Work Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/work/ words and images for mindful humans Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:36:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.emmpress.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Screenshot-2026-03-10-at-12.16.43-PM-32x32.png Work Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/work/ 32 32 Three phrase philosophy for hosting quality community events https://www.emmpress.com/three-phrase-philosophy-for-hosting-quality-community-events/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=three-phrase-philosophy-for-hosting-quality-community-events Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:14:59 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=20000 And defining some roles while I’m at it. Every large-scale event has a producer. Producers are people who brings teams together, pays artists, hires contractors, handles grounds, fencing,…

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]]> Maker Feature: Toland Colorscope https://www.emmpress.com/colorscope-feature/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colorscope-feature Sat, 23 May 2026 10:58:29 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=17846 Includes notes on creativity, ai, and inventing new languages with symbols. The Toland Colorscope system reflects an individual’s labor of love, and showcases people, color, astrology, metaphysics, history,…

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]]> 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, and include collage-symbols made from other moments in time. These personal symbols are stored as images in…

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]]> From post to gatepost: why “engaging” social media strategies don’t always get people to show up https://www.emmpress.com/from-post-to-gatepost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-post-to-gatepost Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:36:29 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=17321 and what to do about it. Focusing on social media engagement stats can be antithetical to actually helping people show up in real life. Because “engagement-based” social strategies…

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]]> Valuing your values – a mini workshop in a post https://www.emmpress.com/valuing-your-values-a-mini-workshop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=valuing-your-values-a-mini-workshop Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14628 Many moons ago I crewed for a personal development coach in Hawaii and both coasts. I used to help usher folks across beds of hot coals and jump…

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]]> weaving the www https://www.emmpress.com/weaving-the-www/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weaving-the-www Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:31:53 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=16356 With the wild west, a personal party, and thoughts on the web as a woman’s medium. Women’s work, I’ve been told by more than a few wise souls,…

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]]> Writing for focus & fittings https://www.emmpress.com/writing-for-focus-fittings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writing-for-focus-fittings Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:01:37 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=16228 Who else makes things for the sake of focus? In my world, the process of writing gives me a coherent sense of thought, a long and lovely sound…

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]]> On making love, not war, and the silent majority https://www.emmpress.com/on-making-love-not-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-making-love-not-war Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:29:06 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15975 When I first heard Double Fantasy at 11, I knew I’d heard something new. A collaboration with two unique voices: one from the West, one from the East.…

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]]> “Came by it honestly” https://www.emmpress.com/came-by-it-honestly/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=came-by-it-honestly Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:37:13 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15585 Fiction vs non and protecting people and privacy while writing. My mother in law used this expression a while back and I found it immediately empowering. That’s because…

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]]> when practicality looks like magic: 222 https://www.emmpress.com/when-practicality-looks-like-magic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-practicality-looks-like-magic Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:36:05 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15488 “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” -Arthur C. Clarke Years ago I was contracted to coordinate and improve the digital marketing for an explosively growing outfit.…

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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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]]> Long a$$ rambling tax ‘tip’ https://www.emmpress.com/long-a-rambling-tax-tip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=long-a-rambling-tax-tip Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:07:44 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15059 Hi Friends, DISCLAIMER: This is not financial advice. I am not a tax expert, and the post below is not to be considered professional advice. It is a…

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]]> Living Legacy™ and loving turns of phrase https://www.emmpress.com/living-legacy-and-loving-turns-of-phrase/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-legacy-and-loving-turns-of-phrase Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:05:06 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14859 I love turns of phrase, especially those that are, by their nature, contradictory. Living Legacy is one like this. Legacy, by definition, has to do with what you…

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]]> Road Songs, Libraries, and Hard Work Hassles https://www.emmpress.com/road-songs-libraries-and-hard-work-hassles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=road-songs-libraries-and-hard-work-hassles Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:22:12 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14295 After dropping my 15 year old at drivers ed, I drove around listening to classic rock and landed at the library. Before I forget, Bob Seeger is an…

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]]> Here’s my story (and I’m not sticking to it) https://www.emmpress.com/heres-my-story-and-im-not-sticking-to-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heres-my-story-and-im-not-sticking-to-it Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:50:59 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14214 I’ve been in between things for some time now. Like in my career. And it is glorious. I mean, literally glorious. Each day feels like an adventure, my…

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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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]]> pushy, derivative, thieving, lying, child AI. https://www.emmpress.com/pushy-derivative-thieving-lying-bastard-child-ai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pushy-derivative-thieving-lying-bastard-child-ai Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:39:01 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14051 Ok, first: forgive this title. Yes, it’s here to grab your attention, but has less vitriol behind it than perhaps it sounds. Truth is, whether I like it…

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]]> Matchy matchy branding is going, going … https://www.emmpress.com/matchy-matchy-branding-is-going-going/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=matchy-matchy-branding-is-going-going Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:37:38 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13926 I only have a few minutes to write this. Remember when the sign that a business was “official” was that all their social channels, their website, their email…

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]]> If it’s brown… https://www.emmpress.com/if-its-brown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-its-brown Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:31:54 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13848 There’s a bell in the bathroom at my mom’s house. Like one of those “ring for service,” bells that dings when you slap it. Because there’s more than…

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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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]]> Concise https://www.emmpress.com/concise/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=concise Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:04:58 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13488 I made a short 16mm film named Concise. It could be called an avant garde film and it was engrossing to make. I made it as a follow…

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]]> Believing, Knowing and a Timeless Smile https://www.emmpress.com/believing-knowing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=believing-knowing Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:56:03 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13449 The power of acknowledgement & questions for deep, time-released understanding. Sitting outside at a small red cafe table on Laguardia Place in New York City, Jim Smith looked…

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]]> Stewarding the Internet https://www.emmpress.com/stewarding-the-internet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stewarding-the-internet Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:30:40 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13404 Women are used to this in terms of motherhood, being unseen and unpaid: just “expected.” Moms do love and care and survival of the species. It’s a default…

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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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]]> Flow in the trenches https://www.emmpress.com/in-the-trenches/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-the-trenches Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:41:02 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13175 I used to work at a restaurant run by, as the owner put it, “a team of leaders.” I never knew what she meant until the rains came.…

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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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]]> Validation & Credentialing ~ Terms of Endearment for oddly-credentialed kin https://www.emmpress.com/validation-credentialing-terms-of-endearment-for-non-credentialed-kin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=validation-credentialing-terms-of-endearment-for-non-credentialed-kin Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:54:33 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12982 I’ve been pondering the value of credentialing and validation for someone to get recognized for mastery in action, but have personally not chased either; preferring instead to practice…

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]]> Confidence in Community https://www.emmpress.com/confidence-in-community/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=confidence-in-community Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:28:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12918 After working on dozens of special events like gala balls, weddings, music festivals, high-brow fundraisers, and kids’ field days, I’ve come to learn that special events need a…

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]]> The Next Generation https://www.emmpress.com/the-next-generation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-next-generation Sat, 07 Jun 2025 12:40:21 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12876 Today, I did something out of character. I showed up to volunteer for a PTO thing at my kids’ former elementary school. For the record, my kids do…

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]]> Embedded – A Term of Endearment https://www.emmpress.com/embedded-a-term-of-endearment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=embedded-a-term-of-endearment Wed, 28 May 2025 19:40:03 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12447 I usually write these Terms of Endearment posts without quoting the dictionary because I want to gain insight as to my personal experience with these words. It’s like…

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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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]]> 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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