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Tag: nature

abstract art of figure and face
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…

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

photo of sand on beach by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson. Read Post on Mommess.com
Research & Development

When a mound of sand sends you to the stratosphere

 Originally published as newsletter 09/24/2025 This photo above is of sand mound about 10 inches wide, and reminds me of hurricane clouds. In this photo I also see…

September 24, 2025September 25, 2025 · 3 min read

Body & Health

A Prompt for Nature Knowledge

Some days I walk through the woods and wonder “what is nature telling me today?” The answers are always simple. Nature tells me that old needles fall off,…

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 · 1 min read

Creativity

Titles First (and foremost?)

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…

November 10, 2024November 10, 2024 · 2 min read

Family

What is God?

I asked my 11 year old son on our walk this morning, after a long ramble through the woods where we talked about the philosophy of cross country…

October 13, 2024October 13, 2024 · 1 min read

PhoneMarkupArt #SymbolWork
Creativity

Body knowledge for the hopelessly articulate

What if your body was talking to you in myths and symbols? What if the myths you know, the dreams you have, the stories playing out in front…

September 8, 2024September 13, 2024 · 6 min read

Mommess

the web

As a web-worker myself, I find myself doing this every day; working on the Internet. That’s my ‘web’ and the moniker of my company. Sometimes connectivity feels like…

June 18, 2024June 21, 2024 · 1 min read

Family

The low road

Walking with my son in the “fairy woods,” we came to an intersection in the trail we’d come to many times before. “Which way should we go?” he…

October 9, 2021June 2, 2023 · 3 min read

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