No Matter What Shape - The Archive

AN ARCHIVE OF MY OLDER WORK - AN EXHIBITION SPACE FOR ORIGINAL AND ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF MANIPULATED WORKS THAT APPEAR AT MICKMATHERSARTBLOG - A PARKING PLACE FOR SELECTED GRAPHICS USED IN OTHER BLOG SIDEBARS - AN ARTWORK IN AND OF ITSELF

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In its short-sightedness, blogger has turned its back on those of us stuck with old operating systems and I'm forced to find a new blog host. You will now find MickMathersARTblog at Blog.com - use the direct link found in the masthead and remember to update your bookmarks. This place will continue as another archive for a large body of my work. As many of you know, my primary medium and working method is digital collage composed of manipulated photographs often combined with digital drawing & generative images. Netlabels, bands and musicians can view samples of my CD Cover Art at Mick Mather Illustration located on Tumblr. In another life I was an Arts & Culture consultant specializing in revitalization planning through creative public art projects and programs with Economic & Community Development Departments of towns, villages and cities. In these hard financial times this work is more important than ever and I still accept consultancy inquiries. You can contact me by email at: mickmather@yahoo.com

Sunday, July 29, 2007

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. :)

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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.

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Saturday, July 21, 2007

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.

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Monday, July 16, 2007

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

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