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Titled Lies Sidway from my Into the Dark collection, 2025. Inspired by an Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) photograph of a Crow man, Lies Sideway, from1908. In my treatment the main character displays the spirit of someone important in his life.

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Titled Strong for the People from my Still There collection, 2023. My inspiration was a photo of Penahwenonmi (Helping Another, 1840-1938), a survivor of the Nez Perce War (1877).She and the Nez Perce call themselves Nimíipuu (the Real People). Nez Perce women were active participants in the war.

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Titled Cabbage from my Glass Iris collection, 2025. Flowers aren’t often my inspiration – this is especially true of irises. By pushing the imagery around I may have turned y iris into a Cabbage.

Titled Viola from my Glass Iris collection, 2025. Flowers aren’t often my inspiration… but here you go, I’m a phytologist. Viola is Latin for violet.

GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Ten of my recent BluSky art listings with assorted themes: Wounded Knee, artist friends, Dante’s Inferno, an Italian dark forest, French Romantics, Greek Bulls, silent movie stars, Indigenous spirits, and spirt portals.

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Titled Wounded Knee from my I’m a Better Artist than You collection, 2022. Inspired by one of my best artist friends [that I’ve never met]. In my mind the image presents an American Indian spirit figure, a ghost dancer. The Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec 1890) killed 250 Lakota men, women and children.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Titled Homeland from my I’m a Better Artist than You collection, 2022. Inspired by one of my best artist friends [that I’ve never met].

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Titled Dis from my Selva Oscura [Italian: Dark Forest] collection, 2025. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno, the narrative poem by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). At the end Dante finds the Devil at the bottom of the last of 9 levels of Hell. Dis is the Roman name for the underground god.

GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Titled Bice from my Selva Oscura [Italian: Dark Forest] collection, 2025. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno, the narrative poem by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Bice or Beatrice, is a symbol of Divine Love and is an important female character in Dante’s works [and real life].

GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

An older BluSky post that I thought needed a few more eyes. Titled Reflection from my Mujer de Arenisca collection, 2024. Mujer de Arenisca is Sandstone Woman in Spanish. Piece was inspired by the art of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823), a French Romantic painter and draughtsman.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

A BluSky repost for Greek Moothology fans. Titled Pasiphaë from my Bouillon Cubes collection, 2025. Pasiphaë, wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur monster. Minos insulted Posiden’s gift of a white bull, the god caused Pasiphaë to fall in love with the bull resulting in the monster.

Titled The Great Lover from my Silent Men collection, 2024. Inspired by a publicity photo of American film actor, John [Jack] Gilbert (1897–1936). He rose to fame during the silent era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover." Jack’s career declined with Talkies and alcohol.

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Titled Blusa Amarilla [Spanish: Yellow Blouse] from my De Larva Reali [Italian: From Royal Larvae] collection, 2024. Inspired by an early publicity photo of American actress, Joan Crawford (1904–1977). Her career started as a dancer, then to Broadway, then movies and then top box office movies.

Titled Tobe Spirit from my Portals collection, 2025. The piece depicts an American Indian, a “spirit to be”, a ghost, waiting in a Chaco Canyon Purgatory. At the back of the rooms is a doorway/portal to another level of the underworld, but the ghost subject must wait until the right time comes.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Titled Lucy from my Portals collection, 2025. Inspired by an 1899 photo of an Oglala woman, Lucy Red Cloud Afraid of Horse (1881-1938). She seems to have spent her life in South Dakota. I’ve made Lucy a guide at the entrance to a portal to the Underworld.

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Four of my recent BluSky art listings: A Chavin Spider. A fanciful SR-71, Blackbird. stack of Centipedes. A Human Skull.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My recent BluSky art listings with an Indigenous American theme: Standing Bear & habeas corpus. Omaha Dancer. Ada Blackjack & Wrangel Island (north of Siberia). Death at the Carlisle Indian School. Six on the Bear. Benjamin Damon (Diné).

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Titled Standing Bear from my Out of the Dark collection, 2024. Inspired by a photo from about 1898 of Standing Bear (1829–1908), a Ponca chief who successfully argued in the U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans have the right of habeas corpus -- sounds like current events.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Titled Omaha Dancer from my Out of the Dark collection, 2024. Inspired by a photo by Frank Rinehart (1861-1928) from the 1898 Indian Congress [in conjunction with Trans-Mississippi International Exposition]. The Congress was the largest gathering of American Indian tribes of its kind to that date.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This is a repost of 4 of my earlier BlueSky art posts – maybe abstracts, but the images originate from real objects. 1) History, an Isthmian gold Royal Flycatcher; 2) Trompeta del Jaguar, a Moche ceramic horn; 3) Seventh Heaven, an Aztec god; and 4) After Icarus, constructed from crushed auto cubes.

GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Titled Punishment from my Artic Hero series, 2025. Ada Blackjack (1898–1983), an Iñupiaq on an all white male expedition to Wrangel Island, north of Siberia. She was treated poorly by the other members [to include being tied to a flagpole] - but Ada and a pet cat were the only expedition survivors.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Titled Tomiclock from my Alaska collection, 2025. In 1897 six children from AK traveled 5,000 to The Carlisle Indian School in PA - Tomiclock was one of them, an Iñupiaq. Of the six, 3 died at Carlisle and only one ever returned to AK. Tomiclock died a 15 year old “Eskimo” girl at Carlisle.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Titled Spider Spirit from my Mensajes Antiguos (Spanish = Old Messages) collection, 2025. Inspired by a gold Inca Spider (1432-1572). The Inca evolved out of the Cupisnique and Chavin cultures who worshipped spider qualities. Spiders, associated with rain, come out of hiding before it rains.

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Titled Blackbird from my UFOs collection, 2025. Modeled on the SR71, a retired long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft. In the Army, 55 years ago, I was in a Top Secret class about the real SR-71 - we could only use photos of it from TIME magazine. My jet is fanciful (maybe).

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Titled Cold Blue from my Six on the Bear collection, 2022. Image depicts 6 Indigenous Alaskan students on a ship (The Bear) headed for someplace called Pennsylvania and the Carlisle Indian School, 5,000 miles away in 1897. Three died at Carlisle and only Emma Esenetuck ever returned to Alaska.

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Titled Trystine from my Defiance collection, 2022. Inspired by Benjamin Damon (1866 - 1933), a student at the Carlisle Indian School. Sent to the school, he returned to his Diné (Navajo) people. He became neither Indian or white but someone in between. Trystine is a variety of purple/yellow quartz.

Titled Chilopoda from my Bugs collection, 2025. Centipedes are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda. My image is a stack of centipedes - find the coiled one at the top from which the stack was built. Thousands of feet tall.

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Titled 22 Bones from my Skulpture Garden collection, 2025. The human skull has 22 bones – feel around your own head and try to find them.

GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My Recent BlueSky art posts of many subjects: Abstractions, Family Photos, Rib Cages, X-Rays, Indigenous Masks, an Indigenous Woman Doctor, a Ziegfeld Girl, the Three Stooges, Seascapes, a Cat, Antient Music, an Edward Curtis Girl, a Moth, Douglas Fairbanks (Sr), Clint Eastwood, and a Ptolemaic Owl.

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Titled Mummy Cat from my Old Stones collection, 2025. Many cats are on BlueSky, so I thought I should have one (I’m a dog fan). My cat is a 2,200 year old statuette intended to contain a mummified cat. The statue is from the Ptolemaic Period (Egypt, 332–30 BC).

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Titled Iron Eye's Apple from my Shaman on You collection, 2024. A tribute to Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865–1915), widely acknowledged as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree. Her father was Iron Eye, an Omaha tribal leader – Susan must have been the apple of his eye.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Titled Z. Follies from my Held collection, 2024. Inspired by Anna Held (1872-1918), a Polish-born French stage performer. Florenz Ziegfeld (Ziegfeld Follies) found her and brought her to America as his common-law wife. In her time, she was one of Broadway's most celebrated leading ladies.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Titled Celestial Orientator from my Bugs collection, 2025. It is thought that nocturnal moths orient themselves to the light from celestial bodies - because of this they get attracted to and confused around artificial lights [maybe]. A small moth on the top tier of the piece models the other shapes.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

An early BlueSky post of my art that deserves a few more views. Titled Falling Off the Roof from the Silent Men collection, 2024. Inspired by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; 1883–1939), an American swashbuckling actor and a filmmaker. Fairbanks was "The King of Hollywood".

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Seven reposts of my art with a bone theme. 5.) Marrow, a rib cage. 6.) Henry VIII, a knee x-ray. 7.) Blue Mammut, a prehistoric elephant skull. 8.) Netsuke, human skulls making a button. 9.) Auster, giraffe skulls. 10.) Tureen, human skulls. And 11.) Blue Ray, the Three Stooges.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is a repost of 4 of my BlueSky art posts. 1) Red & Green, Mystery woman’s hands and face. 2) Impression, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), a great Impressionist painter. 3) Tea Ceremony, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) another great artist. 4. Falconer, director/screenwriter/actor, John Huston (1906–87).

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Titled Out Over the Pacific from my Atardecer collection, 2025. Tried my hand at a Mexican sunset from the beach. Atardecer is Spanish for sunset.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Titled Foam from my 5 Mar 25 collection, 2025. Back in early March I was on the beach here in Mexico [hoping to still see some whales]. Good sun, no whales, but I did study the waves crashing onto the beach.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Titled Mosa from my Into the Dark collection, 2025. My inspiration came from a 1903 photo from Edward Curtis (1868–1952). Curtis also titled his photo Mosa [I assume her name], a young girl from the Mohave, a Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Titled Mona with No Name from my Five Easy Pieces collection, 2024. Inspired by director Sergio Leone (1929–1989) and his Dollars Trilogy of Italian Spaghetti Westerns from the mid 1960s. The films' Antihero, Clint Eastwood (1930-) & Mona Lisa create an odd combo of Italian subjects for this piece.

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Titled Lithophone from my Shaman on You collection, 2024. Inspired by the earliest human musicians who used stones and fly swatters. A Lithophone is a stone being struck instrument – early uses were probably more for ceremonial purposes than for entertainment. Anyway, Rock On!

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I’ve been working with American Indian images, but I’m aware that I’m a white man. My quest has been to discover Indian aesthetics and to tell my version of others’ stories. I follow my own spirits in my art, but I don’t want to offend any Indigenous peoples, past or present – if I do, tell me.

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Titled Kansa from my Makes Me Nobody collection, 2022. My great grandfather was in the Civil War (North) and afterwards stayed in the U.S. Army and went to Forts Gibson and Smith in Indian territory. This image shows my GGF and my GF. By all accounts my GGF was a good guy to Immigrants and Indians.

The Kaw Nation (or Kanza or Kansa) is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Titled Calder III from my Snake Pit collection, 2025. A nod to artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976).

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American Indian subjects for my art originated with the Carlisle Indian School and expanded to related topics. Here are four early BlueSky posts of my art that might need a few more eyes. 5. Odawa (Ottawa) Man. 6. Angel De Cora (1871–1919). 7. Sitting Bull (1834-90) 8. Black Buffalo Woman (1846=71).

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My subject matter originated with the Carlisle Indian School and expanded to related Indigenous American topics. Here are early BlueSky posts of my art that might need a few more views. 1. Black Elk (c1868-1950). 2. Lakota Leader Shirt. 3. Whitebear (1937–2000). 4. Ruth Muskrat Bronson (1897–1982).