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Pat Ludwig

@avataristic.bsky.social

Handmade art photography using traditional stone tools. NOT AI. All images-words original unless otherwise noted.

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State of the Onion (2026) Photo collage incorporating Jasper Johns Flag II and Jack Whitten 09-11-01 and rotting onion.

State of the Onion (2026) Photo collage incorporating Jasper Johns Flag II and Jack Whitten 09-11-01 and rotting onion.

State of the Onion (2026)

Photo collage incorporating Jasper Johns Flag II and Jack Whitten 09-11-01 and rotting onion.

27.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Erosion of the Multiverse (2026) The multiverse is portrayed in this abstract image as a series of circular windows into a multitude of world-spanning dimensions. All is well and good but the surface between world seems to be eroding.

Erosion of the Multiverse (2026) The multiverse is portrayed in this abstract image as a series of circular windows into a multitude of world-spanning dimensions. All is well and good but the surface between world seems to be eroding.

Erosion of the Multiverse (2026)

25.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Calla Rose (2026) An image of a bouquet of Calla lilies whose petals are textured with different applique patterns. When viewed together they appear to be an enormous bloom of a rose.

Calla Rose (2026) An image of a bouquet of Calla lilies whose petals are textured with different applique patterns. When viewed together they appear to be an enormous bloom of a rose.

Calla Rose (2026)

22.02.2026 13:06 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Our Goals Within (2026) An imaginative self-portrait of our inner striving and how it flowers. Flow lines of energy and turmoil gathered together to find peace and enlightenment in inner contemplation.

Our Goals Within (2026) An imaginative self-portrait of our inner striving and how it flowers. Flow lines of energy and turmoil gathered together to find peace and enlightenment in inner contemplation.

Our Goals Within (2026)

20.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mr. Mushroom (2026) A surreal portrait of a face with wings of mushroom gills in deep gold, red, and brown. THE INVENTION OF MUSHROOMS Dead bark makes the best mask. It hangs in the wind, changing its faces of pain for you until you merge with the roar and go deep through the three holes to another form of life, so slow like sleep it's taken ten years just to push a log through orange gills. Others have landed like pale spaceships, cones of white meat stepping up the sides of trees, or brown heads nodding you on from the underside of death. You listen hard for the thin highway you left. It says dead. So you roll the boulder over you and sink in the slow growth of mushrooms - Jack Myers

Mr. Mushroom (2026) A surreal portrait of a face with wings of mushroom gills in deep gold, red, and brown. THE INVENTION OF MUSHROOMS Dead bark makes the best mask. It hangs in the wind, changing its faces of pain for you until you merge with the roar and go deep through the three holes to another form of life, so slow like sleep it's taken ten years just to push a log through orange gills. Others have landed like pale spaceships, cones of white meat stepping up the sides of trees, or brown heads nodding you on from the underside of death. You listen hard for the thin highway you left. It says dead. So you roll the boulder over you and sink in the slow growth of mushrooms - Jack Myers

Mr. Mushroom (2026)

18.02.2026 14:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Creation Myth (2026) Colorful abstract in bright hot colors with flow line suggesting the energy of creation and a growing seed of life. Creation Myth Born again on a Monday under a broken zodiac. My father the woodman, a surgeon among snags, could read the living trail of blades rebounding in the field, the mopped-matte passage through the dew. He woke a brush pile with fire throwing shadows on the child, I was thrown over. Father, it was a pleasure to meet you on this luminous route between two lives. In this impromptu pool reaped from rain where mosquitos multiply. Though survival, I’m told, is impersonal and without teleological purpose. Malaria is just trying to maximize its own fitness as are the corporations who, for palm oil set the peatlands ablaze and drained the water table. Dense haze from the sea choked the light from day suffused our mountain in a numinous red corona. And as for the getting over there will be no ascension, no circumambulation, there is only going through. We must go through it. - Lisa Wells

Creation Myth (2026) Colorful abstract in bright hot colors with flow line suggesting the energy of creation and a growing seed of life. Creation Myth Born again on a Monday under a broken zodiac. My father the woodman, a surgeon among snags, could read the living trail of blades rebounding in the field, the mopped-matte passage through the dew. He woke a brush pile with fire throwing shadows on the child, I was thrown over. Father, it was a pleasure to meet you on this luminous route between two lives. In this impromptu pool reaped from rain where mosquitos multiply. Though survival, I’m told, is impersonal and without teleological purpose. Malaria is just trying to maximize its own fitness as are the corporations who, for palm oil set the peatlands ablaze and drained the water table. Dense haze from the sea choked the light from day suffused our mountain in a numinous red corona. And as for the getting over there will be no ascension, no circumambulation, there is only going through. We must go through it. - Lisa Wells

Creation Myth (2026)

16.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Big Bowl of Love (2026) An image of a bowl in dark blue texture filled with Love, sitting in a textured sky of granite

Big Bowl of Love (2026) An image of a bowl in dark blue texture filled with Love, sitting in a textured sky of granite

Perlan Mín (2005) Perln mín (My Pearl) an image of my lovely wife enjoying an Ice Cream cone in The Pearl in Reykjavik Iceland. Her image floats in my memory above and behind her.

Perlan Mín (2005) Perln mín (My Pearl) an image of my lovely wife enjoying an Ice Cream cone in The Pearl in Reykjavik Iceland. Her image floats in my memory above and behind her.

Big Bowl of Love (2026)

- Big Bowl of Love
- Perlan mín (2005)

14.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Urban Decay #5: Hooters goes tits-up A surreal image of a Hooters restaurant fallen into bankruptcy decay at long last. Falling interest in their tired formula of cheerful exploitation has forced them to close 30 restaurants across the US. Hopefull if this doesn't drive them out of business, investment banking restructuring will!

Urban Decay #5: Hooters goes tits-up A surreal image of a Hooters restaurant fallen into bankruptcy decay at long last. Falling interest in their tired formula of cheerful exploitation has forced them to close 30 restaurants across the US. Hopefull if this doesn't drive them out of business, investment banking restructuring will!

Urban Decay #5: Hooters goes tits-up

13.02.2026 14:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Upstream (2026) Abstract image of flow-lines in gold and brown interspersed with a sea of colorful turkey-tail mushroom gills finding their way upward against the tide.

Upstream (2026) Abstract image of flow-lines in gold and brown interspersed with a sea of colorful turkey-tail mushroom gills finding their way upward against the tide.

Upstream (2026)

11.02.2026 15:22 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Prisoners of the Vortex (2026) A golden vortex with its concentric rings imprisoning a crowd worshipping a gigantic eye, raising their hands in obedience as they sink further into its depths. Vortex The town’s trees, roomy with winter, have begun of late to fill with them, a settling that commences with dusk. The widows complain — claim they can smell them, can hear them shuffling in the trees, a wing hitting a branch a sound sharp, they say, as ice cracking. They cannot sleep. And so you form a committee, convening with shotguns to fire every night into the darkling congregation. Every night, the air resounds with that resolve, and every dusk they return with theirs, circle, a lazy familiar vortex around a drain, an old appointment they keep with an inescapable place; this argument no way, Claude says, to be any less afraid. - Claudia Emerson

Prisoners of the Vortex (2026) A golden vortex with its concentric rings imprisoning a crowd worshipping a gigantic eye, raising their hands in obedience as they sink further into its depths. Vortex The town’s trees, roomy with winter, have begun of late to fill with them, a settling that commences with dusk. The widows complain — claim they can smell them, can hear them shuffling in the trees, a wing hitting a branch a sound sharp, they say, as ice cracking. They cannot sleep. And so you form a committee, convening with shotguns to fire every night into the darkling congregation. Every night, the air resounds with that resolve, and every dusk they return with theirs, circle, a lazy familiar vortex around a drain, an old appointment they keep with an inescapable place; this argument no way, Claude says, to be any less afraid. - Claudia Emerson

Prisoners of the Vortex (2026)

09.02.2026 12:29 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Converging Views of the River (2026) The Saint John River seen from the shore in Summer and Autumn merged together from memory under a cloudy sky.

Converging Views of the River (2026) The Saint John River seen from the shore in Summer and Autumn merged together from memory under a cloudy sky.

Converging Views of the River (2026)

#saintjohnriver
#newbrunswick

07.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Memory Rocks (2026) An image of etherial but imposing rocks gathered from memory on a beach where memories remember. Ars Poetica Story takes her skin. Story takes her bones. She finds her toes and her fingertips. When she speaks, like salmon running, the dead and the living converge. The river of memory rocks the hunger of claws and tongues. Electricity swallows itself back through its double-prod picana, bullets dislodge themselves from their chore of destroying the same day over and over again, and from the caverns of fear and revision, skin resurrects the skin. Each sentence closes in like the crawl of split skin sealing its red, wet avulsion. The enormity of the pending night scares the seven assassins on trial. They understand that in hell, they will eat their own throats. - Ruth Irupé Sanabria

Memory Rocks (2026) An image of etherial but imposing rocks gathered from memory on a beach where memories remember. Ars Poetica Story takes her skin. Story takes her bones. She finds her toes and her fingertips. When she speaks, like salmon running, the dead and the living converge. The river of memory rocks the hunger of claws and tongues. Electricity swallows itself back through its double-prod picana, bullets dislodge themselves from their chore of destroying the same day over and over again, and from the caverns of fear and revision, skin resurrects the skin. Each sentence closes in like the crawl of split skin sealing its red, wet avulsion. The enormity of the pending night scares the seven assassins on trial. They understand that in hell, they will eat their own throats. - Ruth Irupé Sanabria

Memory Rocks (2026)

05.02.2026 13:03 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Heinrich's Big Day Out (2025)

Photo collage after Heinrich Klumbies
"Between the Houses of Levici"

03.02.2026 15:44 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Textured Landscape #1 (2026) First in a series of landscapes using bright texture patterns to define parts of the scene adding a form of depth to a flat abstract image.

Textured Landscape #1 (2026) First in a series of landscapes using bright texture patterns to define parts of the scene adding a form of depth to a flat abstract image.

Textured Landscape #1 (2026)

01.02.2026 15:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Semi-Precious (2026) An surreal image of Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland where the cascading water is filled with semi-precious stones which pool underneath it.

Semi-Precious (2026) An surreal image of Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland where the cascading water is filled with semi-precious stones which pool underneath it.

Semi-Precious (2026)

30.01.2026 13:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Unity of Wood (2026) A view out of a window at the Unity Temple superimposed with a the wave patterns on a piece of wood. The view shows at its center, a lovely snow-covered tree. The Unity Temple in Oak Park IL was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Unitarian faith in his Prairie style and incorporates many details showcasing wood as a design object.

Unity of Wood (2026) A view out of a window at the Unity Temple superimposed with a the wave patterns on a piece of wood. The view shows at its center, a lovely snow-covered tree. The Unity Temple in Oak Park IL was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Unitarian faith in his Prairie style and incorporates many details showcasing wood as a design object.

Unity of Wood (2026)

28.01.2026 13:49 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Between Fear and The Other (2026) Symbolic and surreal abstract of fear facing The Other with emotions heightened and fear dominating. Kind of like life in the USA for those poor souls who came here for the promise of freedom and a better life. Fear of Flying Why did the chicken cross the road? When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, to get to the other side. But when she is feeling better, she ambles lighter and for lesser causes. Sometimes just to shift her feathers. You can't really die from riding high, from passing well from one encounter to the next, from sign to sign. Roll, red-faced, like planets roll, fat in the dream of time. You can't die from riding high, though you may feel it. Why did the chicken put feet to the street? To survive it. The road is long, but it is not wide. You can live through it. Even unwebbed toes tread the moat, we note, and laugh on the other side. - Jennifer Michael Hecht

Between Fear and The Other (2026) Symbolic and surreal abstract of fear facing The Other with emotions heightened and fear dominating. Kind of like life in the USA for those poor souls who came here for the promise of freedom and a better life. Fear of Flying Why did the chicken cross the road? When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, to get to the other side. But when she is feeling better, she ambles lighter and for lesser causes. Sometimes just to shift her feathers. You can't really die from riding high, from passing well from one encounter to the next, from sign to sign. Roll, red-faced, like planets roll, fat in the dream of time. You can't die from riding high, though you may feel it. Why did the chicken put feet to the street? To survive it. The road is long, but it is not wide. You can live through it. Even unwebbed toes tread the moat, we note, and laugh on the other side. - Jennifer Michael Hecht

Between Fear and The Other (2026)

26.01.2026 13:32 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Outside In (2026) Its a dark clear and frigid night with snow on the trees. The trees have sought refuge inside the house where its still daytime.

Outside In (2026) Its a dark clear and frigid night with snow on the trees. The trees have sought refuge inside the house where its still daytime.

Outside In (2026)

24.01.2026 16:58 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bad Bunny (2026) A surreal abstract of many textures and colors depicting a Bad Bunny on the move...

Bad Bunny (2026) A surreal abstract of many textures and colors depicting a Bad Bunny on the move...

Bad Bunny (2026)

22.01.2026 14:12 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Virgin Birth (2026) Surreal image of a flower-like pattern on beach sand with a large stone emerging from the bottom portion as though giving birth.

Virgin Birth (2026) Surreal image of a flower-like pattern on beach sand with a large stone emerging from the bottom portion as though giving birth.

Virgin Birth (2026)

20.01.2026 13:27 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Areas of Influence (2026) An image of fields of separated color thrown together with one area dominant. A layer of fluidity in the dominant area shows the watchful eye spreading its view to capture all other areas around it. From “The Invention of Influence” Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of   his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation might not be the work instead of   hidden channels of memory leading back to the notions of others absorbed, coming now anew into form he’d almost known within him was growing. He called it (the ghost of a) cryptomnesia. So we own and owe what we know. - Peter Cole

Areas of Influence (2026) An image of fields of separated color thrown together with one area dominant. A layer of fluidity in the dominant area shows the watchful eye spreading its view to capture all other areas around it. From “The Invention of Influence” Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of   his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation might not be the work instead of   hidden channels of memory leading back to the notions of others absorbed, coming now anew into form he’d almost known within him was growing. He called it (the ghost of a) cryptomnesia. So we own and owe what we know. - Peter Cole

Areas of Influence (2026)

18.01.2026 13:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Gathering of the Aged (2026) An image of a cluster of large rocks huddled together on the beach as is common for their age. even the rocks are dying even the rocks are dying. now that we’re here in a cene of our making, time to hold what’s left. palm sized & glossy we call out to other guts, flayed green crystal planes of tempered stone. we call out to each other then complain about the echo. - marion eames white

Gathering of the Aged (2026) An image of a cluster of large rocks huddled together on the beach as is common for their age. even the rocks are dying even the rocks are dying. now that we’re here in a cene of our making, time to hold what’s left. palm sized & glossy we call out to other guts, flayed green crystal planes of tempered stone. we call out to each other then complain about the echo. - marion eames white

Gathering of the Aged (2026)

16.01.2026 14:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Near Jenness Beach (2026) A beach scene on a sunny day with the sun glowing on the rocky shore in gold, green, blue, and brown. A small house overlooks the ocean.

Near Jenness Beach (2026) A beach scene on a sunny day with the sun glowing on the rocky shore in gold, green, blue, and brown. A small house overlooks the ocean.

Near Jenness Beach (2026)

14.01.2026 13:44 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Memento Mori (2026) An image of a sculptured garden fountain attached to a gate or tombstone, discolored by time with elements of bruised purple tones and black bleeding through.

Memento Mori (2026) An image of a sculptured garden fountain attached to a gate or tombstone, discolored by time with elements of bruised purple tones and black bleeding through.

Memento Mori (2026)

12.01.2026 12:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Usonian Boundary Issues (2026) Unexpected consequences where structure merges with its environment. A scene where the living room of a Usonian house merges with its exterior and surrounding landscape. In 1936, Wright developed a series of homes he called Usonian. They were designed to control costs. Wright's Usonian houses had no attics, no basements, and little ornamentation. He continued to develop the concept, and in the early 1950s he first used the term Usonian Automatic to describe a Usonian style house made of inexpensive concrete blocks. The modular blocks could be assembled in a variety of ways. Wright hoped that home buyers could save money by building their own Usonian Automatic houses. But assembling the modular parts proved too complicated for most hired contractors to build. (From Frank Lloyd Wright library on Usonian Automatic homes) #usonian #franklloydwright #boundaryissues

Usonian Boundary Issues (2026) Unexpected consequences where structure merges with its environment. A scene where the living room of a Usonian house merges with its exterior and surrounding landscape. In 1936, Wright developed a series of homes he called Usonian. They were designed to control costs. Wright's Usonian houses had no attics, no basements, and little ornamentation. He continued to develop the concept, and in the early 1950s he first used the term Usonian Automatic to describe a Usonian style house made of inexpensive concrete blocks. The modular blocks could be assembled in a variety of ways. Wright hoped that home buyers could save money by building their own Usonian Automatic houses. But assembling the modular parts proved too complicated for most hired contractors to build. (From Frank Lloyd Wright library on Usonian Automatic homes) #usonian #franklloydwright #boundaryissues

Usonian Boundary Issues (2026)

Unexpected consequences where structure merges with its environment.

#usonian
#franklloydwright
#boundaryissues

09.01.2026 13:48 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hideaway (2026) An image of a cottage hidden in the forest overgrown with moss.

Hideaway (2026) An image of a cottage hidden in the forest overgrown with moss.

Hideaway (2026)

07.01.2026 13:21 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Tomorrow the Stars (2026) An image of magic realism where a quiet cold winter night with a moon close to full is giving away to a galaxy of stars.

Tomorrow the Stars (2026) An image of magic realism where a quiet cold winter night with a moon close to full is giving away to a galaxy of stars.

Tomorrow the Stars (2026)

05.01.2026 13:36 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Dissolving Distances (2026) A multi-layered image of a forest superimposed with a view of mountains and a body of water. Deep greens and burnt orange with elements of blue swirl together.

Dissolving Distances (2026) A multi-layered image of a forest superimposed with a view of mountains and a body of water. Deep greens and burnt orange with elements of blue swirl together.

Dissolving Distances (2026)

02.01.2026 15:07 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Big Boutonniere with Buttons (2025) A bright yellow and white bouquet exploding out of a red and white field of buttons and a play on the word boutonniere normally placed in a buttonhole.

Big Boutonniere with Buttons (2025) A bright yellow and white bouquet exploding out of a red and white field of buttons and a play on the word boutonniere normally placed in a buttonhole.

Big Boutonniere with Buttons (2025)

31.12.2025 19:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Infestivus (2025) "Infestivus - For the last of us" A sprawling Chistmas tree infested with the spirit of commercialism and anxiety but still looking pretty.

Infestivus (2025) "Infestivus - For the last of us" A sprawling Chistmas tree infested with the spirit of commercialism and anxiety but still looking pretty.

Infestivus (2025)

"Infestivus - For the last of us"

#infestivusforthelastofus

29.12.2025 16:20 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0