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I created this piece in honor of my best friends baby girl, Lillian

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Painted Fall 2020 Oil limited palette oil paint using UB, YO, TR, IB, TW colors.

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Designing and painting oriental rugs is time consuming, but very rewarding. They take many hour to complete. This one is for sall. Please contact me at my website.

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After attending my first LGBTQ+ wedding, I realized that we are establishing history, constructing a world where individuals can love, live, explore and celebrate individuality. I made this polychromatic piece to display the courage of the LGBTQ+ community over the past 50 years. Since the Stonewall uprising, activists advocating for equal rights for members of all races, classes, genders, ethnicities, partners, and identities continue to prevail. I subdivided the groups and bodies to represent the many identities that make up this diverse community. While encountering setbacks, the figures' postures remain resilient. Some of the bodies in the collection have identifiable colors and emblems from flags used by the PRIDE community. As support continues to expand, more communities are coming out. I added figures with color schemes currently unrecognizable to personify future, unidentified groups finding support and unity in the PRIDE community. I also illustrated figures with bodies colored with allyship flags to characterize the importance of heterosexual and cisgender people advocating for equality for the LGBTQ+ community. The composition emits courage and PRIDE through a band of rainbow colors in bodies and transforming environments.

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Mixed Media

This piece is part of a series that I've created called "CDecoupage". I recycle old discs (CDs, DVDs, PC programs, and games) into mosaic sculpture and collage. I utilize the original colors, texts, and images to bring my aesthetic vision into fruition. This piece is my depiction of a Great White Shark and two friendly dolphins in their natural habitat. 
Contact: michaelford192@gmail.com

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Craft

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Oil on stretched canvas 36 X 24"

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acrylic

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Trio of blue shades of swarovski faceted glass beads with sterling silver clasp and earring wires, sells for $25.00, email: JewelryByBorders@gmail.com for shipping cost.

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Gesture 6, 2016, 8 x 8 inches, oil on canvas

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glicee print by ms b the doodle queen who explores the idea that everybody wants to be known for something in the lifetime. Could it be that some will seek headlines to destroy or hate one another. The marking of the black flower represents that particular personality disorder. Feel free to weed out those in the garden who feel powerful with destructive ways and attitudes. Prune with vengeance.

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Sculpture

Recess carved Mahogany

Mixed Media

18 x 24 mixed media

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The Man in this Photo is Facts Bailey. He told me a story that I didn't quite understand with my ears, but my eyes made more sense of it. This Photo was Placed 3rd in The 2023 UMMC Healing Arts Adult Intermediate Category.

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Graphite on bristol board 2015

Works on Paper

I made the fish print in art class. I made it by using a rubber fish, a brayer, black paint, and parchment paper. I put the paper down then put the fish on it. I squirted the paint on and I rolled it down. I put the paint on the fish and turned it over to makee the print. Then I did extra things like adding my own kitty stamp. 

Sculpture

Bronze with granite base of a woman in a yoga position

Works on Paper

This graphite drawing depicts a machine-creature consisting of a spherical cage filled with twisted pipes and machine detritus.  The work was begun in 2014 and completed in 2015.  As with several other drawings in this series (“The Living Machines”), thematic elements from natural and artificial evolution are explored in the work.  Background elements are taken from the Santa Rita mountain range south of Tucson Arizona and East of I-19.  The main subject of the drawing, the spheroid machine-creature in the foreground, might have a vegetative intelligence rather than a high-level human-like form of intelligence.  It is shown interacting with its surroundings, grazing on sticks or perhaps doing some other vegetative activity.  This creature is somewhat less machine-like than those depicted in other drawings in this series, with no explicit “feet” and an amorphous character. 

Craft

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Graphite on paper.

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Small gesture in attempt to have some "me time".

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1930s Japanese bone china teapot and cup at bottom of hill with windmill behind.