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Palestine, Oh Palestine (Papa, Mama, What Blankets to Cover All of Us)

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A Day Without Art, December 1, 2023

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International Spirit Day (Detail from large oil painting circa 1990s, poems from "Love Lullabies", 2006, digital collage/montage elements and photo from Spring 2023)....I never know when an amalgam of things which just suddenly come together. 3rd Thursday in October

Spirit Day (Anti-Bullying) When: 3rd Thursday in October Date: October 19, 2023

International Spirit Day was first established in 2010 by Canadian teenager Brittany McMillan. It was created in response to a series of bullying related suicides of LGBT2Q+ students in 2010.

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Given the subject matter and my pain-filled anger concerning the circumstances of the entire piece - I’m very surprised this ever got published.  Thank you bombfirelit!

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"Gee, What Happened?", digital collage

#trump mugshot #trump indictment #resist trump #goodbye trump #political art #political satire #political cartoon #collage #collage art #humor #digital art #stephenmeadart

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Stephen Mead (@postcardsfromthedeep) • Instagram photos and videos

"Dear Sinead, May Grace Abound" Spent several hours working on art where one montage grew into another and thus I eventually collected them into this short collage tribute film. It's odd to feel a connection with someone I've never met, but this is how it is with empathy, creativity and how we touch one another's souls.

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Pride Horse Nebula", mixed media. Yesterday at local Pride March took this photo of gorgeous stallion with rainbow reins. While working on a different painting, the horse as an historic symbol of strength meets grace kept brewing at the back of my head - along with the idea that the universe is always truly infinitely larger than our moments of political turmoil - thus this hopeful image of gentle power evolved.

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Happy, er, Pride (or "I don't know what the heck is going on with large sections of lgbtqi-hating people around this crazy world!")

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Tea with Van Gogh

This film was inspired by a trip to the Immersive "Van Gogh Experience " in August of 2022 - the art montages created eventually inspiring a poem, soundscape & finally this short film. Experiencing his room and imagining Van living with his painterly visions while going about his daily tasks really brought home the depth of his humanity.  This film aims to be an homage to that spirit.       

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Drag Queen Photo Editing Program:  https://en.pixiz.com/frame/drag-queen-737353

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Another one from the vaults I finally got around to typing and sending out! 

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Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

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Happy International Women's Day, mixed media image is an excerpt from "We Are More Than Our Wounds" series. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiyuoCuAb8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"Annex", posting for Holocaust Renembrance Day. Text originally appeared in Poetry Super Highway. Image from "Weightless" series CreateSpace book. FREE download of this hybrid at Weebly site Postcards from the Deep, Stephen Mead. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7SZMzODOU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Banks of the Nile (Altered Lyrics)

Last year I re-worded the traditional "Banks of the Nile" to make it queer-themed and pertinent to the ongoing psychological war against LGBTQI rights. I have a wav file of the recording and was wondering if anyone would be interested in working on the musical end of the piece. The revised lyrics are below and thank you for your consideration in this matter. Banks of the Nile (altered lyrics) Oh listen! Hear how the drums do beat, my love, no longer can we stay The bugle-horns are sounding clear, and we must march away We're ordered down by military and it's many the weary mile To join yet one more Army again on the banks of an Historic Nile Oh Willie, dearest Willie, don't leave me here to mourn Don't make me curse and rue the day that ever I was born For the parting of our love would be like parting with my life So make me your home, my dearest one, and I will be yours for all time Oh my Manny, dearest Manny, sure that will never do The governments' have ordered slaughter, and we are bound to go The government's have ordered slaughter and our conscience gives command so I am bound on oath, my love, to serve in that foreign land Oh, but I'll cut out all of my fear and I'll run away with you I'll dress myself in camouflage, and we'll find our promised Eden too I'll stride beneath your banner while fortunate pride it do smile And we'll comfort one another on the banks of some happier isle But you are in a conversion camp and they have bullied you with their prayers And under the sultry sons of sultans your sweet nature would recoil Where the tanks do blast and rattle, when the bullets they do fly And the twisted trumpets sound so loud to hide the dismal cries Oh, cursed be those of such cruelty, that ever their hate began For they have robbed our countries of many a good human Yes, they've robbed us of our loved ones- why their bodies they still feed the lions - On the red and bloody deserts which are the banks of their forsaken Nile.

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Another "Day without Art" piece; started working on last night...

Day Without Art began on December 1, 1989 as the national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis, which had rapidly hurt the artistic community. Jane Alexander, the Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts in 1993, describes the day as a "powerful symbol of the devastating effect of AIDS on the arts community. This day reinforces the vitality and power art brings to our daily lives by showing how the absence of art leaves a void of spirit." The day coincides with World AIDS Day,[1][2] which began the year before in 1988. To make the public aware that AIDS can touch everyone, and inspire positive action, some 800 U.S. art and AIDS groups participated in the first Day Without Art, shutting down museums, sending staff to volunteer at AIDS services, or sponsoring special exhibitions of work about AIDS.[3][4] Since then, Day With(out) Art has grown into a collaborative project in which an estimated 8,000 national and international museums, galleries, art centers, AIDS service organizations, libraries, high schools and colleges take part.[3]The memorial was initiated by a New York group called "Visual AIDS",[1] who spurred public actions and programs, published an annual poster and copyright-free broadsides, and acted as press coordinator and clearing house for projects for Day Without Art/World AIDS Day. In 1997, it was suggested Day Without Art become a Day With Art, to recognize and promote increased programming of cultural events that draw attention to the continuing pandemic. Though "the name was retained as a metaphor for the chilling possibility of a future day without art or artists", we added parentheses to the program title, Day With(out) Art, to highlight the proactive programming of art projects by artists living with HIV/AIDS, and art about AIDS, that were taking place around the world. It had become clear that active interventions within the annual program were far more effective than actions to negate or reduce the programs of cultural centers. In 2014, the Los Angeles art collective, My Barbarian, staged a video performance in remembrance of Pedro Zamora, inspired by the queer theorist, José Esteban Muñoz's theory of counterpublicity.[5]

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