Maria Mangano

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode: no SW, ST, or LOTR)

It’s AI. Bluebirds don’t snuggle like that. Also those are both males because AI can’t tell that most songbirds are sexually dimorphic

What’s a poster you had in your room growing up?

A small rectangular piece of wood, covered in chalk dust, is lying on a wooden table under a colored chalk drawing of flashing police lights.

Found art

A long-haired tabby cat is laying on a white bedspread and looking at the camera. His tongue is sticking out of his mouth just a little bit, but he doesn’t realize it.

Blep.

I’m at avesmaria

I’ll follow you! I think you have to go into your preferences and let anyone send you friend requests and follows. I just looked at mine and saw it was set to nobody allowed to friend me

A drawing of hellebores, an early-blooming flower, done with magenta, green, and white ink and watercolor, on chartreuse paper

Coming up for air from bad cold/power outage/solo parenting with a sketch of the hellebores in my yard

No, AI. 😑

People, who due to autism or any other reason, can't pay taxes, hold a job, play baseball, write a poem, go out on a date, and/or use the toilet without help ~still have value~ and I think that's getting lost

Meditations on Hell “I’m coming to Boston, I’m bringing hell with me.” —Tom Homan, “border czar” and former acting director of ICE - - - Hell is not a lake of fire, no...

"Hell is waking up one morning and feeling like your rights were stripped away overnight, only to realize it’s been happening gradually over your lifetime—and for much of that time, all you did to try to stop it was vote."

Ha ok! Yes it is quite gallows humor here!

The business closing signs have been up for a few months. The tarriff one went up this week though!

A photo of a woman’s torso standing in front of a brick wall. Her upper arm features a freshly completed tattoo in black ink of an American Robin perched in a flowering tree.

Love your turkey vulture! I have two bird tattoos by Pittsburgh tattooist Jessi Cramer! Here’s the big one, an American Robin perched in a redbud tree.

#printpromptmonday this week is #foliage ! Trying to challenge myself with some fast carving so I made this trillium and printed it on some gouache brushstrokes. #reliefprint #printmaking

Thank you! You can’t see this in the image but I have it sketched in so the unicorn is starting a big fire with its horn because that’s a bit where I’m at these days 🫠

This week’s #printpromptmonday is #inprogress so here’s a #linocut I’m carving. It’s a big departure from my bird-centric work but I needed something in my life with a bit of whimsy!

Neat! Thanks and I’ll be checking it out!

Thank you! Yes, literally hundreds of prints 🫠 I attached them to panels that I installed on the gallery wall and that made it go a bit faster.

Detail here of the birds, relief print on reclaimed paper with gouache and watercolor embellishments.

Artwork of thousands of paper birds spiraling towards the corner of a room

Coming very late to #printpromptmonday with this big installation I made in 2019, Lesser Bodies. It’s about the collapse of chimney swift populations in the US. Not in the water, but I was inspired by the motion of water circling a drain.

I’m really enjoying your work. Do you put together multiple plates in one print to get this clear color separation?

Actually that seems like 4/5 of your family. 😸😸 Dad’s quite outnumbered there and should just admit defeat.

Ok so I just finished reading @stephenking.bsky.social ‘s The Stand for the first time and I’ve realized Dump is basically a manifestation of Randall Flagg. Sociopath leading through fear and harsh punishment. Stranger than fiction indeed.

Slight edit: Nazi porn bar

@strangford.bsky.social I definitely had to chase one out of a print studio once! They’re curious little things!

It’s #printpromptmonday and today’s theme is #flipped! Here’s a linocut I printed using the same block twice on one paper. They’re starlings, a beautiful, smart, fascinating bird that’s also invasive where I live (in the US).