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I like maps.  Not that anyone uses a paper map anymore, in this age of GPS and smart phones.    I think I inherited my love of maps from my father.  He worked in Army intelligence for a few years, translating aerial reconnaissance photography into usable maps.  He wouldn’t say much more about it, of course, but from time to time, he would haul out a stack of beautiful old paper maps and spread them out lovingly for both of us to admire.

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In addition to watching a lot of YouTube, I also like to look at Pinterest.  And over the last few months, as I was wandering around looking at Pinterest images, a project idea started to take shape in my head, helped along quite a bit by a few images I found.  The general idea was of a globe with terraforming machine embedded in the surface and clear geological activity visible.  How to do it was the question of course…

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When I put together my mixed media altered clock, I’d originally planned to use two family heirloom timepieces.  But I only had room for one, leaving my fancy watch needing a home.

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I might have mentioned this before, but I watch a lot of YouTube. A LOT. And one of the largest playlists in my personal YouTube library is for mixed media art. I am particularly fond of the steampunk aesthetic…gears and rust and pipes and valves and mechanical parts that may or may not perform any function.