iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Bluesky fail for me: because it’s so easy to follow tons of people and because there is no algorithm for making content reappear, any post gets buried within 30 seconds, never to be seen again, unless it’s a popular post that gets reposted. Ironically, #Bluesky rewards the major creators after all.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Is it only in Ohio that, when I apologize, people respond by commenting on my well-being? Also, how can they state with such confidence that I am, in fact, fine? #You’reFine #Satire #PretendingNotToGetIt

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Here is what could be called a floral arrangement. I used the fourth photo to make all of the others.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I liked the curves of this leaf with two beetles on it, and turned the whole thing into a kind of pinwheel shamrock.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This is one of several ways I played with a photo of an old-school card catalog; see the first image full size to see the little drawers.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Some blades of grass with droplets, which I folded and reflected and rotated into patterns. Four more in a comment.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Someone challenged me to make some digital art out of the first photo, even though it didn’t have any big shapes and a lot of the photo was blurry. Here’s a sample of how I responded; a few more images in a comment.

Unknown type of flowers sent by a friend for me to play around with digitally, it is a red flower whose petals are not yet opened, with a stone and some mulch and some other plants in the background out of focus

A pin meal pattern I made from a picture of an unopened flower

A square pattern made of multiple copies of a picture of a flower with a stone in the background
#DigitalArt #Mosaic #Pattern #Tile

A radially symmetric pattern made of eight copies of an unopened flower with some tendrils connecting. #Collage #Mosaic #DigitalArt #Pattern #Tile #Tiling

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This weekend amidst practical and mental tasks and social and athletic activities I took a moment to take a close look at the flower of the well-named “Ornamental” Onion.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Someone suggested that I make some of my “mosaic” art with a photo I took of a rocky beach at sunset.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Here I play around with a photo I took of seatback video screens on an airplane.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

In this turbulent time, l turned my attention away from crashing waves and undertow to focus on a little translucent shell amidst pebble-shaped sand… and then Imade patterns.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My wife is in Paris; remembering my last time there with her, I am pulling up this standard photo I took, and doing some non-standard stuff with it.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Predawn glimpse of an Ohio tree, Plus designs I made with a long series of reflections and rotations and one overlay. #Symmetry #Pattern #Solitary #Tree

Photo of a leafless tree taken before dawn, with dark blue sky at the top of the frame but orange along the horizon

Pinwheel pattern I made from a photo of a tree

Pattern with a diamond appearing to lay on top of a square , made with multiple copies of a tree on the horizon

Pattern made with copies of a tree on the horizon at Dawn, with a square at the center seeming to recede down a hallway

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Sometimes eople ask me what app I used to generate my digital art. Sigh. I have tried “kaleidoscope” apps, and it’s boring, there is no control over the details, no opportunity for expression. Taking time to meticulously crop, rotate, reflect, and assemble pieces is hard, but satisfying.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Today’s pattern, made from a how do I took in a previous season, of a flower such as I hope we will be seeing soon

Symmetrical pattern made from a photo of a tiny flower in the grass

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Random recent photo appreciating the quiet frosty hues and sharper lines of winter before the emergence and unfurling of many curves of color in spring.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

One day recently in a small city park, I embraced the mix of civilization and nature, captured the poles and wires and contrails instead of my usual practice of editing them out. #City #Nature #Urban #Rural #Wires #Civilization #Juxtaposition #Integration

A small stream bed and an urban park with a telephone pole and wires featured prominently the center

A scene from a narrow urban Park with two sets of wires and multiple contrails and rippled clouds all intersecting in the sky

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Friend of mine was making a drum and paused to take this photo he thought I could play around with.

Image of a drum being built, straps on the floor that were used to hold slats in place, some spikes sticking out,

Image I created from a photo of drum being built, lining up a couple of stripes on the drum in a way that creates an overall clover pattern

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Four views of the same tree I came across yesterday; which view and framing do you like best? #Pastoral #Rural #Tree #Grassland #Stream #Woods #Landscape #PhotoHour #Photography #Ohio #Solitary #Country #Midwest

Image of a lone tree on a low grassy ridge with a large woods in the background and a river on the right side leading toward the woods

Image of a single tree near fence in the midst of some low grassy ridges

Photo of a lone tree with a lot of grass in the foreground ground and some woods in the distant background

Photo of a solitary tree with some grassy areas around it and in the four round, and some woods on the right in the background, and a line of different kinds of clouds in the sky

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Hope you enjoy these previously unpublished variations of “mosaic” patterns I made from a photo I took of a hospital atrium. After some trial and error, it was satisfying to line things up just right to create the second image, making it look like two unrelated lines were extensions of each other.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Nighttime snow Brings morning signs Of early morning critters.

Animal tracks, maybe a squirrel, in a thin layer of snow

Another sample of Animal tracks, maybe a squirrel, in a thin layer of snow

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Two patterns I made from a photo of cracked pavement; I held the edge of my water bottle at the edge the frame to create possibilities like the second image. The original photo and one more variation in the comments. #SciArt #Patterns #Mosaic #Symmetry #DigitalArt

A pattern involving five large nearly circular octagons and four small ones, made from a photo of cracked pavement.

A symmetrical pattern of cracked pavement plus a large X in the center made from pieces of a photo of a water bottle

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

At a rehearsal held for the first time in an art space, I was challenged by a fellow singer to make some of my designs out of this display of a sculpture of two clown shoes. The second design includes bits of another work of art that was in the background.

Symmetrical design made from four copies of a picture of a sculpture of clown shoes on a white square pedestal.
#ClownShoes #DigitalArt #Mosaic #Pattern #Sculpture #Symmetry

Wallpaper repeating design from an original photo of two sculptures, one of clown shoes and another and abstract work that included some candles

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A view from behind an unnamed frozen waterfall formed in winter from (persistently!) flowing water diverted around the more well known (in Ohio anyway) Dundee Falls, when it gets frozen.

Of you that includes a rock overhang, from behind and underneath a frozen waterfall, showing ripples in the ice, some of the ice so thick as to form a shaded veil

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

As global warming spreads down from the poles, I am sad about flooded island nations, angry about sabotaged international cooperation (the world did ban CFCs and saved the ozone layer), but I also will miss more occasions to see peaceful gently falling fluffy snow. (My Wooster OH backyard today).

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In these times of upheaval, chaos, destruction, conflict, and fear, making and looking at this symmetrical layered pattern, with colors that seem to be a mix of fire and ice, feels heartening and soothing. [I made this design from an image I will post in a comment along with another design].

Design I created involving two nested squares of lights in a dark valley, filled in with images of a night sky including a curving path of moons.
Unlike most of my posts, the original image is not mine.
#DigitalArt #SciArt #Collage #Mosaic #Symmetry #Sky #NightSky #Moon #stars

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This little tripod of a stick was sitting there on the sidewalk, and it just called to me to collage it into some patterns. [I also love engaging with the subtle beige and gray shades of winter]. Let me know if you enjoyed one of these!

A banner pattern made of multiple copies of a picture of a tripod-shaped stick on the sidewalk, with shades of gray and tan in the background.

#Stick #Pattern #Wallpaper #Banner #SciArt #NaturalPattern #Collage #Mosaic #Symmetry

A pattern of nine large boxes and four small ones all arranged in pinwheels, made of multiple copies of a photo of a tripod-shaped stick on the sidewalk, with shades of gray and tan in the background.

#Stick #Pattern #Wallpaper #Banner #SciArt #NaturalPattern #Collage #Mosaic #Symmetry #OpticalIllusion #Pinwheel

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Yesterday I stepped out into a world that was a bit freezy-drippy. [Just in case you wanted some other imagery ither than the memory of the Kansas City Chiefs defense and receivers lumbering sluggishly after the first five minutes — I think the Gatorade was spiked with sedatives]

Icicles dripping from the thin branches of a serviceberry tree #Winter #icicles #Nature #Julie #Dripping

Closeup of Icicles dripping from the thin branches of a serviceberry tree

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A friend across the country sends me photos as a challenge to make my mosaic art out of them. Here are two of the pieces I made from his latest photo. I will post his original photo in a comment, and also post a comment with two more variations.

Beige and black pattern of squares embedded in a circle, made from a photo of some scraps of dried plants

Pattern of eight beige oval with a square, made from a photo of dried plant matter

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

When I play with images, collaging reflected and rotated pieces of a photo together, sometimes I make a kaleidoscope, but here I made wallpaper.

A wallpaper pattern, with some radiation symmetric red diamonds border by strips of tan and black, made from pieces of a photo I took in the supermarket of a basket full of red peppers.

Take digital art #Symmetry #Wallpaper #Kaleidoscope #Pattern #Geometry #Mosaic #Collage #DigitalArt #SciArt

A basket of red peppers in the supermarket that I used to make a variety of different patterns including the one included in this post. Looking back on this image, I’m thinking I should try again but use the flowers more!

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Sometimes I make patterns out of random photos I take; see if you can figure out my original subject, shown directly in the second photo.

Wallpaper pattern I made, with elements of radial symmetry, with blue squares and tan/gold diamonds. I made this photo by rotating and reflecting pieces of the other photo in this post.
#Reflections #Collage #DigitalArt #Patterns #Symmetry #SecretGeometry #Wallpaper

Photo I took of my pet leg and shoe in the car with some ray of some areas of the footwell and my leg lit up by the sun; I took this picture with the express purpose of turning it into digital art such as the piece I created in the other image.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My vibe this morning. This was my way of spending half of the free time created from the cancellation by my first client of the week; I actually almost walked into my office early and decided to head back out. I just missed capturing the shadow of someone’s arm waving in animated conversation.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

In the Charlotte airport during a layover, these arches seemed like good material for creating one of my designs.

Arches beside a walkway in the Charlotte airport

A radially symmetric design I made from a photo I took of arches beside a walkway in the Charlotte airport.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Another break from politics and also from my pattern images: Some of my photos of leafless trees reaching up for light, in the rain and fog and from across a field, two of these severely damaged yet growing, seemed to fit the mood

Leafless damaged tree beside the road on a rainy day

Leafless trees seen from across the field, reaching out to a partly cloudy sky

Leafless tree in the woods that was leaning severely to the left yet with branches reaching upward

Lone small tree on a hillside in the fog on one early morning, seen looking downhill from the Blue Ridge Parkway

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Politics break: Maybe anything could potentially become art, or at least a source of play. I admired the pattern on the side of someone else’s cleats at an Ultimate Frisbee game, and then played around a little bit with the shapes… OK, I’ll get back to natural beauty and forms soon…

A pair of cleats with an unusual pattern

Complex pattern that I constructed out of a photo of a pair of cleats

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Someone suggested posting a smaller number of images per set so they appear larger. Here’s an image I made, with a dozen steps of rotation, reflection, and collaging, from a photo (which I will post in a comment) of sunlight finding its way through trees and fog to shine on a spot of my lawn.

An image of stylized plus surrounded by four pointed stars, made from an image of sunlight finding its way through trees and fog to shine on a spot of my lawn.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

In the subtle shades of leafless winter winter, there is a lot of revealed natural beauty, but even the spread of road salt through cracks in the pavement can be worth admiring for the patterns it can help form, with a little reflecting and collaging. Hope you enjoy the pinwheels and wallpaper.

Road salt spreading through cracks in pavement

Pinwheel pattern I made from road salt spreading through cracks in pavement #SciArt #Cracks #Flow #Patterns #Diffusion #Pinwheel

pattern I made from road salt spreading through cracks in pavement #SciArt #Cracks #Flow #Patterns #Diffusion #Pinwheel

Wallpaper pattern I made from road salt spreading through cracks in pavement #SciArt #Cracks #Flow #Patterns #Diffusion #Pinwheel

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Ah, back to natural forms and a little bit of color. One of my favorite but hardest types of designs is a “pinwheel,” rotating the images rather than reversing them. It takes a lot of careful tweaking, cropping, and turning to get things to line up, trying to form one overall continuous pattern.

Pattern I made by rotating and lining up for pieces of a photo of the branches of a tall hedge.

#Mosaic #DigitalArt #Pinwheel #SciArt

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I preferred to do my “mosaic” digital artwork with colors and curves and natural forms, but when a friend challenges me to make a design from a bleak grey mundane scene full of unnatural lines, I decide to see what I can do. In comments, I’ll post a key intermediate step in my process.

Photo take from under some construction scaffolding on a street in Seattle.

Pattern I made from a photo taken from under some construction scaffolding on a street in Seattle.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

OK, I just figured out how to post videos here, so here is a snowdrifting scene you might enjoy from my soon-inaccessible-maybe TikTok page full of relaxing nature videos.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

One day, the whole sky seemed to have a branching spine. That evening, I reflected and folded and turned and collaged what I saw, into increasingly complex mosaics, using that feathery skyquill as a paintbrush to form some patterns. I hope you enjoy this sample!

A diagonal line of branching vapor across the sky. #Sky #SkyPorn #Science #Patterns #PatternsInNature #SciArt

Some digital art I made, in this case with a narrow diamond at the center, from a photo I took of a diagonal line of branching vapor across the sky. #Sky #SkyPorn #Science #Patterns #PatternsInNature #SciArt

Some digital art I made, from a photo I took of a diagonal line of branching vapor across the sky, in this case for copies of another pattern I made, cropped so that parts of the lineup to form a larger wallpaper pattern. #Sky #SkyPorn #Science #Patterns #PatternsInNature #SciArt #Mosaic

Some digital art I made, from a photo I took of a diagonal line of branching vapor across the sky, in this case grid of nine pieces I made, cropped and rotated so that parts of the pieces line up to form a larger wallpaper pattern. #Sky #SkyPorn #Science #Patterns #PatternsInNature #SciArt #Mosaic

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

You ever see a leaf, a stick, a rock, that you intuitively liked because of its shape? Here’s a stick in the grass that I thought I would enjoy turning into some digital art. Hope you enjoy it too! #SciArt #NaturalPatterns #PatternsInNature #NaturalForms #DigitalArt #stick #nature #Symmetry

Pinwheel pattern I made using the shape of a stick in the grass. #SciArt #NaturalPatterns #PatternsInNature #NaturalForms

Symmetrical pattern I made using the shape of a stick in the grass. #SciArt #NaturalPatterns #PatternsInNature #NaturalForms

Kaleidoscopic pattern I made using the shape of a stick in the grass. #SciArt #NaturalPatterns #PatternsInNature #NaturalForms

pattern I made using the shape of a stick in the grass. #SciArt #NaturalPatterns #PatternsInNature #NaturalForms

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Another set of images from what I call “mosaic” or “block patterns,” focusing for now on my use of my nature photography so that this might be considered #SciArt; I also make designs out my photos of a mix of natural and man-made structures (scroll back to see one made from a Paris Street scene).

A blending of two photos of a flowering tree, one of them flipped so that the branches sort of lineup and make one flowing pattern. #SciArt #pattern #Nature #Tree #NaturalForms

Symmetrical pattern made from one piece of a photo of a flowering tree. #SciArt #pattern #Nature #Tree #NaturalForms

Repeated wallpaper pattern made from a photo of a flowering tree. #SciArt #pattern #Nature #Tree #NaturalForms

Radially symmetric pattern suggesting circles, made from a photo of a flowering tree (possibly a Bradford Pear, now banned from new plantings in Ohio). #SciArt #pattern #Nature #Tree #NaturalForms

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Let’s see if there is more interest in my #SciArt, my “mosaics,” made by rotating, reflecting, and collaging my nature photography. I enjoy nature’s patterns and like to play with them! In this case, I started with a neighbor’s oak tree lit up by street lights…

Digital art made from a photo of an oak tree lit up by street lights…

Digital art in the shape of an ornate Greek Cross, made from a photo of an oak tree lit up by street lights… #SciArt

Wallpaper pattern made from a photo of an oak tree lit up by street lights… #SciArt

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Good to see that the strawberry fields around Chernobyl are thriving, kept warm by the radiation… [But seriously, these are from Mexico. Get more before the tariffs kick in!]

Image of a strawberry so large it spans across all four of my fingers

Image of another strawberry so large it spans across all four of my fingers

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Recently went back to north suburban NJ where I grew up. It’s hard to explain to Ohio folks how tall the trees can be in much older neighborhoods. The first tree is catching the sunset light. The base of one of the second trees spreads six feet wide, engulfing a fence.

Tree in winter with its branches lit up with the redness of sunset

Tall tree in a suburban neighborhood in New Jersey

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Delight part 1: Next to me in a coffee shop as I was reading and sipping a chai latte, a mom and her sister were watching a toddler wander gradually farther and farther away, looking back to check in with the mom, and then when the toddler walked around the corner, the mom calmly picked up her kid.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

In case you said anybody randomly needed to see a sunset over the St. Mary’s river in Michigan… The warm glow just felt right to select with cold and snow outside today, even though I also appreciate the subtle shades of winter.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Came across this photo too late to add to a contest last week of fog and mist for @stormhour.bsky.social , but I hope someone will see it here and enjoy it. Taken just before sunrise within walking distance of my house in Wooster Ohio.

Photo of some low lying misty fog going down into a small ravine at sunrise

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Whoa, there is interest in my “mosaic” digital art! Okay, here’s another set, made from a photo of a hospital atrium/lobby. I usually make about 30 variations, it’s so hard to pick just 4 (IG allows up to 20 images per post now)! Made by rotating, reflecting, cropping, and collaging.

Patterned image made by collaging pieces of a photo of a hospital lobby

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