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Category: Visual Art

emwe_art

My work is exploring symbols and making beautiful & interesting things. Digital art carries energy in pixels. Enjoy work magic🪄Elizabeth

“Shades | Blind” Markup on photograph of pavement “Shades | Blind”Markup on photograph of pavement. All my attempts to shade a seeing, unshielded eye by drawing a shade — the kind with dangling ring at the bottom, figures, and symbols. #seeing #vision #shades #abstractart #emwe_art
My Trivial Pursuit - Making Symbols From Mushrooms My Trivial Pursuit - Making Symbols From Mushrooms, and covering nature like a digital graffiti artist.  No harm done to original spaces #digitalart #rhodeislandphotographer  #rhodeislandartist
“It Wasn’t Gold” Markup on photo of bird that res “It Wasn’t Gold”Markup on photo of bird that rested on my doorstep. Likely a goldfinch. #goldfinch #abstractart #goldenyellow #photography
Call Her Lacey Markup on photo of tree bark. #abs Call Her LaceyMarkup on photo of tree bark. #abstractart #rhodeislandartist #art #eggeyes #tree
The oiFoot Falls Markup on photo, 2026 #pavement The oiFoot FallsMarkup on photo, 2026 #pavement #abstractart #artist #art #color
Untitled, with green boat Markup on photo, EMMatte Untitled, with green boatMarkup on photo, EMMatteson 2026#flower #morningglory #artist #abstractart #emwe_art
“Forgiveness Road is 2 Fence Posts” Markup on pho “Forgiveness Road is 2 Fence Posts”Markup on photo | EM Matteson 2026 This piece is about working on forgiveness, thinking about “good fences make good neighbors,” and painter Giorgio de Chirico (albeit this image has much sunnier colors). Posts on social media and this fence post are colored for a much wider eye, with text that describes process. #artist #emergingartist #fenceposts #art #rhodeislandartist
Finding a way to describe my mindset has been hard Finding a way to describe my mindset has been hard. Especially after a Zen-spiced fire shot through the practicalities of my life, claiming much of my livelihood and my sense of self too.Articulating states of being and the mechanics of creativity seems now, my calling. I used to make things because it occupied my time, then did so in school for grades, then did so in cities for galleries, then did so for pay while promoting others’ agendas and livelihoods (and it was all good).NowI make things to save the world, by making a world out of the blank space within me via art & writing.My work emerges from nothingness inside, and is triggered by nature, memory, or body knowledge.I make things that include engagement of my heart, my mind, and that which comes in from elsewhere. The wholeness of the process, my concentration while making things, helps me hear life better and stay sane.Putting out a few coherent words — or piece of art— to you is one of the most gratifying things I do each day.🛟🛟 Follow my journey “from zero to sixty” by signing up for my weekly dispatch at  emmpress.com - link in bio#writer #artist #multidisciplinary #creativemindset
From today’s walk in the woods—photos of circular From today’s walk in the woods—photos of circular things. A stump with lichen, a mushroom, an inadvertent image  made to collage. #digital_art #collage #collageartist #collageartwork
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Creativity

Through Lines, Titles, & Hiding While Seeking

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 —…

October 17, 2024October 18, 2024 · 5 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

Art by Henri Matisse, 1916.
Creativity

Seeing vs sighting: a creative’s guide to perspective

Axes, dimensions, observers, and the role of inner perspective. As a girl, one day while standing on the side of a cliff looking out over the water, I…

September 17, 2024July 13, 2025 · 6 min read

Screenshot of a gallery I will never show you instead inserted as a single image for sake of digital integrity
Best of Mommess

Seeing: a creative’s guide to the senses

philosophical practices in nature -|- the art of trusting your senses The idea to put together this series came this morning in the woods. Most days, I walk…

September 13, 2024September 17, 2024 · 5 min read

Mommess

responsiveness: in websites and in life

I find myself needing to write every day. The swirl of ideas and realizations are vast and without some expressive outlet. So, I’m giving myself 15 minutes today…

June 30, 2024June 30, 2024 · 2 min read

em dash and middot are some personal faves in the world of special characters
Mommess

em dash — • middot

I love punctuation. It has as much to do with the shape and positioning of the glyphs in relationship to words nearby as anything else. Visual, not just…

June 25, 2024September 24, 2024 · 1 min read

Creativity

Collage, Mosaic, and Original Art

A Digital (with a tip of the hat to a Da Da-ist) Exploration of the Taj Mahal Nina Paley said “all art is derivative” in 2010, and I…

April 15, 2024April 19, 2024 · 2 min read

Creativity

Collections of an art dilettante

I had a high school art teacher whom I used to bump into in my 20’s say to me, “I’m so sorry I suggested you go to that…

March 26, 2024July 13, 2025 · 3 min read

Culture

Reconciling Paradox – an Artist’s Way

Art CV at bottom of this page, includes cyber art citations back to 1997-2003. Here’s another installment of my younger self aiming to figure stuff out, and simply…

March 17, 2024December 26, 2024 · 6 min read

Creativity

NFT-y

Back in 2021, I woke up with a start one night, read a random article about NFTs, and set about this new art project. It’s not over yet,…

January 1, 2024June 25, 2024 · 2 min read

Best of Mommess

Being a creative – how does art come through?

I wrote something the other day, and it was pretty honest and it was good. So I read it over and over again. I remember when I was…

May 16, 2023August 10, 2023 · 5 min read

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