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Laura J. Tafe

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Pathologist artist mother reader introvert vistas & edges she/her

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
There's a blaze of light in every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Ph. J. Wigler
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Cohen blowing a smoke ring at the camera. He is sitting at a table with a coffee.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“topography” #ljtanalogcollage #collage #collageart #analogcollage
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Association for Molecular Pathology @ampath.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Laura J. Tafe is the recipient of our 2026 Jeffrey A. Kant Leadership Award! She will be recognized at #AMP2026 in Seattle in November. Learn about her service: www.amp.org/about/newsroom/press-re…
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I, of course, love this book and quote.
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Monochrome Photograph

a wildness of grasses leaves blown by winds
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Desert Breath,1995-97, monumental land art, Eastern Sahara, Egypt, by Danae Stratou, Alexandra Stratou, Stella Constantinides, covering 25 acres of the Egyptian desert #WomensArt
Aeriel photograph looking down on a huge spiral installation in the desert sands
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Red’s is so good. The place across the street by the bridge is excellent too (Sprague's I think).
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Thanks!
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A little lino print by me.
Little blue lino print of a dog with its tongue out and one eye winking
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Purple crocuses
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Crocus buds!
Purple crocus buds
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
One must keep gluing the pieces back together.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If you have any suggestions for Tallinn I’d love to hear them.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Have you been to Estonia? I’m going to Tallinn in June for a work trip and hope to get a little time in the city.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“Notorious” #ljtanalogcollage
Paper collage, black white yellow and pink
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Happy Valentine’s Day! #ljtcollage
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Thank you so much for listening! ❤️
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. Camus
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
They’re out already!?
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The grief is too huge for preparation.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I’m so sorry for the loss of your sweet Willow. 💙
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The first full moon of 2026 is known as the #WolfMoon when the wolves howl with hunger. Kiki Smith, Cathedral, 2012,  jacquard tapestry #WomensArt
Artwork with standing wolf and flying bird under a full moon
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year! 💙
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Wishing you boldness and courage in the New Year!
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f... bsky.app/profile/rebe...
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Debating Away Our Humanity
CBS News wants to know if "feminism failed women." Here's what they're really asking.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Wrapping up 2025 with what’s become a little series I’ve been working on these last few months. I’m calling them “bodies in motion” as they are comprised of figures and fabrics which seem to have movement of their own. There are 18 now. Here’s the first 12. #ljtanalogcollage #collage
Collage of paper fabrics.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
'Snuggles' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt #Sunday #Winter
Print looking down the body of a person covered in a gold covered blanket with feet protruding and a black cat laying on the top of the person
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
One of my favorite words.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
🤣
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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Day 18 #ArtAdventCalendar • Here is my #SciArt #embroidery cell map (2020), which plays with the idea of the cell as a landscape and labels as poetic text. I wrote about this piece in detail on my blog: liapas.com/2020/09/07/n...
An embroidery of the diagram of a cell on blue linen. the details are in whites, blues, turquoise, burgundy, green, and deep orange. The labels are poetic text instead of scientific terms. From bottom right around to bottom left it reads: Pair of pleases. Chance it some. Chromatic & new to us (carries us some of the way) New to us. Chromatic nets. Please remember. Vacant. Reticent about apparent goals. The centre. Where sometimes we met. Two of us. Sector illustrating the firm approach to pleasure. Caring pleases. New to us. Remember. True newness (pleasure). Sector illustrating sides to where time ran and had pleasure. 
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Good morning
Snowy field and trees
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
#collage by me
Collage with tree branches, blue, orange stripes and black lettering
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
There’s nothing quite like the sensation of running your fingers through dried legumes. I find it soothing.
Green split peas on a person’s palm.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
And, I love this one.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I do have this collection of what I think is some of his early work.
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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
collage on old postcard with quote made popular by Woody Guthrie
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Each moment is a place you've never been. Mark Strand
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
'Brilliance of the souls', 2014, from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms series #WomensArt
Gallery space with mirrors reflecting infinity of balls of multicoloured light against blackness
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Oh, I love that.
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Peter Braubach @peterbraubach.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Kids were playing around with watercolour yesterday - so I had a go. #lichen and art.
Abstract watercolour rendering of cladonia lichen.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon
Spiral montage of photos of the moon in different hues against a black background
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#analogcollage #ljtanalogcollage
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I used that deer in one of my own collages. Always fun to see how others used the same image.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
😅❤️
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The ubiquitous glue question - what adhesive do you use for canvas?
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Serendipity.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Beautiful!
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I really liked reading this. We all need to hear more stories of finding hope. Thank you for sharing.
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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
A Redwood up close.
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