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#gardenonthesideofahill artist, small town Big River

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Like a nightmare it came. Another #awkwardrobot from an ongoing series. Back when this textbook was required reading and thoughts of the future involved #robots one could see and control, we missed that moment when the machine became invisible. #analogart #art #kunst #contemporaryart #handpainted
A monochrome off kilter one eyed robot form with clunky arms and legs that don't seem to be the same length seems to stagger towards the viewer. 
Light green translucent background that somewhat hides a page from an illustrated technical book.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Buy art, support a good cause. Bidding begins today to support the Wisconsin Master Naturalist program. My piece is #109 in case you want to have one of my originals for your desktop while you work away in that windowless office. #blueskyart #buyart #artauction #landscapeart #driftless #tinyart
Flyer announcing the Nature's Canvas Tiny Art collection  now available for bidding until Oct. 2. Every bid supports the Wisconsin Master Naturalist program that supports volunteer efforts across Wisconsin's natural places.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Right. Weapons in space. What could go wrong? #awkwardrobots #analogart #kunst #blueskyart #art #mixedmedia #foundpaper #portrait #iss
Robot-like, 3/4 profile mostly reddish portrait facing right.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Flicker. Once more with the #birdoftheday and #birdsinabstract theme. No reason photographers should have all the fun. #abstractart #analogart #art #kunst #avianart #avianvisitors
Black silhouette of a flicker in flight over a multicolored background of some vague shapes in yellows, blues, greens, and peach.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Apparently one can only post one photo at a time on this platform? I did not know. Spent the weekend near the #BWCA. Lots of lakes, mushrooms, and task trees.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Energy lines from ca. 2013 #abstractexpressionism #abstractart #foundpaper #kunst #blueskyart #art #arte #analogart #handpainted #upcycle
Overlapping brushestrokes in a non-discernable pattern. Green and black are the dominant heavy brush with smaller orange strokes almost feeling recessed from the front plane. 
Acrylic on used envelope.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Pool A at Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge looking SE towards Minnesota with Little Black Oak Island in the mid-ground. Last week there were dozens of white pelicans in this backwater pool of the Mississipi River. Such it is to live by the migratory flyway. #uppermississippiriver #driftless
A pool of blue water with water lily pads near a small tree covered island. In the background are bluffs of Minnesota.
The Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge is a small Refuge next to the Perrot State Park of Wisconsin to the south and the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge to the north.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is me from 5 months ago. One could add to the list but it's exhausting.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
from April, 2026 collage, original painting, prints of original painting, stencil. The robot dreams of flying. #abstractart #avianvisitors #kunst #blueskyartshow #robots #dancers #dreamscape #awkwardrobots
Multiple layers of image. Background is a series of somewhat circular light green forms with a slot of darker green across is centers. Midground has an eagle's wing in the your left-hand corner, a fluttering yellow flicker flying into the frame from the lower right corner. Two small dancer silhouettes, one blue, hovering over the eagle's wing, the other yellow, leads into the frame in the upper right side. In the foreground, a translucent 1960s robot seemingly reviewing the scene, leans towards the left in the lower left hand side, it's feet not seen in the frame.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Observing the lily pads in the backwaters of the #uppermississippiriver is sort of fieldwork for future artwork. So, no I wasn't just lollygagging about all day. #blueskyart #waterlilies #backwaters #inspiration #lilypads #kunst #art #nature
The distinctive form of lilypads, a green circle with a wedge cut out, fills the photo.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
from July, 2021. #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #thosedamnameboas #analogart #blueskyartshow #foundpaper #landscapeart
Abstract, amorphous forms circle around a light blue somewhat oval form. Many shades of browns, light greens, and a black shape that seems to be in conversation with that blue oval.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Yellow coneflowers caught this morning. #gardenonthesideofahill #coneflowers #urbangardener #nativeplants #pollinatorfriendly #driftless #uppermississippiriver #fountaincitywi #growyourown #staywell #dogood #bekind #gooutside
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Waiting on a phone call. Had a painting instructor a long time ago teach me about negative spaces. This summer there has been too much of too much. #blueskyart #abstractart #analogart #art #kunst #contemporaryart #staywell #bekind #changeyourstory
A Series of squiggly shapes all interconnected that shift from yellow-green upper left to dark green lower right. 
The shapes created by the continuous line asks if the colored area creates the image or if the negative areas do.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This only a test. I haven't been able to post to bsky on my phone browser. This is a close up of sunflowers in bloom from 7.09.2015. #gardenonthesideofahill #urbangardener #sunflowers #growyourown #outside
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/07/2026
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...
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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Spending more time weeding, reading, biking, hiking, and visiting than making art this time of the year. So here's a piece from some years back w shadows of today. #abstractart #contemporaryart #kunst #analogart #mapart #foundpaper
Hard shadow lines running lower left to upper right obscure somewhat the multi-colored mostly vertical nonreprestational forms that are somewhat linear in form. The background is a map with four horizontal lines evenly spaced.
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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The USFWS plans to hand over more than 700 acres of The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge — home to some of the United States’ most critically endangered species — to SpaceX in a reckless land swap. Tell your senators to stop this giveaway. act.biologicaldiversity.org/Ws09iSNvsE2X...
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Save a Vital Refuge From a Trillionaire’s Takeover
The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge is home to some of the United States' most critically endangered species. But now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to hand over more than 7...
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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 16/06/2026
Insulin should be capped at $35/month. Repost if you agree.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It will be a little while before the purple coneflowers are looking like this, but they are getting ready, especially after the much needed rain yesterday. from 2022 #gardenonthesideofahill #urbangardener #driftlessregion #coneflowers #gardenart #blueskyart #kunst #staywell #bekind #growyourown
Purple coneflowers painted in an expressionist way with the sunlight highlighting the pedals.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Moth found. Alas, dead. Shadow persists. #moth #gardenonthesideofahill #urbangardener #driftless #uppermississippiriver #releasethefiles #staywell #bekind #gooutside
A dead brown moth belly side up with splotches of white on lower wings, sorry don't know the terminology, with touches of orange visible on the upper wings.
Lying on white fabric.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Back during the pandemic I was investigating ameba shapes layered in transparent patterns. from early 2021. #abstractart #thosedamnameboas #foundpaper #kunst #art #blueskyart #staywell #bekind #makeart #buyart
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Fish with extensions, because sometimes you just need to make an impact. #fishart #underwaterart #blueskyart #gofish #poisson #kunst
A brownish left facing fish that is shaped by like a sunfish.  The fish has exaggerated fins that look at bit like long fingers.
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The Tattooed Historian @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Support our libraries!
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I guess we now know who is not the favorite son. #epsteinfiles #nokings #nowar
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This Sunday, May 24th. Travel the #greatriverroad this weekend. Stop in #fountaincitywi check out #thecornerstorefc as they celebrate their 100 yr old soda fountain. I'm next door. I have a lot of my original art for sale & on sale, as well as prints, cards, and more. #handmade #art #kunst #buyart
Drawing of an 1864 small brick house.
8 South Main Street, Fountain City, Wisconsin.
11-4pm, Sunday, May 24th.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"He's a person I've known for a long time." Seriously, who talks about your own son like this? from a series of Critters from 2020 (pandemic). This may be available as a notecard SUN, May 24, at my Studio Sale in Fountain City, WI. #buyart #art #kunst #greatriverroad #fountaincitywi
A green goblin-like round-headed creature seems to be holding the earth with its red arms. It has spiky brownish hair, two red eyes with slits for pupils, a green brow and nose, yellow tinted lips and a??? blue beaded moustache that has a blue squiggly line that accents where the cheekbones might be. Also string green beans for ears.
Also green shoes. It seems to be standing on something, but the background is black with points of light stars, so maybe just floating in space.

This not based on any living, or dead, being and shouldn't be interpreted as political commentary of any sort.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Still hawking my Studio Sale this Sunday, May 24. This is about the electrical charges our nerves send/receive. Acrylic on panel. 11-4, 8 South Main, Fountain City, WI. My neighbor is celebrating their 100 year old soda fountain w a street party. #fountaincitywi #driftless #greatriverroad #buyart
A mostly blu horizontal painting w yellowish lightening like lines moving around the piece. 
Some of the blue shapes have a bit of yellow/orange in them.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For #Feathursday Pelican at Mile 722 acrylic on panel This along w other bird portraits will be available at my Studio Sale, SUN, May 24, as part of the Fountain City, WI, community celebration. It is available as a post card too. Both ON SALE. #driftless #fountaincitywi #uppermississippiriver
White pelican, with black wing tips facing right with Mile 722 of the Mississippi in bright blue and red as the background.

Studio Sale
8 South Main Street
Fountain City, WI

My neighbor, The Corner Store, is celebrating 100 years of their newly refurbished soda fountain. There is will be a street party including other marker vendors, music, and bbq.

I'll have 9 years of Avian Visitor, 100 Views of Trempealeau Mountain, and Robots! paintings available, as well as cards, prints, bandanas, t-shirts, pillows, painted wood boxes, and more.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Take a trip on the #greatriverroad this Memorial Day weekend. My neighbor #thecornerstore is celebrating 100 yrs of their soda fountain w a street party w music, bbq + more. I'll have loads of art for sale and on sale. #fountaincitywi #driftless #art #analogart #safetravels #staywell #staykind
Yellow 1864 house w brown trim rendering. Studio Sale, 8 South Main Street, Fountain City, WI. I'll be open 11-4, Sunday May 24th, but the street party kicks off closer to 2, with music and bbq 4 til 7.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I'm having a Studio Sale on Sunday, May 24, as part of my neighbor #thecornerstore celebrating 100 years of their soda fountain. There will be a street party w music, bbq, + other maker vendors. I'll have these post cards and original art and prints on sale. Travel the #greatriverroad that weekend.
Picture postcards of pelicans, okay three versions, they are fav, as well as a sandhill crane, and blue heron postcards that have sections of the Mississippi River nautical maps as a background in bright colors.
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
WHY DO WE HAVE WARS? Because we are ruled by an elite group of psychopaths who own the banks that control the governments and media. They fund both sides of war for profit and they manufacture the consent of the public through the propaganda of the media. ~Stephen Geist RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
Color artwork depicting a young boy asking his mother, “Why do we have wars?” She replies, “Because we are ruled by an elite group of psychopaths who own the banks that control the governments and media. They fund both sides of war for profit and they manufacture the consent of the public through the propaganda of the media.”
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
May the fourth... After the film thing got old he/she/they found a nice quiet planet where the locals where looking for a god figure to worship. steel engraving w acrylic [available] #robotlove #robots #maythefourth #R2D2 #bewell #staykind #findyourtibe
Steel engraving of a procession of the followers of Canute coming upon an apparition of R2D2, upper right, painted in a ghostly/godly white.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Dinosaur as part of the Parade of Creatures at the Bluffview Community Earth Day celebration yesterday. #winonamn #earthday #Dinosaur #awkwarddinosaur #handmade #blueskyart #studentmade
A dinosau skelton with a long neck being carried by several students coming over a slight hill. Blue sky. Green grass.
A most excellent morning.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
What does "Rate Limit Exceeded " mean?
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
from a series from around 2002-3. Shown at the Winona Public Library in 2012, "Ten Years Late(r)". #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #workonpaper #foundpaper #blueskyart #art #kunst #arte #analogart #staywell #bekind #buyartnotbombs
Loose brushstrokes of blue, tellow, red, greys, white. with a few lines oa graphite also in a loose style. Not representational.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
#awkwardrobots from a series of robots based upon past images of robots. Our current 'robots' do not reflect what we thought we were going to get. Faceless metal boxes connected to other faceless metal boxes doing someone's bidding. #contemporaryart #kunst #blueskyart #staywell #bekind #beaware
A somewhat wedge shaped silver robot with clunky legs and skinny articulated arms has a large blue domed head with a much smaller blue dome sitting just to its right (our left). Each dome head as a red light atop it.
The body of the robot has 4 red lights in a row level with the middle of the arms, another red light below the others. Below them, even with the end of the arms is what appears to be either a green grill or a slot that could fit a movie cassette.
The background is green with typing somewhat visible. Upper right are the words Dear Editor. Lower right is the word LETTERS 583.
Interpret this as you will.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Abstraction from the news. #abstractart #blueskyart #analogart #handpainted #kunst #contemporaryart #staywell #bekind #changeyourstory
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Awkward Robot dream. From an awkward series. #awkwardrobots #robotlove #avianvisitors #dancers #mixedmedia #analogart #kunst #contemporaryart #collage #staywell #bekind #sleepthesleepofrobots
Overall blue-ish background. Center has a green-ish tone with number silhouettes of birds and dancers leaping from the center. 
To the lower right is silver robot that seems to be observing the dreamscape before it.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hopefully this scence will be recreated this year. Lily pads and lotus flowers. Delta Point #trempealeaunationalwildliferefuge #uppermississippiriver #backwaters #driftless #blueskyartshow #kunst #art #staywell #bekind #gooutside
Lily pads and lotus stemmed leaves dominate the foreground. Middle ground a bed of lily pads and lotus flowers. Bluffs along the main channel of the Mississipi River can be seen in the background. 
Bright green and blue are the dominate palette.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Went for a snowshoe today. Came back and painted this scence. #abstract #abstractlandscape #snowshoe #kunst #blueskyartshow #trempealeaunationalwildliferefuge
Snowy. Bare trees in foreground with some broken trees middle ground, and short bushes in the background. Colors are grey, red-brown, and some black. 
It was a nice day for shoeing, temps showing, low 30s, no wind.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Snow day here. A good day to reflect on the gifts of aging, which we may not want and can not return but with patience we come to accept this wisdom.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Eagles' nest There are a number of eagles' nests one can see, walk near, in the #trempealeaunationalwildliferefuge . Winter provides clear viewing and less chance of upsetting the inhabitants. #landscape #eagles #expressionism #kunst #blueskyartshow #analogart #staywell #bekind #gooutside
Landscape of yellows and browns with a tree with an eagle nest dominating the image. 
Painted in an expressionist style. No songs birds were hurt at this spot in real life.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
from 2016 A small landscape from the year I worked in Utah. #landscape #abstractexpressionism #arte #kunst #blueskyartshow #analogart #staywell #bekind #travel
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
There must be a lot of bad stuff in the Epstein Files if this 34 count felon draft dodger has illegally started a war while negotiations were under way to end their nuclear weapons program, which BTFW Pres. Obama had already negotiated some years ago. This won't change the regime, just the top dog.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Weird they dragged in Hillary Clinton when there's another First Lady right there in the White House who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Sketch of Pool C with lotus and lily pads. From a photo I took a few years and seasons ago. #trempealeaunationalwildliferefuge #landscape #driftless #foundpaper #repurposedbook #kunst #blueskyart #uppermississippiriver #analogart
A few large lotus leaves in light green in the foreground in blue water. Middle ground are smaller, more distant leaves w white flowers floating on the dark surface. In the far background a line of brown bluffs.
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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The only way to prove you have a mind is to change it occasionally." -Reyner Banham
Abstract art. Seems to be a human figure turned away from the viewer looking towards a scene inside a scene.
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