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Susan Davis Cushing

@sdcushing.bsky.social
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#EastCoastKin Arts Collective member #BlueBrew Coffeehouse Host, founder #BlueBrewBooks Host, founder Relentless arts and photography advocate. Eclectic and inveterate sharer. Retired arts administrator. Former dancer. Bookish. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ LGBTQ+ friendly

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Susan Davis Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 3h
My pleasure!
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Susan Davis Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 14h
One day til #TheCampfire! Here’s the traditional reminder from me — Are You Ready?!
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 13h
Ruth Bernhard, German-American (1905-2006), Star Shell, 1943, photograph, gelatin silver print, image: 19.05 x 23.97 cm, sheet: 27.78 x 35.4 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20h
Blue Skies Over Whitby, painting by Bridget Wilkinson.
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Henk Heijmans @henkheijmans.bsky.social · 20h
Ready for my 11 am, 2024 - by Nicola Davison-Reed, English
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they’re given wings. ~ Rumi (1207-1273) #Streetart by ATM.
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kutyafülü @boriszka.bsky.social · 19h
gina costa #interior #moma #ny #colorphoto
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h
#Photography, Charlotte Greenwood, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio (1928).
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 18h
Josie Mowray (b.USA) "Yield" (Red Tailed Hawk) Oil and enamel paint on board.
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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 18h
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Susan Davis Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 13h
🗳️ 🌹 🫶 💕
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 17h
Monday morning coffee greetings! xo * * * “People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” -Iris Murdoch
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 17h
Fog over the river, 1916 Ivan Avgustovich Weltz (1866-1926)
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 17h
By Philip Jackson
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 17h
'Hedgehog in a Landscape' by Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670), Italian Baroque era painter
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 17h
'Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.' — Kurt Vonnegut (via pauluhler)
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Henk Heijmans @henkheijmans.bsky.social · 17h
Little boy carrying bread, Paris, ca. 1949 - by Tore Johnson (1928 - 1980), Swedish
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 16h
Marzia Colonna The Gardener 2026
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 16h
Romona Youngquist End of Summer
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 16h
Iris at Sea (1994) Jamie Wyeth
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 16h
Awakening the Falu Dream By Jeff Stanford, 2026
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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 16h
Sunrise at Stonehenge today (5th October) was at 7.14am, sunset is at 6.37pm
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 16h
Max Ernst : Animals of the Night (Some animals are illiterate), 1973, Vence, France 72.5 × 47.5 cm Created late in his career when he was in his 80s for the exhibition of Max Ernst at the Alphonse Chave gallery. Further info in the alt text 👇
The Subconscious and Dream Logic:
 The artwork captures Ernst's lifelong fixation with metamorphosis, primal instincts, and the dream state. The layout features hybrid creatures—fusing properties of birds, beasts, and ghostly apparitions—emerging out of a heavily textured darkness.

Masterful Lithography: 
The print utilizes highly refined lithographic layering and smooth gradations to create an atmospheric, otherworldly haze where forms materialize directly out of a cosmic subconscious background.

Late-Career Evolution: 
While it retains the biting, youthful experimentation of his 1920s Dada and Surrealist periods, Animals of the Night shifts toward a more meditative, cosmic, and mythic framework where dream logic entirely overrides intellect.
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 16h
Mark Rothko : Untitled, n.d. Deep blue and teal abstract canvas painting.
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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 15h
Traces of ancient shells in a broken rock. #MacroMonday #photography #fossils #seashells
Closeup of fossilized sea shells in a piece of broken rock.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15h
a forged steel rose.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15h
By Xi Jiu.
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OLAMBRILLAS @olambrillas.bsky.social · 15h
Collage #2150 Fulgor de transparencia
©️ Cristian Berga
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Susan Davis Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 13h
Ah, an excellent day to you, Manon, with a wonderful week to follow. May the elections today go as you hope they will… all my love to you, dear friend. 🫶 💕 🕊️ 🍃 💐
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slowdriver25.bsky.social @slowdriver25.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Apples #Red #Fruit #Tree #AltText #NoAI
closeup view of a pair of red apples, close together one above the other, hanging on a branch surrounded by green leaves
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 15h
#Poetry #Art #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 15h
#Poetry #Painting #EverdayMagic Nature is not stingy with her miracles We simply forget to look 🎨 Iris Esther
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 14h
#Poetry #Art #Morning the swirling waves, the narrow streets, the houses, the past, the future, the doorway that belongs to you and me. - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kevin Kia
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 14h
"Autumn Colours, Chelsworth" (oil on canvas) - Paul Evans
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 14h
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” ~ Franz Kafka (1883-1924) #Painting by Carrie Ann Jackson.
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twistopherrobin.bsky.social @twistopherrobin.bsky.social · 14h
#Art #LindenFrederick
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twistopherrobin.bsky.social @twistopherrobin.bsky.social · 14h
#Art #LindenFrederick #Maine
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 13h
Chaïm Soutine, Belarusan-French (1893-1943), Les Glaïeuls, c 1919, oil on canvas, 82.6 x 60.3 cm, private collection
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 13h
Karen Terzyan, Armenian (1962- ), The Fairy, 2023, coulage, bronze, brass, obsidian, 19.69 x 12.6 x 34.25 in, private collection
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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 19h
Good morning. Cloudy. Still. 14C. Headed home today, so the home beach is required for #photooftheday I feel. Wishing you a good new week and a happy Monday. #Scotland #photography #beach #sea
Blue sky with some low white clouds over distant hills. pale blue sea with bright highlights at the shoreline. A long sandy beach with people and a dog in silhouette mid shot. Sand with pools of sea water at the strand line. Maram grass along a line of dunes left and in the foreground, flanking a concrete walkway, mid photo.
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Susan Davis Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 13h
It’s my pleasure, Shantha! 🫶 🥰
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Jim Allen @jim16309.bsky.social · 19h
Dublin, Ireland shorturl.at/OPvoV #photography #bnwphotography #citylife #sony #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #candidphotography #dublin #ireland
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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 19h
Atlantic Birding’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlueSkies New Holland Honeyeater singing to attract the ladies at Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra. #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky
New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae) singing to attract the ladies at Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.
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Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social · 18h
🌱 #magentaMonday Gorgeous “Morning Glory” flowers for you this morning. When I lived in Johannesburg as a child it was thought of as a pernicious weed, like we think of Bindweed. Perception is a mysterious thing! Bulb planting today with a bit of a rain dance/prayer added.
Two beautiful Morning Glory flowers, trumpet shaped with magenta stripes on the petals.
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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 18h
I walked upstairs to my bedroom. Halfway up, someone was already descending. Neither of us stopped. It was me, wearing a sinister grin.
Photo by HIDDEN COUPLE. A lone figure ascends a curving staircase bathed in soft light, their silhouette framed by the stark geometry of tiled walls and shadow. The upper portion of the image glows with diffused illumination, while the lower half sinks into deep black, evoking a quiet threshold between darkness and form. The handrails guide the eye upward, echoing the motion of the figure—mid-step, wrapped in stillness. The moment feels suspended, as though time holds its breath within this minimalist, cavernous space.
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Dave Whitfield @danskedave.bsky.social · 18h
Vemmenæs rocket ship... #BlueSkyMonday #Tåsinge #Denmark #Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ECK
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Susan Davis Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 13h
You’re welcome, Shantha! 🫶
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June chat perché² @juneandcie.bsky.social · 18h
#ColorADay #PinkMon #MacroMonday #Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBlueSky #FleurisTonFil
Macro photography of pink cosmos after the rain
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Susan Davis Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 13h
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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 18h
Cut Tulips are back in the shops, reminding me that I need to plant bulbs to flower in April for Parkinson's Awareness Month, the disease that ate my lovely wife's mind. #ColorADay #PinkMon #Tulips #Flowers #Parkinsons #ForJanet #Bloomscrolling #ECK #PhotographersOfBluesky #iPhonePhotography
Pink Tulips in a square glass vase on the kitchen table pictured in Portrait Stage Light setting on 
 iPhone 15 Pro.
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