Karen G-A

Waltz of the china cups. A reprise of a previous dream using 'Many Cups' jigsaw puzzle. My style incorporates elements from a work by Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930), Swiss, who was one of the first artists to be associated with Art Brut (outsider art).

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Absinthe ad, 1900. (I swear I don't work for an absinthe distiller, I just find the ads and the 'green fairy' interesting) Style incorporates crops of works by Candice Bohannan and Gabriel Pacheco, plus a jigsaw puzzle still life.

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Norwegian fiddler. Style combines The Boys, 1915 by Daniel Garber (1880-1958) and Christmas in America by Alphonse Mucha (1919).

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A peaceful simplicity in soft focus - One vintage card lightly touched up and one Anton Mauve winter landscape.

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A curious scrutiny. A female boat-tailed grackle (Quiscalus major) at St. Marks Wildlife Refuge, Florida. Style by me.

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Photo card ca. 1900 for Absinthe Bourgeois. The central image in the style is from another vintage ad, for Floralia Perfumery, 1926, by Rafael de Penagos.

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Thanksgiving holiday, 2020, USA. I couldn't find attribution for the original image (it has gone viral across social media platforms as a meme). Style is a painting of Roman ruins by Canaletto.

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Anchored in a high wind. Photo and style by me. The primary image in the style is courtesy of Miho Hirano.

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A winter gift: the camillia. Styled with John Bauer's 'Prince with a Spotted Horse' 1911.

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'When clash of arms is nigh at hand, and armor is of need. For a suit, one cannot beat the shell of a millipede.' poem by Cambium on DeviantArt. Photo and style by me.

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Skeptical, hard working, ever vigilant - a cat in Iceland. Styled with Utagawa Kuniyoshi's Ôtani Furuinosuke, from the series Eight Hundred Heroes of the Japanese Shuihuzhuan

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Sweet dreams are made of this... Photo attribution unknown - it is on reddit and on facebook. Style by me.

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One miracle wrought by the warp and weft of life: a female northern bobwhite quail, Colinus virginianus, in north Florida, styled with The Tree of Life, a tapestry woven in the early 17th century.

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Never forget: the natural world is largely indifferent to your survival. Custer State Park, August 2020. Styled with Arctic fauna by Gustav Mützel, 1892

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One anole and two ceilings.

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Do butterflies retain a memory of the earth when they take to the skies? A Zebra longwinged butterfly, Heliconius charitonius, nectaring on a Lantana. Style from Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, 1754.

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Refraction. Caen buttresses styled with Wassily Kandinsky's Hommage A Grohmann

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Lichen forests started around 250 million years ago. And still they recyle - tiny forests on a forest floor. Style by me (incorporating Conquest by Ryan Begley and the winter paintings of Gijsbrecht Leytens)

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Huech (or Tatú) - a sacred animal for the ancient Maya - trundling through my backyard as a humble armadillo. Style and inspiration provided by Claudio (thank you)..

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A fire-eyed diucon, Xolmis pyrope, in an overgrown nearly vertical slope in Valparaiso, Chile. Style by me.

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