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Anna Banana

@artsalad.bsky.social

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Previously from library land. Now: collage, cardmaking, assemblage art, altered art, surrealist banana art, banana collecting preservationist & related artifacts. instagram.com/love.ann.m instagram.com/washingtonbananamuseum

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

. out for a spin . moped might be a Motobécane or Mobylette - anyone know? . #collage #analogcollage #art #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

. A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. --- #WalterMosley . background by Frank Moore, 1953 - 2002 . #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

bibliophile . #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Fashion fades, only style remains the same. #CocoChanel #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart #cabinetcards #alteredphoto

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Inspired by and reimagined Max Ernst's Oedipus Rex (1922), without all that complicated sexual imagery and symbolism. I just like the puffin and woodpecker .... #MaxErnst #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart #surrealcollage #surrealism #dada

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

. in the cards . #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I shut my eyes in order to see. #PaulGauguin #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart #loverseye #artistsofbluesky

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

. I danced along a colored wind Dangled from a rope of sand ----- #TomWaits #Singapore #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe #BobDylan #collage #analogcollage #outsiderart #art #LikeARollingStone

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat #BobDylan #collage #analogcollage #outsiderart #art #LikeARollingStone

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

You said you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realize He's not selling any alibis #BobDylan #collage #analogcollage #outsiderart #art #LikeARollingStone

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Once upon a time you dressed so fine You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you? #BobDylan #collage #analogcollage #outsiderart #art #LikeARollingStone

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ----- #SalvadorDali #collage #analogcollage #art #outsiderart #

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

. seeing the real you at last -- #BobDylan #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

hat city . F. A. Place, Chicago, 1910s . #cabinetcard #antiquephoto #cabinetcards #collage #analogcollage #art #artsky #blueskycollage #alteredphoto #antiquephotography

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them. --- #MaxErnst #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Enchantment is destroyed by vagueness, and mystery exists only in precise things. ------ #JeanCocteau #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Civil War drum, various implements, ceramic pieces, leaves and miscellaneous gold jewelry make up this hodgepodge collage from several years ago. #collage #analogcollage #art #artsky #assemblage #collagework

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Jupiter rising #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart #jupiter

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

fan dance #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

slide rule wars . from the archive a few years ago #collage #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

daydream background by Kinuko Y. Craft #collage #art #analogcollage #collageart #blueskycollage #artsky #outsiderart #artists #collages #assemblageart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business...." #TomRobbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues . background by Ralph Albert Blakelock "Moonlight, Indian Encampment" 1885 #collage #collageart #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #outsiderart #artsky

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

oddball convention background by Winslow Pels #collage #collageart #art #analogcollage #handcut #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart ##artsky #hybrids

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

One more cup of coffee for the road, one more cup of coffee 'fore I go to the valley below. #BobDylan #collage #analogcollage #art #handcut #outsiderart #artsky #creatures

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

mixed up confusion #collage #analogcollage #art #outsiderart #handcut #artsky #blueskycollage

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Veronica #VeronicaLake #collage #collageart #art #analogcollage #handcut #papercollage #blueskycollage #outsiderart #artsky #mixedmediacollage

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Too weird to live, too rare to die! #HunterSThompson #collage #collageart #art #analogcollage #handcut #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart #artsky #robots

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Saturday hodgepodge #collage #collageart #art #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #blueskycollage #outsiderart #artsky

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. #WilliamWordsworth Mangrove Cuckoo and English military serpent instrument #collage #analogcollage #art #analogart #birds #WindilInstruments #MusicalInstruments #artsky #blueskycollage

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency. #MargaretAtwood #collage #collageart #art #analogcollage #handcut #papercollage #artsky #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Don't make me do it without the fez on -----Songwriters: #DonaldFagen #WalterBecker Paul Lawrence Griffin #collage #collageart #collageartist #art #analogcollage #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart #analogart #assemblage #artsky

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Emeralds make a lovely gift. --- #MauriceSendak #collage #analogcollage #art #jewelry #artsky #blueskycollage #outsiderart #artists #handcut

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. #RayBradbury #collage #collageart #art #analogcollage #handcut #papercollage #artsky #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. #MarkTwain #collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart #artsky

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

natural history #collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person. #FranzKafka #collage #art #surrealism #analogcollage #artsky #blueskycollage

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

. I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. #ArthurRimbaud #collage #analogcollage #art #poetry #outsiderart #collageart #analogart #blueskycollage #artsky

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

. If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace. #LFrankBaum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz #collage #art #creativity #analogart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

. It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. #FScottFitzgerald, The Great Gatsby #collage #outsiderart #art

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Spotlight Dance Hotel #collage #art #outsiderart #blueskycollage #artsky #analogart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man? #EricaJong #collage #analogcollage #art #collageart #outsiderart #blueskycollage #artsy

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

chipping away #collage #art #sculpture #statues #blueskycollage #collageart #analogcollage #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

. Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. . #RayBradbury . #collage #collageart #collageartist #art #analogcollage #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

. Pandora's box . #collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind #MuniaKhan . #collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

. I hide on the stairway and I hang in the curtain and I sleep in your hat #TomWaits . #collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ---Muhammad Ali . #collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #outsiderart

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

To understand is to perceive patterns. ---Isaiah Berlin #collage #analogcollage #collageart #collagework #art #outsiderart #blueskycollage

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

. dragonfly breath . #collage #collageart #art #outsiderart #cutandpaste #collagework #blueskycollage #dragonfly