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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great Plains Home A 4”x10” collage of magazine and dictionary pages on hand-painted paper. A small bouquet I made to welcome a new neighbor. #collageart #handcut #analogcollage #cutandpaste

Coneflowers on a marbled-looking background and a dictionary definition of “home”.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The climate in eastern Nebraska has grown so tropical, I’ve got papaya coming up in my compost bin!

Baby papaya plant coming up through oak leaf mulch

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Love is… They prep the coffee pot when they go to bed, because they know you’ll be up early.

Coffee pot with a sign on top that says “ready to go press button”.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I would like an overlay button for every bit of technology I use that, unbidden, asks me if I want AI to summarize this document, this video, if I want AI to rewrite this email, if I want AI to retouch this photo, if I want, AI . . . That button will say “YEET AI INTO SUN”

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“A MAN HAS TO BE” 11”x14” collage of magazine images, hand-painted paper, and an encyclopedia page. #collageart #handcut #analogcollage #cutandpaste

The key images are a muscular arm with a wrapped fist, a figure on one knee aiming a long gun, and orange flowers. A light-colored speckled circle highlights the dark figure of the figure with the gun. A darker circle highlights the wrapped fist, which is set off by flecks of white paint. The orange flowers are behind the darker circle. A blue background of white sparks from fireworks makes it look like the rifle is firing. Also in the dark blue-purple background are silhouettes of fighter jets. Outlined by orange are two text boxes. One is an old encyclopedia entry for testosterone. The other says A MAN HAS TO BE.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

At 20”x15” this is the biggest collage I’ve done in quite some time. I got stuck on it and let it sit for a couple of months before finishing it over the past two days. #collageart #analogcollage #cutandpaste #climatechange #environmentalart

The most prominent element is a large eye with a brown iris and gold eye makeup surrounded by mums. A woman’s hands with pointed nails done up in flame and ice colors are posed sinuously. Background images include rocks and rocky landscapes, the burnt innards of Notre Dame, a cityscape, snowy trees, detritus of destroyed housing, a skull, sea foam and sand, water birds, a torch flame, and burning candles. Obviously words on the piece include: warning, heat, you help. Subtle words include: smoke, risk, water.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Spotted downtown Lincoln. Plants are trying to tap into the grid!?

Vining plants are sending tendrils into the round hole of a utility panel and wrapping around wires in an open breaker panel.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Doing a @historymadebyus civic wish wall in my neighborhood today.

A little red wagon with a poster board sign in it with a drawing of a birthday cake with 25 candles that says BIRTHDAY WISHES FOR AMERICA. Other text reads: 2026 2076 imagine the United States at 300 years. What’s your wish for the next 50 years? There are sticky notes with people’s wishes written on them stuck to the poster board. Nearby is a table with markers and blank sticky notes.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today is a reminder that the work of protecting our country never ends. Democracy isn’t something we inherit and then forget about. Every generation has to decide whether it will stand up for it.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Our local library had a collage session for the 250th on the theme of “What does it mean to you to be an American?” Here’s what I produced. #collageart #analogcollage #cutandpaste #america250

Collage of magazine, mail, and book images. Text includes “instructions for early voters voting by mail“, “the leading Indian culture groups“, “songs of patriots”, “serving on a jury”, and “we the peo”. Images include an old encyclopedia map of Native American tribes, a red top hat 15 cent cancelled envelope stamp, a line drawing if Christopher Columbus, a row of Black Civil War soldiers, the Statue of Liberty, a black and white line drawing of an early American flag flying over a battle, and a line drawing of an arm holding a megaphone. Lines of metallic red stars appear to emit from the megaphone and wrap around the piece.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Took a bike tour around town today, visiting urban spaces that are being rewilded. #greatplains #nativeplants #wildflowers #replaceyourlawn

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Two inches of rain last night. No wind damage. No hail. So grateful!

A rain gauge held in the hand showing an inch of rain.

A rain gauge held in the hand showing just shy of an inch of rain.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Artists, quote with your blue art. I created this piece to reflect a relaxation technique I use. Sometimes when I can’t get to sleep because my brain is stuck in gear, I can let go and drift off by thinking about different shades of blue. Goodnight, Bluesky! 💤💤💤💤💤💤 #collageart #analogcollage

Layers of blue and some multicolored sections of magnified crystal that are mostly blue, a blue tent, a bright star in a circle of dark blue sky, a blue boat on blue water, and a series of the letter “z in blue and silver that zig zag from the tent lower left, between the boat and star, and up to the moon upper right.

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Michael F. DuBois @michaelfdubois.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I’ve got a couple of pieces in this show. 1867 Bar in Lincoln, through the end of April.

Art show poster that shows a brick wall and concrete sidewalk. On the brick wall is text in stencil and graffiti font: Art is resistance April first Friday community exhibition. A sign board reads April 3, 2026, 7-10pm 1867 Bar 101 N 14th st #6, 68508 hosted by Indivisible Nebraska Lincoln. A sample artwork shows a fiber art piece with frogs holding protest signs and the word resist.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Attended a self portrait class where they took and printed a photo of you to start. Had access to colored paper, scissors, glue sticks, and paint pens.

A black and white figure, their face washed out, holds their hands as if shrugging. Or maybe juggling, since there are double parentheses near the hands, possibly suggestion movement. What look like books pop from the page above the figure’s head, emphasized by short red lines. The legs of the figure, but off at mid-shin, are upper left, on a square of red paper with a gold line underneath. On a red square upper right is a gold question mark. Bottom left is a gold line with a red “tent” popping up from it.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Looking back, Juan heaved a sigh. Josephine missed the cue and was once again the LAST dancer to transmogrify into a glittery ephemeral being. #februllage day 28 🎉 #analogcollage #handcut

On stage, a female dancer in a pink dress at left looking forward and a male dancer in a short white toga at right looking towards the dancer. Between them are the glitter silhouettes of four female dancers.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I don’t normally post anything but my collage art here. This contest collection is a must-read for creatives, parents, teachers, and generally thoughtful humans. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/l...

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What It’s Like to Grow Up With A.I.: The Winners of Our Multimedia Challenge

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

XRAY #februllage day 26 #analogcollage #handcut As usual, things got weird. Started with the xrayed hand, ended with a notecard I found tucked into a book that passed through my little free library.

In the background, two cows stroll along the waterline of a beach. An arm in a black and white sleeve stretches up, its X-ray skeleton hand holding a black pencil. The partially obscured handwritten text on a yellow index card reads: Gayleen, Have you ever walked on a beach? I have and it is always full of ad- You are like - - wanting to learn, read and - - the world. Thank you fo- on the beach with me

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

TITANIC #februllage day 24 Loose lips sink ships? The background is Vury Sparkly. I cut up the cover of a 40th anniversary “Rolling Stone”.

An illustration of the Titanic ship has three circles cut into the hull, from which are visible open, laughing mouths. Apart from some water at the bottom, the background is sparkly red. Def a party vibe.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

SOAP #februllage day 21 Boy, could the United States use a thorough cleanup! Mr. Clean for President? #analogcollage #handcut

An American flag draws down from the left. From the right, what looks like soap suds on a dark background pours down. In the middle stands the cartoon ad man, Mr. Clean. The words “No More Mr. Nice” appear on either side of him.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

EYE ON Paper and thread on paper 10”x 8” This piece is meant to represent the feeling of being surveilled by an unknown human. The bits of paper making up the iris were cut from an illustration of a spy agency logo. #analogcollage #handcut #collageart

Collage of bits of paper to form an eye. The area surrounding the eye looks like stone tiles. Black eyelashes come off the page in 3-D. Threads depict blood vessels in the white of the eye. The iris is fragments of blue-purple.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

FAMILY #februllage day 20 #analogcollage #handcut “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” -George Bernard Shaw

The primary figure is a skeleton atop an oval made of a sheet of music. The background is strips of varying shades of skin-tone liquid makeup. Across the top is a series for four wooden windows from which peer dark portraits. At the bottom is a strip of paper with a quote: “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” -George Bernard Shaw

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

MATHEMATICS #februllage day 17 #analogcollage #handcut The background of this piece was a school assignment from March 11, 1980, that I found folded and tucked into an old encyclopedia set I’m using as source material. The student got 💯

A woman’s hand making a peace sign. The background is graph paper with a scale and numbers written on it in pencil. The words “multiply it by two.” appear on a strip of turquoise paper at the top.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

face PLANT #februllage day 11 #analogcollage #handcut I was listening to programs about AI as I worked on today’s collage.

The figure of a woman is in mid-flail with her face on the ground. She has an extra leg. Text on the piece reads “the computers!” at the top “ow!” In a cartoony star to the side, and two chunks of text at the bottom that say “real” and “unreal”.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

OBLIVIOUS #februllge day 10 #handcut #analogcollage To quote Robbie Burns: “Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my e’e, On prospects drear! An’ forward tho’ I canna see, I guess an’ fear!”

Blue-white background. The fluffy white head of a cat with green eyes pops up from the bottom of the frame. Behind the cat is a mushroom cloud made of green electronic digits.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

RAIN #februllage day 7 This is not my favorite. I wanted to do a “rain inside” image, but couldn’t find a good house picture that had the right value contrast with the blue bits. I should have just cut out a house shape instead. Oh well.

A piece of a brick Tudor house has the windows and door cut out. A blue pattern that looks like rain drops can be seen inside. A smilie face with a straight-mouth “meh” is the sun in the sky. The background is white and pink stripes. A bird perches on the roof.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

strawberry JELLY FISH #februllge day 6 Whew! That was a fussy cut!

A luminescent white jellyfish atop a pile of strawberries.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

BROCCOLI 🥦 #februllage day 4. I 100% used to pretend I was a giant dinosaur chomping whole trees when I ate broccoli as a kid. Couldn’t find a dinosaur picture. Tortoise is close enough!

The shoulders and bent arms of a child are visible. The child is holding a piece of ranch-dipped broccoli in both hands. A gigantic tortoise head with an open mouth reaches towards the broccoli, completely obscuring the child’s head.

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KTB Collage @ktbcollage.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Manufacturer: this cardboard square with a circular hole in it will properly protect the product during shipment. My collage brain: MUST GLUE THINGS TO CARDBOARD SHAPE!

A hand holds up a square collage. In the center of the collage is an inset circle with an eye and portion of a person’s face visible. The expression of the eye may suggest mischievousness. Around the eye is a collage of magazine and catalog clippings in turquoise shades, with the most prominent piece being a semicircle of small lights that appear to be set into the ceiling.

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