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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I have a small pond, this time of year there's a bear in it daily. They just sit like this for a while. This is also about something called parallel play; being physically close to someone but each doing your own thing. It's one of my favorite ways to be with loved ones. <3

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I made this in about 2005 I think, It's one I'm thinking about reworking now. Glad you like it!

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

As Above, So Below Everything is connected. What happens within us will happen outside of us. In an angry world, try to stay a little longer in the small moments of beauty in your daily life. It's not avoidant, it's nurturing. Reflect any joy that comes your way outward. Even a little bit matters.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Really feeling like Fall outside these past few days, so I made a little friend to celebrate the season.

In the artwork Haunted by Cynthia Decker, a small ghost draped in a white sheet floats midair under a twilight-blue sky scattered with stars. The ghost is framed by the circular window of a dark, weathered structure, its edge surrounded by the twisted silhouettes of leafless trees reaching inward. The scene feels both spooky and gentle, this ghost isn’t haunting anyone, just quietly existing under the night sky. A soft play between innocence and eeriness captures the feeling of Halloween without menace, only mystery.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

All this time and I never knew there were tiny flowers in the tiny flowers on hydrangeas!

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Fragmentary Forest ~ Our lives get interrupted in small ways all the time, but sometimes there's the big things - illness, grief, change that's hard to adapt to. It may feel like we're stopped in our tracks, but don't forget, the path picks up on the other side of the gap.

A serene forest glows in soft, golden morning light. Tall, straight trees rise high into a canopy of green, their trunks thick and weathered. But in the foreground, three large trees appear partially erased—their upper sections float mysteriously above the stumps, with chunks of bark and wood suspended in midair like scattered pixels. Between the broken trunks, delicate white daisies carpet the forest floor, swaying gently in the filtered light. A small bird perches on the edge of one fragmented stump, adding a quiet spark of life to the surreal scene. The image feels both peaceful and haunting, as if nature itself is coming undone in pieces.

An allegory of loss and renewal. Even when things fall apart, the forest remembers how to rebuild itself, one fragment at a time.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This meme leaves out the TRILLIONS of dollars his Big Bill tax cuts to the rich will cost US taxpayers.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Family Tree ~ There's no such thing as a "normal" family. Everybody's weird, everybody struggles. At least you got your grandmother's leaves.

In a room with cracked blue plaster walls and worn wooden floors, two figures stand for a family portrait. On the left, a tall column of dense green foliage stands upright, but bare human feet poke out from beneath.To the right, a small round bush sits on a yellow chair, a pair of legs dangling casually from underneath, small feet not reaching the floor. Hanging on the wall behind them is an ornate oval-framed faded portrait of the grandmother, also made of thick green leaves, but with a neat white hat perched on top. The surreal scene blends humor and symbolism, portraying family members as literal extensions of a “family tree,” roots and branches in human form. There's no right way to be a family, you share roots regardless.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I want to note that in the immediate area around the gallery, there remains flood destruction and debris. People are still suffering here, especially in areas outside town. Funding has been promised, but withholding, denial of extensions, and delays is making rebuilding difficult and slow.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

1 year ago, Hurricane Helene tore through Asheville, taking 108 lives and flooding homes, businesses, and the Marquee gallery under 16 feet of water. Last night, the rebuilt Marquee reopened, and it felt like all of Asheville showed up! A great new beginning for a resilient creative community ❤️

Image shows the facade of the Marquee Gallery the day after the Hurricane Helene flood waters receded. Half the front facade is gone and the building is blocked by slabs of the parking lot and debris from other nearby businesses.

Image shows the interior entrance ramp of the Marquee Gallery,blocked by mud, trees, debris, and items from inside the gallery. The flooded river reached up to 16 feet, and a few colorful umbrellas that were hanging from the celing remain.

This is the entrance ramp of the Marquee looking from the inside of the 50k sq foot gallery out to the parking lot. This was the night of the re-opening, one year after the flood, and the turnout of support was breathtaking. the ramp is filled with visitors, and the crowd stretches into the parking lot, waiting to come in.

At the Marquee on opening night, the aisles were packed with people, but I managed to snap a picture of my booth in a relatively quiet moment.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I am autistic. I'm lucky, I have low support needs, and I wouldn't take a cure if there was one. My autism brings challenges and gifts, it makes me who I am. Many autists need significant support, and making sure their needs are met and resources are available should be where the effort goes.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Personal Growth ~ This was inspired by the people I met at my mother's senior community. Every one of them had reinvented themselves many times over. New careers, new hobbies. It's important we foster growth even in our later years, and remember we're never too old for new ideas.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

the greatest achievement of the UN will be if they do not openly laugh at this ridiculous D list celebrity.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

They have the same number of autistic kids as any other community.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

heh, my nephew referred to it as "the olden times".

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

This is a tiny amount to Disney, but it's an excellent start.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

“... I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” He clearly is in violation of his oath. Where's the line, and is it pointless with congress in his pocket?

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We have the vote, you have the platform. Keep speaking out, fact check in real time, urge your conservative constituents to not blend their religion and their politics.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I'll be showing a miniature framed canvas of "Personal Growth" at Shopliftable! 50 different artists showing pocket sized work at 502 Gallery in Sarasota, FL next week. Sept 20 – Oct 25, 2025 Opening Reception: Sept 20, 5–8pm 502 Gallery, 502 S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, FL www.502.gallery

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

key difference between the left and the "christian" right is that the right attaches their politics to their religion. So being wrong is a literal crisis of faith. This is why they reject the truth - because for them it's about belief and identity. It's personal. That's what needs to change.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Moving Day ~ Life spins on, picking us up and letting us off whether we asked for it or not. This image is how I think about the constancy of life changes and it reminds me that sometimes home isn't where you stay, but what you carry with you as you go.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

You're so kind. Honestly I think I'll always feel like 3 racoons in a trenchcoat trying to pass as an artist. :D I like seeing your work because you distill things down into these essential visual elements, and you have a clear style. Looking forward to what you put out next!

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

the stark atmosphere is great with the architecture. Feels cinematic

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

they must keep half the horde, and distribute the other half to the needy. Then they become the new dragon.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

"Snowy Outpost" I should probably get better at creative naming, but I'm a literal person, so unless there's allegory in an image, I tend to just name it what it is. It's a snowy outpost. 🙃

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It's not a 1:1 energy expenditure to recovery either. If you've had a draining day, it may take you 1 to recharge, or 5.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

None of the names should stay secret except victims.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

He's moving space force and trying desperately to distract from the Epstein victim's press conference at 3pm.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This piece has never been one of the popular ones, but to me, it’s what I set out to create: romantic, nostalgic, and immersive. I wanted it to feel like a memory, where the flowers keep blooming, the lake reflects the sky, and the cozy house waits at the top of the hill.

In a meadow thick with tall grass and clusters of white wildflowers, an old white bicycle leans against a brick post beside an iron gate. A small bird perches lightly on the post, while behind it rises a rocky hill dotted with moss and greenery. Atop the hill stands a stately cream colored house with steep gables, tall chimneys, and warm sunlight glowing on its pale brick walls. The background is filled with lush green trees, their leaves catching the morning light, and beyond them a glimpse of calm water reflects the sky. The scene feels timeless, both abandoned and alive, a quiet romantic nature getaway.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"Time Out" is a place that doesn't forget. It's a portrait of emotional memory, of things that leave a mark.

Inside a crumbling stone house, sunlight filters through broken roof beams, casting sharp rays across the dusty, uneven wooden floor. Several floorboards have collapsed, revealing dark gaps beneath, while the weathered walls are covered in layers of graffiti. The largest scrawl, painted in bold black letters, reads “TIME OUT.” At the far end of the room, a single red rocking chair sits facing the corner, upright and empty. A shaft of light streams in from the open doorway next to the chair. Beyond the doorway, a faint view of the surrounding forest is visible, pale against the shadows inside. This image reminds us that some places hold memories, and not all of them are nice.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

"Adrenaline Junkie" He may be slow, but he lives on the edge.

A worn stone cliff fills the left side of the image, stark against a wide open sky filled with drifting clouds. A distant landscape at the bottom of the image suggests we are at a very high elevation. From the cliffside grows a thick, twisted tree, its trunk bending downward and back up where bare branches reach toward the sky. At the bottom of the trunk's curve, no safety line, no net to catch him, a tiny snail is upside down, clinging to the underside of the tree, hanging high above the dizzying drop to the valley below. He's not going anywhere, he just does it for the rush. It's a daredevil moment where the smallest little dude becomes the boldest thrill seeker.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I don't get hunger signals, If I go long enough I know I need to eat because I'm cold, shaky, and have a headache. If I wait for a fullness signal I'll be so full I'm on my back unable to turn over like a tortoise. I have burned myself with heating pads. I have to be mindful. it's tiring.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I met my neighbor who lives an acre away and we were laughing about how rarely we talk. They say “Good fences make good neighbors”. It's a phrase that baffled me as a child but makes just SO much sense now. I need my space and solitude, absolutely, but it's good to say hello every so often.

In "Neighbors" by Cynthia Decker, three small grassy islands sit close together in a calm, endless blue sea. The nearest island holds a large, yellow wooden house with a steep, dark roof. It has a lookout on the roof with a small telescope, a fenced vegetable garden bursting with neat rows of crops, and a small dock where a rowboat is moored. The middle island is a waypoint; smaller, with a single windswept tree at its center. The farthest island features another cozy house with a worn brown roof, a small fenced pasture where several brown cows graze, and a wooden dock with it's own rowboat moored alongside. Bright soft sand edges each island like a frame, and the scene is lit with the clarity of a summer morning, the ocean a deep blue, the sand a bright ivory, and the grassy homesteads a vibrant green. The image was inspired by the phrase "good fences make good neighbors", and is about bridging the distances between us while still maintaining healthy boundaries.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This location at the Nature Center in Asheville still looks almost exactly this way, a year later. People a little ways east in Swannanoa, who got hit so hard, are still in need.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Oh please, we make fun of Trump's makeup too. And Vance's, and Hegseth's.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

clearly a "please don't tarriff computer components" solid gold bribe.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

They don't care about the victims. They only care about covering this all up to protect the powerful.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

This is exactly the type of civil disobedience we need to be doing all the time. Relentlessly, even.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Bifrost Bridge: A shimmering path stretches toward the rising light of Asgard. "Bellowing fires are rising and bells are ringing, Glory now taking us into Odin's great halls, Golden glimmering and cheerful sound of singing - This is divine Asgard's call!" —Excerpt from a poem by Paul Palazzolo

Bifrost Bridge by Cynthia Decker. A futuristic bridge stretches across calm, reflective water beneath a glowing galactic sky. The bridge is composed of symmetrical metal towers, each with intricate architectural details, and evenly spaced across the water like silent sentinels. In the distance, the bridge leads to a luminous stepped pyramid structure at the edge of a hazy cityscape, bathed in warm sunrise light. Above, a starry cosmos unfurls in vivid pinks and blues, with two massive planets hovering low over the horizon, one ringed and clouded like Jupiter, the other crescent-shaped. The entire scene is bathed in a surreal, tranquil atmosphere that is part dream, part myth.

This piece imagines a sci-fi version of the mythological Bifrost, the bridge between worlds. It’s about connection, awe, and the idea that the path to the divine might be made from steel and starlight.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

New Image: The Hoax It's kind of amazing what we can ignore when the road is clear and the sun is shining, but sooner or later the flood of evidence will be overwhelming.

In the image "The Hoax", by Cynthia Decker, a white vintage pickup truck (a Chevrolet Apache, to be precise) drives across a white stone bridge that spans calm turquoise water under a sky of cottony clouds. In the lower half of the image, beneath the water's surface, the scene transforms: the arches of the bridge stretch deep into the water, revealing a submerged town of crumbling buildings, crooked power lines, and forgotten streets. The underwater street is eerie and dim, now populated by fish and a few plants, a ghost town hidden beneath the illusion of calm. Above, everything is pristine and serene. Below, only ghostly remnants of what once was. The truck rolls forward, oblivious, as if the world beneath no longer matters. It's a comment on climate change, and on the cost of looking away too long.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

How does one swizzle without a stick?

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Look at that!! I made this 3D image about 12 years ago and now I get to see what it would look like alive!

In the image "Lantern Bearer" by Cynthia Decker, a woman rests on a fallen log over a pond in a misty forest. She holds a magic lantern, and is gently feeding light to a group of golden koi.

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I just tagged him 'cause those mushrooms are his art :D

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Curious3D @curious3d.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

So, Johnson's primary interest is carefully protecting pedophiles and sex traffickers. Got it.

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