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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Small #strides in #creative life, apace with full-time #caregiving. Current #whimsy piece: graphite (drawing), watercolor pencils (mostly used), & gouache (least used). Steps detailed in ALT text. #BskyArt. #MixedMedia on #Paper.

Expanded silver gouache from lower background to all the background.

Also drew a large owl in the left upper segment.

Donuts along bottom portion. Owlets sitting along a branch in the middle and at the edge of a tree hole.

This stage shows the painted frame: a thorny vine (brown), sparsely leafed (green).

This is a 3rd piece in a whimsy series featuring owls, donuts, & trees.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

#Sky #Beauty& #Water wonder on #EarthDay, 23 April 2025 at #LunaPier (Southeast #Michigan) on #LakeErie. #Art is life.

A sky with shapely cloud forms, backlit by sun, blue sky as background, floating above a still surface of lake water.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A 3rd piece in-progress from a new series of #whimsy featuring #Owls, #donuts, & #trees. #MixedMedia. So far #WatercolorPencil, #gouache, & #graphite. On sourced #BananaTree paper by women artisans of #Peru. #BskyArt.

Earliest stage with graphite drawing & some watercolor pencil.

Step 2 photo: with wetted watercolor pencil over graphite drawing, & some gouache (lower section, select donuts).

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

More #whimsy work! Watercolor pencil, gouache, & graphite on thin mixed-media paper. 11 April. #BskyArt. An Eastern screech #owl peers from the center of a bright blue & sprinkles #donut. Hear about #Silver in the detail picture below. See ALT text for more. #Art is a way to live. #SoberSky.

An owl peers from a bright blue & sprinkles donut. The owl is modeled after the Eastern screech owl.

The donut feels to be afloat above a landscape, or perhaps atop a water body (navy blue).

A full moon glows in the upper left corner. A pattern of stars extends in most of the upper portion, right of the moon.

Lower left & lower right are trees growing from high places, absent shrubs or grass.

Detail of a tree for highlighting the silver gouache used throughout
the piece. Silver carpets the starscape, delineates sections of the work, & outlines tree branches.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Finished my #whimsy piece, ~ 9" x 13"! 1 large tree, leafless branches donning donuts. An owl peers from a trunk hollow, while water flows over rocks at the base. Plus a detail pic here of new #MixedMedia, the center ~ 5" x 6.5". An owl looks out from a blue & sprinkles donut. #BskyArt.

1 large tree, its leafless branches donning donut. An owl peers from a trunk hollow, while water flows over rocks at the base.

An owl looks out from a blue & sprinkles donut.

Ink, watercolor pencil, & graphite.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

On #April5, sending #courage & #care. My intention & #prayer is that #ThePeople prevail & #Empire crumble, that #PowerWith overcomes #PowerOver. Sharing here my #MixedMedia work, #Power, (2023): 2 abstract figures wield energy, moving with light & shadow. Charcoal, pastels, graphite. #BskyArt.

Sharing here my #MixedMedia work, #Power, (2023): 2 abstract figures wield energy, moving with light & shadow. Charcoal, pastels, graphite.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm recalling moments of #uplift in recent weeks. This #reclamation is to carry me through spells that range from uncertain to upending. #Grateful for Spring buds seen while visiting #Cambridge MA, & for cooking dishes that fed a table of travelers. #Joy often is a practice of choice.

A dish of gnocchi mixed with pesto & grated asiago.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Fun to bring forward #Whimsy after a different long-term work. Donuts are the curiosity. The owl was a surprise in this first round. This version is still dry with graphite & watercolor pencil. #VisualArt. #BskyArt.

A leafless tree with hardy branches. Water flows at the roots & over stones. An owl peers out from a trunk hole. Colorful donuts don the branches.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Ready for #whimsy! A new & playful piece on #MixedMedia paper. Graphite & watercolor pencil so far. #BskyArt. In lieu of ALT Text: Depicts a leafless tree with hardy branches. An owl peers out from a trunk hole/ hollow. Water flows at the roots & around rocks. Colorful donuts don the branches.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Details of my finished #triptych, #Breakthrough. The left image is taken at an angle to show the #3D surface. The right image focuses on varied patterns with #fiber. #BskyArt.

This detail is taken of the right panel. The angle show its 3D contours.

Mounds are shaped distinctly by color ranges & layered materials.

The rightmost mound from its lowest point (lower right corner) is constructed with yellow inked paper at its outer edges, & metallic copper yarn as its inner base.

Atop this base are threads of embroidery floss, ranging yellow to goldenrod, that affix discs of gold metal beads.

This detail is from the right panel, its left top corner. The focus here being patterns of fiber.

Most white sections are embroidered through the thin board. The material is alpaca yarn.

The braid-like curve of marigold, orange, red-orange, & copper are fibers of yarn (final) & embroidery floss (all the former).

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

#Breakthrough, a #triptych . As good as done March 23! An on&off, 2-year work. Mostly made in #Maine & #Michigan; also in #NaplesItaly & #Massachusetts. #3D & #MixedMedia. Fiber, paper, altered images, found objects, metal & glass beads, gouache, ink, oil pastel. #BskyArt

Multi colors, textures, & patterns arranged to convey movement. A main direction is from below to above the surface.

Three hands of different colors & sizes are shown in varies poses. Around the hands are glacial views of ice floes, between islands if color.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Progress post of February 19th, on my #MixedMedia triptych titled #Breakthrough. Here's the central panel (1st image) with details of beads & fiber. Getting near completion after 2 years of on-and-off stages! #VisualArts #BskyArt

Central panel of triptych Breakthrough. Abstract forms move above & around 2 hand figures.

One figure is an arm outstretched upward & with its hand open. The open hand lays over the 2nd figure -- a larger hand reaching downward.

Detail of beadwork in shades of green. The seed beads were strung with embroidery floss. Floss threads also are along surfaces between beads & the edges of abstract forms .

Green seed beads again with embroidery floss (see other detail image). Strung & arranged within contours of abstract shapes

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A sign of #hope & Northern #spring. This big, fluffy #robin knocked down a berry from a tree. Finding fruit in the deep winter. #LewistonMaine

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

What's your #cutest moment from the week?? Mine is a photo of my #RescueDogs cuddling on the couch. When they noodle like so, I just simply glow!

2 dogs laying on a couch, both looking at the camera.

The dog above is resting its head on the side of the neck of the other canine.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#ArtIsBalm. Aiming to share my lived #ArtEncounters that have brought me #Peace, #Joy, #Hope, #Awe, #Delight, &/or #Wonderment. . Original photo of Untitled (Abstract), oil painting, 1972. #NenaSaguil (Filipina), 1st presentation at #VeniceArtsBiennale, 2025. #VisualArt #ArtIsLife #BeautyIsBalm

Abstract painting as a circle and layered by many circular shapes that vary size-wise & by color.

Also inlaid circles, so that circles are visible in part to entirety. The effect implies movement -- swirling around, as well as forward & backward.

The use of white ranges in opacity, lessened when overlapping another color.

Lavender to mauve are in the background, and range from translucent to opaque.

Opaque uses of black, burgundy, black, soft medium blue.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In-progress post on my #MixedMedia triptych titled #Breakthrough. Detail images from the top sections of 2 panels from February 5. Fiber, metal beads, paper, gouache, ink, oil pastel, found images & objects. See ALT text for more. #BskyArt

Top section of the right panel. A metal heart with clear rhinestone atop layers of fiber. Fiber is embroidery floss & yarn. Multiple shades of marigold, orange, copper.

Top section of the center panel. Focused here on an arc formed by gold metal beads and fiber.

The fiber is placed as if in motion -- in curves & overlapping, plus lifting off the surface periodically. Colors of the fiber are marigold, varied oranges, & brown.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

See my invitation to the #Recovery community, #SoberSky. Also to #CreativeCommunity, #bskyart. Especially those of us in both!! Here's a photo from my aerial view of #MDI #MtDesertIsland yesterday. #Northeast beauty. #Maine is home.

Mt. Desert Island from a low-flying plane. Original photo. Snow covered mountains & pine trees, & a couple of frozen lakes . There's a clear blue sky atop.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#MixedMedia triptych in-progress, #Breakthrough. January 27. Now working the top sections of central & right panels. See ALT text. This is a 3D surface, varying textures & depths. Found images are transformed by layers, multi-panel patterns, & diverse media. #BskyArt #VisualArts

Working along top sections of central & right panels.

For the mid-panel top, an arc with fiber & metal beads. Colors: marigold, brown, copper & deep orange.

For the right-panel top, also fiber & metal beads plus paper & a found object. That object is metal jewelry shaped as a heart, & has a rhinestone. Colors: copper, golds, yellows, orange.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

What's something good from your weekend?? My #ElderParent who lives with #dementia agreed to volunteer together at a local thrift. It's a nonprofit supporting people with #SubstanceAbuseDisorder. We cleared 3 tubs & made a pretty space! #LewistonMaine #AngelsWing #SoberSky #BetterTogether

3 shelves of neatly arranged bags-- luggage to purses,& totes to collapsible storage.

Upper right corner exceptionally are natural fiber baskets.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

#Artforliving #bskyart Keeping on the creative path. In-progress: triptych, Breakthrough; timestamp, January 22. See ALT text for image details. Love #mixedmedia !

Detail image from left & center panels.

Focusing here on 3 hands -- 2 appearing on the right, & a 3rd to the left.

Fiber, gouache, ink, beads, oil pastel, paper, found text & object.

Vibrant colors. The left hand is a both deep& bright golden yellow -- marigold.

The 2 hands to the right are altered from a vintage page of National Geographic.

Detail of 1 of 3 hands in the piece. Layering embroidery floss atop of gouache. The color is marigold.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

#FullMoon blessings. #BringOn peace, truth, & joy for 2025. Photo is en route due East toward Atlantic coast, in the #Northeast of #TurtleIsland. The moon shines in a darkening blue sky. In the lower right edge are treetops -- leafless & also needled. Late afternoon January 12th.

The moon shines in a darkening blue sky. In the lower right edge are treetops -- leafless & also needled.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Jan 8th progress post: my #mixedmedia triptych, Breakthrough. Fiber + paper, gouache + ink, beads + found poem. Details from central & right panels; more in ALT text. #bskyart

Detail photo from central panel, upper half.
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Focusing on the upper arc of ridged & round metal beads, moving from left to right across the panel & downward.

Each bead in the arc has an open center.

From all centers is embroidery floss of brown & dark orange spread in varied directions (over, beneath, & around the rounded ridges).
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In the photo's upper right corner, found text is the bottom layer.

Black & white alternates in the text & its background.

Atop of the text is a metal bead with embroidery floss of shades from orange to gold.

The floss threads are fanned upward toward the panel's right corner.

A mixture of yarn -- goldenrod to copper -- encircles most of the text.

The yarn is densely affixed up to the panel's right corner.

The lowest ridge of the found text is closet to the arc of ridged & round metal beads.

Detail from the right panel, focusing a found poem.

The original text is at the base from a vintage NatGeo page.

The poem is from words on the NatGeo page.

Text is written in blank ink on light-peach mat board.

Atop of the mag -page "base" is canvas. Notice the grid texture visible on left side.

The canvas is inked orange, yellow, light blue, & varied greens.

Now I'm layering mostly embroidery floss of corresponding colors atop of the inked canvas. (Note the threads that are placed to flow.)

A few metal beads are affixed with the floss.

Some yarn also is affixed over canvas.

A closer details from the right panel, portion of the found poem.

See previous photo for details (2nd photo). There find info on materials & technique.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Celebrating the brilliant life of the late #AndreaSkywalker , who would be 74 years, though died October 2020. A musician, a poet, a chaplain, & a compassionate soul dedicated to a Buddhist path. #ShineOn, dear Andrea! Born in #BerlinGermany; died in #EverettWashington.

Lady with a bass, dressed in brightly colored garments. Standing in her living room with next to a large floor amp.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Continued progress on my #mixedmedia triptych, #Breakthrough! In this photo share, there are 2 detail images, plus the entire work as of December 24. See ALT toggle/ text for details. #artsforlife #creativeliving

Detail from the right panel. Media are fabric, paper, ink, gouache, oil pastel.

Paper is sculpted in curved forms -- from many small pieces arranged densely, to more widely placed segments.

Embroidery floss & yarn also is portioned into small portions. Fiber is interspersed between paper sculpting. Yarn is loosened as fuzzy to fluffy. Floss flows are open edges.

Facing details from center panel (shown here on the left) & right panel. Yellow to orange colors the focus here.

See previous image ALT text for details of media & placement.

All 3 panels.

Background includes a watery icy scene in the left & right panels.

The center panel figures 2 hands: a human outstretched hand lays atop a large statuary hand.

The mixed media alters pages from vintage National Geographic (magazine).

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Bleu (longer ears, white face & ginger torso) & Pickles (cropped ears, single-shade of fur)) live with me on #Wabanakilands in #LewistonMaine. My #rescuedogs, aka #lovebugs.

Black & white portrait with background blurred. The dog pair are spooning.

In the center is Bleu, with his chest upright & being pet. To the left is Pickles, her right side curved toward Bleu.

Bleu looks at the camera. Portrait with blurred background.

His eyes are two toned, and his name comes from icy-blue irises.

His paws are forward stretches in parallel. His long ears are darker at the tips. His nose is black.

Pickles sleeping under a blanket. Her pink tongue til sticks out.

Her fur is champagne (lighter beige) and nose is brown.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have influenced you. 1 book / day for 20 days, in no order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 12 of 20 #FourSouls #LouiseErdrich #IndigenousAuthors #fiction

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have influenced you. 1 book / day for 20 days, in no order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 11 of 20 #TheVolcanoLover #SusanSontag #fiction

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Progress update of December 15, 2024, from my #mixedmedia triptych, #Breakthrough. #bskyart The 1st photo is with all the panels. The 2nd image is the central panel. The final pair are detail photos. Find descriptions in ALT toggles.

In-progress triptych, #Breakthrough, by #MeyHasbrook. Fiber, paper, wet & dry media, metal beads, found objects.

Backgrounds are vintage #NatGeo images altered with #mixedmedia. Techniques of #collage, #papersculpting, & #bookart to affix objects.

#bskyart

Middle panel of the in-progress triptych #Breakthrough by #MeyHasbrook. (Version prior to the 3-panel accompanying photo.)

The found #NatGeo background centers 2 hands. A human arm with dark skin is up-stretched with its hand atop a statuary hand.

Fingers of the latter are pointing downward; this coloring is a faint, light green.

The very top section is gold coloring with gouache. Above the statuary hand is silver gouache.

The silver band widely arcs across the page, connecting between shapes that are mostly curvy & some pointed.

Bright colors make up tte curvy& pointed shapes. The forms appear to be in motion or swirling.

Found text appears along the human forearm & hand, all together reading "Break through".

In the upper right corner, found & written text is layered beneath a metal bead & fanned-out fibers.

There are concentrations of fiber amassed along the very bottom & centered above the hands.

#bskyart

Detail from central panel, of its lower left corner pointed diagonally toward the center.

Visualizes the 3D contours of fiber & metal beads along the piece's surface.

Details of media are found in photo #2 of the entire central panel

#Breakthrough #MeyHasbrook #bskyart

Detail from left panel of #Breakthrough, in-progress triptych by #MeyHasbrook .

Visualizes 3D contours of paper, fiber, & metal beads along the surface.

Overlapping media colors range from wheat to bright orange, cornflower to deep copper, sunflower to spring green.

#bskyart

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have influenced you. 1 book / day for 20 days, in no order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 10 of 20 #HindsFeetOnHighPlaces #HannahHurnard #allegory

Two deer atop a brown-shaded, sheer-faced cliff. One has antlers.

Purple shaded sky-- for above & background -- plus green trees at the bottom

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My love-bug rescues. Pickles is sitting up (background) while Bleu is curled up (foreground). Their attention is rapt on my sharing popcorn

Two dogs on a couch. The one sitting up is behind the one with legs down, curled forward.

Both are wearing harnasses. The one in the front has long ears that are flopped down. The one in the back has cropped ears that are turned to hear best from me.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A schedule for City Hall with building hours listed in multiple languages, row -by-row . #iloveLewiston #LewistonMaine #TheLeW

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Northern winter holiday cheer from #LewistonMaine #TheLeW!! Festive gear at #FransRestaurant. Tasty options for #glutenfree/ #gf & #vegetarian / #veggie. See ALT description about image.

A (northern) winter holiday decoration. A gnome figure with arms outreached from a pot or bowl. Winter hat topped by a plush (snow)ball & wrapped with a scarf. Written in the rounded exterior is "WELCOME Friends"

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have influenced you. 1 book / day for 20 days, in no order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 7, 8 & 9 of 20 #OctaviaButler #LilithsBroodSeries #Dawn #AdulthoodRites #Imago

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have influenced you. 1 book / day for 20 days, in no order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 6 of 20 A Testimony to the Grace of God as Shown in the Life of #JamesNayler By #DorothyNimmo #epicpoem #QuakerHistory #femenistlens

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 5 of 20 #HorsesMakesaLandscapeLookMoreBeautiful #poetry #AliceWalker #BIPOCAuthors

Cover for the poetry collection by Alice Walker, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 4 of 20 #Storyteller #LeslieMarmonSilko #IndigenousAuthors #ethnopoetics #archivalphotography

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In my home, flying the flag/ mantra Be Who You Are a la @jonbatiste.bsky.social --virtuoso & inspired cultural worker 🙌

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My rescue pups: A pair of seniors snuggling. Sleepy picture from mid-November in Maine. The beige-ish dog is in the foreground. Her name is Pickles, a "senior" senior at 13 years minimum. The ginger and white dog is in the background. His name is Bleu, a "junior" senior at 8 years minimum.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

related sentiments from Fred Rogers: "What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then."

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 3 of 20 #achorusofstones #theprivatelifeofwar #susangriffin #feminist #disjunctivewriting

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

‪Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 2 of 20 #borderlandslafrontera #thenewmestiza #gloriaanzaldua

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

"Breakthrough", my in-progress, mixed-media triptych. Here shown is the left panel. Details of the upper left corner, front & backside. Image descriptions forthcoming; see Alt. #bskyart #mixedmedia #junbalm

Left panel in full.

Media are varied fibers & papers, oil pastel, ink, gouache, metal beads.

Background is a vintage, found image from National Geographic.

Detail from upper left corner (left panel). Focusing here on the outer edge.

Using fibers to bob in-&-out (or front-to-back) of the surface.

Loosely braiding -- and also separating-- threads of embroidery floss (used for most colors) & yarn (only thicker, "rusty" copper).

Backside detail of the front's upper left corner.

Holes created from the front side allowed fibers to bob in-&-out (or back-to-front)

Paper segments adheres to hold threads from the backside, which allows a looser shape in placement on frontside.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My work #bskyart . I will add images as able to this thread. Each piece's detsils are provided in the Alt descriptions. This 1st piece is "Sweet Spot", abstract gouache on sourced handmade paper.

"Sweet Spot" by Mey Hasbrook is an abstract gouache work on sourced, handmade paper. Colors are varied shades of blue & gold; often colors are layered. Shapes are organically painted to appear moving. Rounded, curved, and arched are ways to describe the forms.

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