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new of the world

6/24/2021

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an exploration into a childhood medium
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This summer, I am covering my hands in paste and digging in to paper mâché.
Elevating this medium to fine art presents a challenge as it can be hard to resist to play and create something for pure fun...but I am feeling a deeper connection to the newspaper that I am using to create the forms and patterns. 
Printed news seems like a dying art with the digital age in full force .. and with the age of "fake news" buzzing in recent years...elevating print news holds a certain importance to me.  Recycled news doesn't have to be just a bird cage liner.
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SPRINGTIME LANDSCAPES

5/30/2021

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monotype landscaping
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I've been finding harmony in monotypes, there's a certain amount of the "surprise" that I find joyful.  Each time I lay the paper down to burnish it to pick up a color, it's a similar feeling to unwrapping a beautiful gift.  It's also forcing me to simplify my view of art and strip an image down to an essence, rather than a replica of what is obvious..
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I made a sincere attempt to make every brush stroke have true intent.
One of my favorite results was a depiction of the view looking out at the Atlantic Ocean from Long Sands Beach in York Maine.  
​How do I visually capture the repeated sounds of waves crests crashing on the coastline?  I will keep trying until I can really hear it.  More to come.

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LONG SANDS YORK MAINE - ACRYLIC MONOTYPE 10"X10"
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The Merciless One

10/8/2020

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Words and Images from the BATTLEFIELD series
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The Merciless One
Erin Thomas

Lay bare witness ahead of this thread
In hurt and foregathered minefields

Of tiniest men and forest resistance
in the grazed and play of shared beat

Impossible obstruction, these sayers of sooth
These monsters of truth, these men of means and artifice

Stippled naked and fought with might
But a simple compound fracture, to repair
In the darkest of dark nights

Grown amongst insubstantial muds
and suffocating bleach water
And still, she rose.

Above
Below
And beneath
the luminous sun.

Grit fairness awaken this head
Outside the girth and weathered wheels

Of largess woman and poorest existence
In the pain and joy of scarred wheat

Impassable construction, those layers of loot
Those beasts of cooth, those women of sacrifice

Clothed in your means and drawn tight
But for a single faction, to compare
To the locust of rights

Glows against the substantial rutts and muffled cool ice
And still, she has risen

Above
Below
And beneath
the perilous son.

Fit awareness has shaken the bed
Inside the hearth of feathered heels

Of uncanny glen and the coarsest stance
And the gain and coy of furthest heat

Unstoppable liquidation became a hoot
These meats of vermouth, those fibers of rice

Bound by your seems and pulled tight
Mounted by fractions, and styled hair
And the focus of might

Rows forth these financial mutts, with stifled lice
And Still, He has risen

Above
Below
And beneath
The voluminous Gun

Glib stares awkwards the web
Internal bounds of tethered steels

Even in then... the hoarsest chance
Will wain and stall the torrid street

Whelped introduction plucked the shoot
And again, says the sooth, that shire of mice

Found by the stream and mired might
Anointed by actions and frazzled scare
And the bogus of flight

Tows North with specialized sluts rifled twice
And Still, It has risen

Above
Below
And beneath

The Merciless One


excerpt from BATTLEFIELD 
a word and visual exploration series from Erin Thomas
BATTLEFIELD
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The Shepherd

7/21/2020

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They listen, carefully
to their guide
because
they know
for sure
that the stick deters the wolf
better than a bah.
They love, fruitfully
with their eyes
because
they know
for sure
that the sheerer
soothes the skin
better than the rain.

E Thomas
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The Bunny & Zucchetto

4/27/2020

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I would love to tell a story about this human figure that's wearing a zucchetto and carrying a bunny across a desolate landscape, but I think in this case, it's more important that the viewer fills in the details and tells the story for themselves.
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Drive-by Shooting

4/13/2020

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Images shot from the passenger side of a moving vehicle.
York County / Southern Maine
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Quarantine & Cattails

4/9/2020

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Every spring for the last twenty-some-odd years I've stopped somewhere along some road side to grab a few cattail stalks to make india ink pens.
It's fairly easy to do...grab the driest ones, fairly thin, and carve the tip into a point with a utility or x-acto knife.  You can also run the tip of your knife through the tip of your pen and split it in the middle like a calligraphy pen for even better ink welling.
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I decided to make a small stack of cards using watercolors for the background, and the cattail ink pen for a drawing on top.
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AGGIE

3/9/2020

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When I need a little breath, and maybe some inspiration, I head up to Mount Agamenticus in York County Maine...I can see the mountain from my inland home from fall until the full spring bloom...and it's only about a 30 minute drive for me to get there. 
The top of the mountain offers walking & hiking trails, stunning views on all sides...views of the coastline & the mountain ranges all the way to New Hampshire and little glimpses of lakes and structures around the area and an endless sea of trees....but for me, it's the colors and textures that always capture me...an ever changing feast of leaves, branches, blooms and bugs in various states of decay and birth.
Capturing what I see and feel and sharing it eludes me....and so it keeps me captivated with the challenge of bottling it up for keeps.  And so begins my annual spring art obsession with Aggie.
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This time around on the Aggie exploration, I'm giving a go at some small acrylic monotypes because I feel that the textures capture what I felt and observed, and the surprise results that can come from a monotype will keep me from focusing on the abstracts, rather than the details. 
The grasses in March are this golden yellow color that I can't get enough of, it's the first peak of color after a long winter of looking at white landscapes and dirty salty road sides...and being stuck more often indoors and away from active nature.
I'm not sure how long this venture into printmaking will last me, but right now, it's keeping me gainfully engaged after a long winter.
If I complete a full series, I will put a gallery up on this website, or show them locally, otherwise... find me on Facebook and Instagram and say hi!  and also watch for updates...I must warn you, I have seasonal art ADHD, so your guess is good as mine as to what I will be working on on any given month.
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notes in ink

2/23/2020

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keeping up with the down
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You were followed,
for a long time.
Too long.
Disenchanted migraines
& the sounds of screeching strings
echoed in tired ears.
Keeping up with the down.

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You are hallowed
for the song line.
Too pretty, too ugly.

Fractured mind games
& the rule of Kings
Repetition of mired self hating tears.
Losing ground with the Glower.
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You were hallowed out
for the wrong time,
Oracle of things.
Knew better than even the
repetition in a mired tear.
Losing ground with the frown.
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Unplowed but sown,
Never so fine.
Not deep.
Punctured names
running of rings
& cauterized seer
Forecaster with the self appointed crown.
Keeping up with the Down.
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Ink drawings and words by Erin Thomas
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Song for the Missing

2/20/2020

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    NOTES & SKETCHBOOK


    Excerpts from:
    Ask Me About My Art  / 2020

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    Where does your inspiration come from? 

          "Everywhere! That's a bit of a tough question because inspiration is fluid and constantly evolving and it changes minute to minute, hour by hour.  I could be passionate about circles one day and trip over a rock and obsess about the color of that particular rock for a decade.  It's a constant surprise for me, that's what makes life, and art... interesting and beautiful."

    What is your creative process?
           "Well, that might be an entire separate book! I guess the simple answer is that I dump the things that clutter my brain into art so I can make room to upload all the new things." 

    What medium do you primarily work in?
          "Depends on the subject, the colors I am drawn to that day, the subject I'm looking at and whatever it is that is inspiring me at that moment...I use whatever tool necessary to best convey the story, image, or message.  I do seem to have a comfort level with acrylic on canvas, written word or digital photography, I frequently lean on and return to those tools after trying a few other things."


    Erin Thomas is an artist living in Southern Maine

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