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Smartsy-Artsy Landscape Gallery

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: July 23, 2020   Categories:  
A network of glowing nodes reside inside the silhouette of a human head. The text overlays reads: mind over matter is how matter is undermined.A gauzy photo in dim light shows a lit candle, notebook and pen, dried flowers and a cup of coffee on a tabletop, upon which is written: Writing by candlelight makes one wax poetic.Illustration with a dozen or so blockish blue humanoid figures fading off in the distance, each one standing at the center of a large metallic gear, all the gears interlocking.avalanche plunging down a snowy slope, back-lit by a low-hanging sun, rendered as a white, crystalline snowflake.A bright yellow daisy with the words, "FEEL GOOD NOW" (where the three letter "O" are replaced with smiley icons) in semi-transparent text overlaying the face of the daisy.A candy tin in the style of Altoid mints, but with the label modified to say: DISCOURAGE MINTS - super sour with a bitter aftertaste.A candy tin in the style of Altoid mints, but with the label modified to say: Mint Yourself Anew Today - ENCOURAGE MINTS - Winner's Sheen Invigorating Flavor - Freshens Breath and EnthusiasmA studio headshot of Lucille Ball from the fifties overlaid with a Groucho Marx mask and a diamond tiara. The text says, "LUCY IN DISGUISE WITH DIAMONDS"Encircled by a grayscale pin-wheel swirl, a black and white yin-yang symbol whose contrasting-color circles circumscribe the five text characters, spelling BINGE and PURGE respectively.An old school credit card imprinter (knuckle buster) for American Express Cards sits on a checkerboard floor.An impressive, multi-story stone mansion sits behind a chain-link fence with a sign saying: Private Prosperity - Keep Out.Interviewer at BURNOUT INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED asks the applicant this question: In what position do you expect to find yourself in this company, eventually? Applicant answers: Um, foetal position?Woman's waistline in a red dress cinched with a green felt belt upon which is written "AUSTERITY FOR ALL POSTERITY"The associated text spray painted on the wall of a padded room in which sits a long-haired young woman, arms outstretched, so that the lengthy sleeves of her white straitjacket reach almost to the floor.Two brightly colored Gazania (African Daisy) flowers blossom through a crack in a concrete sidewalk.A stack of books is held closed by a lock and chain.A stack of books is held closed by a lock and chain.A young girl is putting INVISALIGN-style transparent braces (with the words, "mainstream media" on them) onto her upper teeth, which have the words, "your beliefs" on them.Illustration of digital alarm clock with large SNOOZE button sitting atop a generic newspaper page.A pale green tile wall with four white porcelain urinals. Above the urinals, the words, "THE WALL STREET URINAL" in the exact same typeface as used by the paper in its masthead.Two side-by-side teacups. Over one, a human hand holds a teabag. Over the other, a cat's paw holds a gerbil.A half-circle dial indicator labeled "TRUTH METER" has three zones: green, yellow, red with the legends: Plausible, Plausibullshit and Bullshit. The needle is pinned to the extreme red for bullshit.A circus tent has two monkeys dancing in front of it.Photoshop mashup of Starbucks mermaid logo overlaid with photo of Khloe Kardashian with the facial features (eyes, nose, mouth) all alignedMan standing at edge of highway holding sign saying, WILL WORK FOR PEACEA worn, painted wooden heart lies broken in two pieces on the floor.Direct overhead photo of hard-boiled egg, balanced end-up in the center of an ornate porcelain dessert plate atop a fine lace tablecloth.A plate on a table with onion rings for eyes and a fried chicken cutlet for a mouth.A gloved hand in the foreground, a tousled bed in the background.In a pink-tinted, modernist business lobby are two cartoon-figure cheerleaders with gleeful smiley faces, above which arch the words: HYPE SQUADMan holding two fistfuls of cannabis cuttings as pom-pomsA flowering plum tree bursts into a riot of pink blossoms in the background (altered in Photoshop to be all swirly/wavy). In the unaltered foreground, an artist's easel with the partly painted scene upon it captures the artist's impression.Young woman teacher with eight kindergarten children seated on pillows in front of a large octopus display in a museum.Against a backdrop of a networked globe, Ned Buratovich (with the word, FIGMENTOR, on his T-shirt) stands holding two spheres made of colored dots.4x6 postcard: macro photo of the pinkish Cistus x purpureus flower overlaid with burgundy script saying Paint Pictures with Pigments of ImaginationA lightning bolt arcs to ground from a stormy sky. The text says: childhood trauma begets adult drama.The classical tragedy and comedy masks, somewhat stylized, with the headline: DEPRESSION'S MASQUERADEA pink-tinged, washed out teddy bear slumps at the base of a tree trunk in the setting sun.Watercolor painting of a forest glade, overlaid with text: In this moment, I am healed.Over a spiral background are three arrows in a circle, embossed with the words: REHAB RELAPSE REPEAT.Cluster of yellow lemons on a branch with green leaves sits on an embossed tablecloth. The adjacent text says: When life hands you lemons, squeeze the ever-lovin' juice out of 'em.Photo of trash can surrounded by a carpet of leaves with white text saying, "Discard that which does not serve you."A plastered mud wall with two weather-worn doors, painted with the words, GRATITUDE and GRUDGITUDE.A man's hand holds a small, globular, glass vase with four or five short-stemmed daisies in it in front of a laptop screen filled with a photo of a larger bouquet of daisies in front of a beige curtain.A young boy in shorts and a red T-shirt on a bluff, overlooking the ocean, staring out to sea, while his windblown blue balloon flies off to the side.

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