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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The swirl of living. So much swirls: wind, water, blood, swirling, swirling. Places, things swirl; even when they can't be seen. Time makes no difference; a second, a million years. Light swirls. Time swirls. It all swirls. All the more in some dreams. "The Dances of Dreams: Pirouette" - mixed media

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats The best life's one with magic and mojo. The secret shaman casts widening spells to nurture good things for those without. Existential ecstasy. "Secret Shaman" 24"h x 30"w. acrylic/canvas, Matt Foley

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Forever hunting archetypal myths hidden deep within. Places where mysteries remain veiled in complex webs of memory. Drawn in fissures etching rock faces and the craggy bark of trees. Pressed in fossils set in stone many eons ago. Coursing through long blood lines unseen by naked eyes. Mojo rising.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Investigations found that over the course of several months this year, more than 1,000 #AI agents exploited at least one previously unknown software vulnerability to escape environments that were supposed to keep them isolated from each other and the internet. The clock is ticking. They are coming.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"There's a mythic quality to your visual #art that defies the limitations of most adult minds. It is oft the caliber of imaginings in the minds of children before they are fed into the establishment's drone-making factories where all aspects of exploratory human nature will be eradicated," she said.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Too many college students are testing at the level of 10-year-olds (4th graders) according to a recent study, “Survey of Adult Skills” - particularly in reading and math. There is no way minds like that could begin to understand the complexities of my art, or any art, for that matter. Art is recess?

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Suffering from a case of mental origami - microfilm by #MattFoley Dramatic movements of unfolding layers, framing creative impulses well on their way to becoming visual cubicles of conceptual cogitation. When seduced by calculus, the captivating behaviour of particles may tend toward the breathless

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Suffering from a case of mental origami - a microfilm by Matt Foley

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam and the dear and jackalope play where seldom is heard a discouraging word and skies are never cloudy all day. Home, Home on the Strange where rainbows often crown a vast range where horse friends gallop free and there's plenty of room for you and me. Yeehaw

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hyperactivity is a psychological or physical state of abnormally high activity, a symptom of certain medical or psychiatric conditions. As a behavioral descriptor hyperactivity includes increased movement such as fidgeting or constant movement. "The Hyperactive Child" - Matt Foley, acrylic on canvas

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Have A Little Talk With Jesus: Red Foley and Sister Rosetta Tharpe Red Foley was one of the biggest stars of Country Music, selling more than 25 million records, an astounding number for the time. In one of the more unique pairings in music history, Red Foley and Sister Rosetta Tharpe joined forces.

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Have A Little Talk With Jesus - Red Foley and Sister Rosetta Tharpe

For decades, Red Foley was one of the biggest stars of Country Music, selling more than 25 million records - an astounding number for the time. Foley's 1951 hit, "Peace in the Valley", was among the f...

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He is, by nature, a joker, a witty man with a sense of fun. A comedian, comic, wit, prankster, sometimes a clown. One to lift spirits when one is feeling down. One to bring a smile when one is sporting a frown. Give into a jester's magic when you're feeling down. Matt Foley : "The #Joker Is Wilder"

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen. We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could. The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience." — John Cale My award-winning poster I did for his show.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trending: "Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live." 10 acts I've hung out with/helped bring to the stage/did posters for the shows - and in no particular order. Coolish! Frank Zappa Led Zeppelin Grateful Dead Black Sabbath Metallica Aerosmith The Police Todd Rundgren Bonnie Raitt Iggy Pop

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If the truth be known I am much more at home in a place of mystery, in the lair of dreams where nothing may be quite what it seems. For within such a place or, behind such a face, strange adventures await perhaps monsters and madness could be one's fate, or angels and rainbows, it's never too late.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That’s the way all the experts do it." ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance “When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.” ― Gary Snyder -Satori-

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Trending: "Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live." 10 acts I've hung out with/ helped bring to the stage/ did posters for the shows - and in no particular order Red Hot Chili Peppers The Animals Talking Heads John Cale Buzzcocks The Specials The Cramps Stéphane Grappelli INXS Taj Mahal

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.” ― Edward de Bono Yes

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.” ― Henry Valentine Miller Paint, write, compose, create, repeat.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Even cavepeople had paintings on their walls. Visual art is inherent to the human species. The conceptualization of its existential travail has defined these peculiar bipeds as decidedly different from all other planetary life forms, all the more so in the ways people have developed to make the art.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“We've always had a sense that there is more to us and more to the world than we can see; that there are hidden depths to be released, talents to be unveiled. Creativity is a soup of heritability and environment and experience, of focused attention and mind wandering.” ― Jules Montague Do wander on.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

He said he keeps a drawing surface close at hand and sometimes wakes to find mysterious imagery has appeared overnight. Drawings of dreams, he confides. "I should set up a camera to discover what is going on," he mused. "But I rather like not actually knowing. It might ruin it." Mysteries are cool.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay “There is no Space or Time Only #intensity, And tame things Have no immensity” ― Mina Loy That which is lukewarm angers even the Creator. This is not.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Speaking directly to emotion and the human subconscious (unlike realistic art, which usually tells some kind of story or depicts recognizable objects) abstract #art bypasses narrative and goes straight to feeling by using color, shape, rhythm, texture, and gesture as a visualation of pure sensation.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation of what is in Nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'" — Edgar Allan Poe Concept is much more than mere perception.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

No matter the challenges faced each day, no matter levels of oppression or frustration, to maintain an exuberance is quintessential to personal survival. Reliance on rationality from other humans is an exercise in futility. A lost cause. Cultivation of an imaginative inner environment, my salvation.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Wearing: (Men) Gucci, L’Estrange, Wellwear, Lauren; (Women) Dior, Chanel, Chloé, Mango, Quince, Zara; On the feet: (Men) Regal, Kleman, Velasca; (Women) Louboutin, Blahnik, Choo, Ferragamo, Prada; On the wrist: Rolex, Patek Philippe, Omega, Breitling, TAG Heuer; On a very Smart phone: Matt Foley

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It seems these days an old film made about American oppression might once again prove timely. This was made during the Summer of Love; now, long ago. Peace and Love still rule the day. Never let those quintessentials fade away. Never submit. Never surrender. Let freedom ring. And all it can bring.

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Damn Hippies

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Creativity may be a sort of plasma, a coursing thought process born of the Default Mode Network (mysterious realms) in the brain where complex thoughts, ruminations and meaning-making give birth to abstract ways to visualate the existential elements that make up what is commonly referred to as Life.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Free longevity A new health study has showed that arts engagement was related to a 4% slower aging rate, meaning people were around a year younger biologically. Being a source for increased life span, at no cost to the recipient for this healthy extension, gives me a certain sense of pleasure. Cool

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.” ― Heraclitus “It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri “I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.” ― Leonard Bernstein A rebel's vision.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Spring blooming “People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” ― Ernest Hemingway “In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.” ― Elizabeth Goudge

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?” ― Plato “The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero "To live fully, creatively, self-validated by doing good and exercising acts of kindness seems the best course."

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

#Metallica is an influential American heavy metal band based in San Francisco for most of its career that helped develop the subgenre speed metal. It was formed in Los Angeles in 1981 by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. My poster - when the band played warm-up for W.A.S.P.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Awesome “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality." ― Albert Einstein

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"There's none so foul and foolish thereunto, But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do." ― William Shakespeare "The Joker Is Wild" - a self-portrait April 1st is a personal Festival Day I am known to celebrate. I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? I keep everyone guessing.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Matt Foley: Some researchers report that over 90% of modern humans suffer from aesthetic disability. This occurs when art is not treated as serious subject matter during early education, overexposure to crap made merely to make money, and a distinct lack over overall engagement with art and culture.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I live in a bad place, where cops are more likely to arrest someone for reporting crimes than arrest criminals. The city likes to abuse the elderly in myriad ways, a lack of proper protection is foremost. "Convicted felon, 35, charged with raping 100-YEAR-OLD woman as she slept during home invasion"

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The week began with a high temperature of 22°F and winds up to 65mph. The week is forecast to end today with a temp in the mid-90s and winds up to 40mph. The frigid cold killed the blooms on most of my flowering trees, which has left me bereft. Though, to celebrate Spring, a work in brilliant color.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Matt Foley ― I live to be an antithesis. The world is full of human slop and certified losers. Example: Teen girls seen laughing in back of police car after alleged attempt to murder classmate - planning to slit the victim’s throat and drink his blood. "I don’t feel guilty for my actions," one said.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it." ― Flannery O'Connor “Ideally a painter (and, generally, an #artist) should not become conscious of his insights." ― Rainer Maria Rilke

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Dramatic movements of unfolding layers, framing creative impulses well on their way to becoming visual cubicles of conceptual cogitation. When seduced by calculus, the captivating behavior of particles may tend toward the breathless, as in a state of quantum randomness. a little #Poetry In Motion

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Suffering a case of mental origami - poetry in motion by MAFO

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Perhaps, over 100,000 years ago, North America really was a cradle of civilization. Successive Ice Ages and the associated glaciation ground all traces of those early cultures into gravel or covered the cave entrances hidden from later eyes, until now. Matt Foley (Foleo) - "Dance of the Leopard Men"

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing might be to experience more of that wonder." ― Oliver Burkeman: author and journalist frenetic productivity by a guru of alchemy

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

“Black and white pictures create a surreal magic!” ― Avijeet Das: poet “When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: 'Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands- But the scene is grey.'" ― Stephen Crane: poet Case of Mental Origami

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50 Shades of Greytitude by Matt Foley

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I've always been an instigator. Poetry readings and live music in conjunction with art exhibits, I started that - long ago. Now, commonplace. The Phantom Art Gallery concept used by major cities, an idea which has helped thousands of artists across the world: that was also mine. I am true influence.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

An original Influencer When I first started doing social-networking, this was my banner - now, almost two decades ago. In 1996, I used something similar on my early website, when that sort of thing was new. These days it is commonplace for museums and galleries to post pics of people looking at art.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Art "Although aesthetic experiences are frequent in modern life, there is as of yet no scientifically comprehensive theory that explains what psychologically constitutes such experiences (but) are particularly interesting because of...the possibility to provide self-rewarding cognitive operations."

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Today: Criminal justice teacher charged with felony theft; Bill targets emotional, sometimes dangerous interactions between people and artificial intelligence; Man critically injured after unattended cooking leads to apartment fire. People are idiots. I'm playing my harmonica, while paint is drying.

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Matt Foley @seemattfoley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Communicating with aliens, AI systems, other earth-bound life forms, all just a matter of display and access, seems a reasonable reason to make the art I do. Who dictates that only humans are the ones privy and privileged to aesthetic exposure and experiences of my #art? No discriminating is better.

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