom Artwork: No Title by the author 2024…