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Poetry Symposium's avatar

,, we are all ghost here - that particular one stopped me ....

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thank you! I want to play around with that structure more.

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Neil Barker's avatar

I like that collage titled: "we're all ghosts here" - especially fitting on today's topic of your post. by making things like art and literature, we get to see that "beautiful strangeness of the mystery that breathes into the dust of our being." you mention. Well-said and I feel like a ghost sometimes, timeless and seeing the past 'me' as well as the 'future me.' Perhaps they are the ghosts? Interesting.

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Duane Toops's avatar

Great thoughts here Neil! The ghosts of past-futures, or the ghosts of future-pasts, interesting! Thanks so much!

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Letters from Beth's avatar

Making as an act of recalibration and communication...absolutely lovely. Imagine if that was the way we humans moved...

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thanks so much! It’s the thing that keeps me grounded and connected. Thanks again!

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Celia Crane's avatar

Beautiful and haunting work. I dig it.

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thanks so much! I’m so glad you like it!

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Andrea Fisher's avatar

gently blown away... exhale

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thanks so much!

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Emily Foucart's avatar

I see an evolution in your work, in color (or no color), composition, real cool new stuff here.

I couldn't agree more with what you said about the relation between reality and what we see and reshape.

Great post!

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thanks so much! I’ve had a lot of mixed feelings about some of the new stuff, but it’s not my job to question where the work is going. It’s my job to be curious enough to follow where it leads.

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