Summer of 2007 -

"Saying Goodbye To July, 2007"
photograph by Mick Mather

One of the lights of my life appeared at Poppa's door with a box of doughnuts, offered proudly as a breakfast treat. It was a perfect day so we went out for a walk, looking for a protective, barking dog away 'cross a field. As Leighlund stood looking out the second floor hallway window, I was able to catch this perfect pose. Follow this link back to MICKMATHERSARTBLOG where I've posted one element of her Father's Day gift to me at the end of June. :)

Public Art For Public Arteries -

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Totem Project Article from The Post-Standard

This public art project continues to move forward and I've been scrambling to catch up with organizing and saving the press clippings, photographs and magazine articles. Once both phases are complete and we have all of the funded 16 sculptures in place, I may open another blog just for that project. Some interest by The City of Rome, New York and another development organization in Rochester, New York have shown interest in copying this model. I must say, if that happens, I'll be about as pleased as I've been about a project that I've had the good fortune to initiate and see through to fruition. A related post about the newspaper scraps torn away during one article clipping session can be seen here at MICKMATHERSARTBLOG.

Referrence to "Architecture and the Modern Woman"

"Architecture and the Modern Woman"
digital collage by Mick Mather

As mentioned in today's post over at MICKMATHERSARTBLOG, this is the first piece in what I had been contemplating as a new series. For those of you who took the initiative to follow the link over here, welcome to this post from around October 2005.

Lexus the Wonder Dog: Are YOU lookin' at ME?

"Lexus (Original Photograph)"

by Mick Mather

As mentioned in todays post at MICKMATHERSARTBLOG this is the original photograph of my nephews dog. Below is the cropped version - with minimal repainting in one small area - before running it through the array of plug-ins and filters here at the Secret Visual Laboratory. Enjoy, and don't forget to click the link above to see the finished version.

"Lexus (Clean Cropped Version)"
photograph by Mick Mather