The Kalamazoo Nature Center accepted my insect art, and wants it on display for three months!
The pieces go up on August 2nd, and come down some time in early November.
The title of the show is, 'Exoskeletal Exaltation'.
Pew Pew Pew by *mantispid

Water I feel adrift in an ocean of sorrow.Water by *mantispid
These tears are lost to the endless, crushing depths.
A torrent of sadness pulls me down, its current fierce... so cold, so dark.
I struggle against the flow, thinking of what was, and what can yet be.
This sea of memories... a lake of hope... a river of desire.
I desperately seek those dark and radiant pools that so easily hold my gaze.
Within them I would gladly drown... and struggle no more.


Air Your presence is a heady breath, a flurry of love's ease...Air by *mantispid
And with your touch my spirit gently floats upon a breeze.
A gust of changing circumstance and you are out of sight,
A darkening horizon leaves me searching for your light.
My thoughts--a raging tempest of both worry and concern,
I cannot find a trace of you--I long for your return.
I catch your scent upon the air, but realize you're not there
I fight against the blowing gales of torturous despair.
This sorrow is a hurricane, these tears are bands of rain
And with them comes a mighty surge of loneliness and pain.
I hear your voice upon the wind... you're nowhere t

Good Nudes vs. Bad Nudes?
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Foreword by $techgnotic
Tue Nov 1, 2011, 3:23 PM
Contours in Context
The argument for the nude in art:
Our visual perception of the human face and then the human body has set the basis since the beginning of
human history for our sense of what is beautiful and what initiates all our seminal ineffable sublime feelings
about the nature of love, life, desire, destiny, eternity, ad infinitum. The curvatures and symmetries of the
human body even lay the geometric basis for the artistic structures of all our art forms, not only for the visua
Also, happy belated birthday Adam!!!
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It was a journal dedicated to talking about artistic nude or soft porn.
Just informing you since I did use your photo as an example.
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Lovely work. I liked it so much I closed the gallery with it.
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