Visual Art Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/visual-art/ words and images for mindful humans Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:54:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.emmpress.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Screenshot-2026-03-10-at-12.16.43-PM-32x32.png Visual Art Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/visual-art/ 32 32 covering – artist’s statement https://www.emmpress.com/covering-artists-statement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=covering-artists-statement Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:47:57 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=17478 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…

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]]> Hope in coping mechanisms https://www.emmpress.com/hope-in-coping-mechanisms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hope-in-coping-mechanisms Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:39:52 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=17144 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…

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]]> Flip the bird like an artist https://www.emmpress.com/flipping-the-bird/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flipping-the-bird Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:19:25 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=16577 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,…

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]]> When you don’t have words… https://www.emmpress.com/when-you-dont-have-words/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-you-dont-have-words Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:43:30 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=16555 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…

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]]> A Visual Peace: Art as Alchemy https://www.emmpress.com/a-visual-peace-art-as-alchemy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-visual-peace-art-as-alchemy Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:50:09 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15324 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…

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]]> Why try bird’s eye? https://www.emmpress.com/why-try-birds-eye/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-try-birds-eye Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:47:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14951 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…

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]]> Most Recent Visual Art https://www.emmpress.com/feed-of-art/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed-of-art Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:09:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10502 I make visual art on Instagram when prose just can’t hold the message.

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]]> One-Third School, Two-Thirds Sky https://www.emmpress.com/one-third-school-two-thirds-sky/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one-third-school-two-thirds-sky Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:56:09 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14393 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…

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]]> recent visual work https://www.emmpress.com/recent-visual-work/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recent-visual-work Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:16:34 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14101 Birth of VenusMarkup on photo AVMarkup on photo Visual Works © September 2025 Elizabeth Mullen Matteson | Contact for licensing.

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]]> Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project https://www.emmpress.com/mapping-meeting-what-you-need-on-the-checkerboard-of-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mapping-meeting-what-you-need-on-the-checkerboard-of-life Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:25:55 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14070 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…

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]]> A Rich Background https://www.emmpress.com/a-rich-background/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-rich-background Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:40:03 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13657 [originally published via newsletter on 7/29/2025] “I want RRRIIICCCCH Surfaces!” Richard Calabro commanded our college art class with twinkling bright eyes and a guttural drawl.  Our professor had…

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]]> Emergence ⟺ submergence https://www.emmpress.com/emergence-%e2%9f%ba-submergence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emergence-%25e2%259f%25ba-submergence Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:45:46 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13557 Acknowledging your submerged self, the media you choose to portray it, and The Beatles. Have your ever felt that you are emerging from something? If so, where are…

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]]> Sundials & Compasses https://www.emmpress.com/sundials-compasses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sundials-compasses Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:32:50 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13532 Because my writing like this last post is often a long and complex weave of many ideas1 , I’m writing this short post as a palate cleanser. I…

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]]> Becoming a writer https://www.emmpress.com/becoming-a-writer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=becoming-a-writer Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:35:42 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13229 Play on words, Play with words: what do you want to know about you? My first poem, which I can recite by heart, woke me up. I wrote…

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]]> The toilet in my back yard https://www.emmpress.com/the-toilet-in-my-back-yard/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-toilet-in-my-back-yard Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:45:20 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13110 And the knowing that comes from an ‘in house’ metaphor. Last month, we cashed in some Apple shares to have a friend’s brother fix our bathroom. The floor…

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]]> Lady of a non-specific location https://www.emmpress.com/lady-of-a-non-specific-location/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lady-of-a-non-specific-location Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:45:38 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12846 Our most aligned vantage point exists in our own inner space. But if you also see yourself in part through others’ eyes things can get complicated. I think…

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]]> making one’s own language https://www.emmpress.com/im-making-my-own-language/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=im-making-my-own-language Sun, 25 May 2025 10:51:04 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12701 Correspondence, energy, and how to gain self-awareness through making your language, your way. Actually, I’m working on more of symbol set, but that’s semantics for you. This SymbolWorkTM…

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]]> Veiling & The Blues https://www.emmpress.com/veiling-the-blues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=veiling-the-blues Thu, 15 May 2025 12:53:58 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12290 On my walk today, I found a painted blue trail blaze on the ground. The tree it had been painted on had been stripped of much of its…

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]]> Why I make my work freely available https://www.emmpress.com/why-i-make-my-work-publicly-available/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-i-make-my-work-publicly-available Sun, 11 May 2025 16:55:52 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12129 plus a touch of fundraising I believe in the importance of public institutions, especially Public Libraries, Public Education, and Public Art. And I understand the value of artists…

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]]> an artist date: sketching with the masters https://www.emmpress.com/an-artist-date-sketching-with-the-masters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-artist-date-sketching-with-the-masters Thu, 01 May 2025 21:01:51 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11912 From April 25, the perfect date1. I’ve noticed recently how many of my favorite thinkers, artists, musicians, and philosophers spent/spend an good amount of time consuming literature, art…

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]]> On The Cutting Room Floor https://www.emmpress.com/on-the-cutting-room-floor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-the-cutting-room-floor Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:49:02 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11547 This piece is titled “The Cutting Room” which is sooo META Here’s the story: The artwork was “done” and I submitted photos for a gallery show (the tan…

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]]> Weaving as an act of wholeness https://www.emmpress.com/weaving-as-an-act-of-wholeness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weaving-as-an-act-of-wholeness Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:06:39 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11287 Do you have a way to engage in the things you loved doing as a child? How would you feel if you did? These last couple of months,…

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]]> Mythic Oranges, Waters, and WWII https://www.emmpress.com/mythic-oranges-waters-and-wwii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mythic-oranges-waters-and-wwii Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:06:13 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11032 “Imagine That” Today’s art is in honor of an amazing painter and gentle man, Richard Fraenkel. He was my painting instructor in college. He told quiet stories. He…

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]]> Nurse Maid Bird | Movie Mode https://www.emmpress.com/nurse-maid-bird-movie-mode/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nurse-maid-bird-movie-mode Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:39:40 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10335 I shouldn’t be happy when my 15 year old daughter is home sick, but I am. I delight in getting to take care of her because there are…

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]]> Terms of Endearment – Acceptance https://www.emmpress.com/terms-of-endearment-acceptance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=terms-of-endearment-acceptance Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:20:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9981 This is a Terms of Endearment (TOE) post. These are words that keep coming up that I find myself re-defining for my own relief, amusement, and insight. Acceptance…

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]]> Take back the alphabet & re-write your life https://www.emmpress.com/take-back-the-alphabet-and-re-write-your-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=take-back-the-alphabet-and-re-write-your-life Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:32:39 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9888 How work with the most basic building blocks in order to elevate your communication. I’ve always seen the alphabet as a beautiful grouping of shapes and fascinating set…

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]]> E=mc² – a reason to make art https://www.emmpress.com/emc%c2%b2-a-reason-to-make-art/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emc%25c2%25b2-a-reason-to-make-art Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:29:49 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9714 A genius creation that exists only inside our minds can’t hold a candle to the energy that exists in even the tiniest bit of stuff you make. I…

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]]> 7 | 8 Reflections https://www.emmpress.com/7-8-reflections/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=7-8-reflections Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:51:13 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9464 alphabets, art, hospitality, & coverings Dear Lisa,This morning I woke up naturally, later than usual and in a warm and dark and quiet place, with a beautifully comfortable…

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]]> Participate in a Public | Digital Search Project https://www.emmpress.com/participate-in-art-public-search-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=participate-in-art-public-search-project Thu, 26 Dec 2024 22:01:34 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9304 I stole this post, screenshots of my own images, and public research project back from my IG account, where the winners of original physical art will be sought…

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]]> Artist’s Confidential https://www.emmpress.com/artists-confidential/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=artists-confidential Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:55:26 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8792 AKA pulling apart a piece of art, with some web-weaving via inappropriate footnoting. This entire piece is about a rapidly made Instagram reel (with high hopes of it…

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]]> Gail Force https://www.emmpress.com/gail-force/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gail-force Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:07:50 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8479 Gail lived with us for several months when I was five years old. Gail was 15 years old at the time, an avid 1970s free spirit, a pot…

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]]> Titles First (and foremost?) https://www.emmpress.com/titles-first-and-foremost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=titles-first-and-foremost Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:43:17 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8351 I saw a delightful and giddily relaxed David Bowie1 in an old video clip saying something so true: artists are more comfortable describing their process than what things…

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]]> Through Lines, Titles, & Hiding While Seeking https://www.emmpress.com/through-lines-titles-hiding-while-seeking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=through-lines-titles-hiding-while-seeking Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:09:20 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=7675 Thoughts on being an artist and privacy. As an artist who expresses herself through the medium of digital construction, I’d like to introduce Mommess as a full —…

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