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β€œBeat Salad 10” - Tall rectangle with variegated woven dark green on cream criss-cross lines. Mirrored red asemic cursive text turned vertically for a Kanji-like effect. Running down center: two brown & cream oval drawings of a young 1930s dude fixing a salad, a circular photo of garden veg., and three green olive slices arranged to form an impression of cartoony eyes & nose.

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Gelt-Seeking Gastropod 🐚

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β€œThoughts of You 2” - Long rectangle with β€œpainted canvas” ice-block-like blue tones & pink, yellow, & white accents. Lower L. has a large, long-beaked pink tropical #bird on a light brown rock, gazing at an old-timey brass cage @ upper R. w/pair of small pale blue, black-masked tropical birds w/orange beaks inside. Lower R. has a row of five old U.S. silver Mercury dimes. Text (varied fonts): β€œYou can see there’s only enough for Everyone.”

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β€œBlue-Eyed Girl” - Square comp. in browns & grays w/trim in bright blue. 2 graduated-size square layers made of various old ad text. Atop those: an octagon w/same qualities plus half-circle cuts to make a simple floral design. Hole at center w/tiny world globe. Trim: 2 fluffy 1960s flower drawings and 2 small glass balls for β€œeyes.”

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Related Song Break:

(Kristin Hersh Folk Snippet, 1998)

youtube.com/watch?v=MWHjL-31Nx

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β€œSpecial Treat 8” - Ruby red and white square comp. with plaid-like crossed lines and criss-crossed ovoid shapes to create a simplified facet effect. At center is a β€œpainted” round pink cream dessert ringed by yellow ladyfinger cookies. Trim: two faded B&W pie servers & two tiny upside-down gold hearts all alternating at comp’s corners.

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β€œLittle Banana 8 (Love Machine)” - Coarse mint green horiz. rect. w/ripe banana close-up border @ rt. & below. Scattered trio of 3 gilded frames & 2 mats (pastel yellow or pink). They hold tiny β€œpainted” bunch of bananas, image of old engine, or text from an old pump repair manual. Trim: 3 coffee pot lids, 2 wire hearts, 2 springs, & spoon handle (supporting one of the frames) all in gold or copper. + xtra text inverted @ top

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β€œMy Man 9” - Tall rectangle in mottled blue w/giant pink shirtless dude facing front viewed from shoulders up. Rt. corner of his head is clipped & replaced w/a bit of beaded glass & 2 orange eyelets. Leaves & vines sprout from the cut. He has 2 green hills for a robe & a dk. green button over his left eye. Trim: 5 swatches of flowered fabric, & crowd of tiny figures watching from below.

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β€œNeon” Tall faded brown wood shadow box w/6 vari-sized sections. 1) Red-&-white plastic 1950s breadbox 2) 1940s girl in yellow dress falling past tower windows 3) 1940s woman in profile in gray & red outfit in 1950s night city 4) empty 5) Red fabric w/white dots & loaf of bread w/pair of china plates 6) lone gull w/blue gull flock facing other way. Text: β€œText 12-30 to 12-30 by 12:30 before it’s too late.”

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β€œTick Tock 3” - Tall rectangle in pink w/few bright blue & green bits. Portrait of young 1930s dude in specs facing front. Stamp pattern over him w/tiny copies of his own face. Off-center abstract strip below him resembles a bowtie or ascot. Trim: 3 clocks showing 6:15, 3 floral paperweights, 3 blue metal eyelets, a clip of an April 1936 calendar, & the inverted text β€œIndex to.”

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β€œCitrus 8 (Bride)” - Long rectangle with thin vertical copper-orange and yellow stripes bent to form wavy lines. 3 thicker metalic wiggles cross horizontally. Big elliptical orange slice and faint image of a man’s head at left. Blonde bride doll and a bright blue-green vertical smudge at right. Text in white: β€œIn case you need an excuse to Discover a Happy Marriage.”

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β€œMona S.A.S.A.Y.A” - Toothy square canvas in lt. green w/a few smudges of lavender & bright yellow. 6 small β€œembossed” images of the Mona Lisa arranged in a circle w/simple round shadowy floral shape behind them. Shiny tart @ center w/pear halves dyed in pastel colors. B&W Text: arranged between the Monas: β€œStay as sweet as you are.”

(Start to finish: about 48 hours. A miracle for anxious, fussy me.)

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β€œDay Sleeper 6” - Horizontal rectangle w/large white-on-black chain link fence pattern broken by yellow smudged β€œpastel” circle & 2 orange rings at top center. Place of brownies @ lower L. & 4 tobacco pipes @ R. Trim: band of glass below, strip of sleeping woman’s face & tiny oval metal grater @ L. Text: β€œThe Usual something different,” + snippet of brownie recipe in center of rings.

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β€œSunken Leisure 7” - Simple seascape with rough-textured wavy blue sky and water, some pastel-ash gray mountains, and a small cutout of a fishing vessel at right. Seven big goldfish troop diagonally from right to left. A pale green mermaid with long noodle-ish hair and big eyes stacked on on the other floats at the lower left, watching the fish.

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β€œLeafy” - Square canvas w/dark green leaf brocade fabric covered in 2 translucent layers of ad type: 1 white, 1 purple & upside-down. Big opaque white ring, topped w/2 octagonal cutout shapes turned for spiky floral effect. Small purple β€œplus” sign w/tiny green eye at tapered center, atop small opaque white circle. Trim: pointed yellow-orange bits, some w/floral fabric.

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β€œDouble Cross 7” - Long rectangle in toothy gray tones, divided into 3-odd-sized horizontal strips. Top & bottom have overlay of text from an old business guide. Middle has a pair of ornate, horizontal cross shapes made from copied & mirrored 19th Century French wrought iron. Trim: 2 1950s black metal chairs, a black bicycle, & six round, light gray cabochon-style buttons. Main text: β€œYes or No. Stay or Go.”

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β€œPeaches 5” - Square comp in red, maroon, pink, light and dark orange, and yellow. Wiggly, ovoid, and triangular shapes form a simple image like 2 blooms in profile w/petals facing one another. Trim: 2 bumblebees, a red diamond shape w/circle in center, & 2 glass jar rims. Text: β€œFuzzy Friend, Pink Pit.”

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β€œHappy Hour 10” - Tall canvas w/pink wool base, textured cream-colored panel Rt-of-center. Strip of text fr. old bar guide @ upper L. Top: pink rect. sunburst w/center hole showing more text & tiny iced #cocktail . Thinner vert. panel in dk. pink below has 3 rows of 5 small, ornate gold orbs ea. w/hole in center, & text saying, β€œRefreshingly Five Times Three.” Trim: 5 vertically placed rims of thick gold wire in various shapes.

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Arrghhh. It's No. 15, NOT No. 10!!

(I quit the internet forever. Try to get every needed detail down & then the number is WRONG damnit!!) πŸ™€

Anyway, here's the rest of the set, w/o descriptions, for those interested:

deviantart.com/msxenophora/gal

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β€œRose Room 10” - Green square w/rough, streaky texture divided into quarters. Faint image of 1940s living room in 2 of the quarters. Simple, flat chain of large pointed leaves around canvas edge, decorated w/pink & yellow #roses, 2 copies of 2 types of letter β€œR,” & 2 glass beads. Center: 2 shiny pink tiles, ea. w/a rose-like yellow gear in a hole in its center. 2 more tiny yellow rose beside them for trim.

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β€œBuzzard’s Bake Shop 13” - Fat horizontal rectangle in coarse pale yellow. 2 triangular slices of fruitcake @ top & 1 long cake strip @ bottom. A centered blue half-circle & a row of 8 forks pointing down from top. 2 pink-rimmed plates & vertical yellow strip over this form a guitar-like shape w/a simple devil’s head atop them. Other trim: 4 waxy pink & blue buttons & asemic pink cursive snippets @ left & right.

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β€œFriday In The Park” - Tall rectangle in blue & green. Covered by simple, blurred hourglass shape made from twisting a bouquet of red #poppies & other flowers in pink, pale yellow, & soft blue. 2 stylized drawings of tabby #kittens w/green eyes & mauve ribbons sit on either side of flowers. Other trim: 2 butterflies @ top & bottom & a red glass dot resembling a ladybug at center.

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