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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jul 5

Titled Nekhen from my Great Ennead collection, 2023. The Great Ennead was a grouping of nine deities in ancient Egypt. The city of Nekhen, also known as Hierakonpolis (meaning City of Hawks, a reference to Horus) was a religious and political capital of Upper Egypt about 3100 BC.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jul 5

Titled Cactus de Jade from my Death Masks collection, 2024. Inspired by Indigenous American masks and their religious use of hallucinogens.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jul 5

Titled Huckleberry from my True Myths collection, 2025. A tribute to actor Val Kilmer (1959-2025), the movie Tombstone (1993) and the portrayed Doc Holliday (1851-1887). “I’m Your Huckleberry.”

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thanks for "The Storm"!

GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jul 3

Attributed to Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian from 2,000 years ago. I found the quote in The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan. It seems that nothing changes… time for some Reckless Action!

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 17

Titled Lies Sidway from my Into the Dark collection, 2025. Inspired by an Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) photograph of a Crow man, Lies Sideway, from1908. In my treatment the main character displays the spirit of someone important in his life.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 17

Titled Strong for the People from my Still There collection, 2023. My inspiration was a photo of Penahwenonmi (Helping Another, 1840-1938), a survivor of the Nez Perce War (1877).She and the Nez Perce call themselves Nimíipuu (the Real People). Nez Perce women were active participants in the war.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 17

Titled Cabbage from my Glass Iris collection, 2025. Flowers aren’t often my inspiration – this is especially true of irises. By pushing the imagery around I may have turned y iris into a Cabbage.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 17

Titled Viola from my Glass Iris collection, 2025. Flowers aren’t often my inspiration… but here you go, I’m a phytologist. Viola is Latin for violet.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 16

Ten of my recent BluSky art listings with assorted themes: Wounded Knee, artist friends, Dante’s Inferno, an Italian dark forest, French Romantics, Greek Bulls, silent movie stars, Indigenous spirits, and spirt portals.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 7

Titled Wounded Knee from my I’m a Better Artist than You collection, 2022. Inspired by one of my best artist friends [that I’ve never met]. In my mind the image presents an American Indian spirit figure, a ghost dancer. The Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec 1890) killed 250 Lakota men, women and children.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 7

Titled Homeland from my I’m a Better Artist than You collection, 2022. Inspired by one of my best artist friends [that I’ve never met].

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 6

Titled Dis from my Selva Oscura [Italian: Dark Forest] collection, 2025. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno, the narrative poem by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). At the end Dante finds the Devil at the bottom of the last of 9 levels of Hell. Dis is the Roman name for the underground god.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 6

Titled Bice from my Selva Oscura [Italian: Dark Forest] collection, 2025. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno, the narrative poem by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Bice or Beatrice, is a symbol of Divine Love and is an important female character in Dante’s works [and real life].

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 1

An older BluSky post that I thought needed a few more eyes. Titled Reflection from my Mujer de Arenisca collection, 2024. Mujer de Arenisca is Sandstone Woman in Spanish. Piece was inspired by the art of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823), a French Romantic painter and draughtsman.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · Jun 1

A BluSky repost for Greek Moothology fans. Titled Pasiphaë from my Bouillon Cubes collection, 2025. Pasiphaë, wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur monster. Minos insulted Posiden’s gift of a white bull, the god caused Pasiphaë to fall in love with the bull resulting in the monster.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · May 31

Titled The Great Lover from my Silent Men collection, 2024. Inspired by a publicity photo of American film actor, John [Jack] Gilbert (1897–1936). He rose to fame during the silent era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover." Jack’s career declined with Talkies and alcohol.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · May 31

Titled Blusa Amarilla [Spanish: Yellow Blouse] from my De Larva Reali [Italian: From Royal Larvae] collection, 2024. Inspired by an early publicity photo of American actress, Joan Crawford (1904–1977). Her career started as a dancer, then to Broadway, then movies and then top box office movies.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · May 31

Titled Tobe Spirit from my Portals collection, 2025. The piece depicts an American Indian, a “spirit to be”, a ghost, waiting in a Chaco Canyon Purgatory. At the back of the rooms is a doorway/portal to another level of the underworld, but the ghost subject must wait until the right time comes.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · May 31

Titled Lucy from my Portals collection, 2025. Inspired by an 1899 photo of an Oglala woman, Lucy Red Cloud Afraid of Horse (1881-1938). She seems to have spent her life in South Dakota. I’ve made Lucy a guide at the entrance to a portal to the Underworld.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · May 30

Four of my recent BluSky art listings: A Chavin Spider. A fanciful SR-71, Blackbird. stack of Centipedes. A Human Skull.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · May 30

My recent BluSky art listings with an Indigenous American theme: Standing Bear & habeas corpus. Omaha Dancer. Ada Blackjack & Wrangel Island (north of Siberia). Death at the Carlisle Indian School. Six on the Bear. Benjamin Damon (Diné).

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · May 14

Titled Standing Bear from my Out of the Dark collection, 2024. Inspired by a photo from about 1898 of Standing Bear (1829–1908), a Ponca chief who successfully argued in the U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans have the right of habeas corpus -- sounds like current events.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · May 14

Titled Omaha Dancer from my Out of the Dark collection, 2024. Inspired by a photo by Frank Rinehart (1861-1928) from the 1898 Indian Congress [in conjunction with Trans-Mississippi International Exposition]. The Congress was the largest gathering of American Indian tribes of its kind to that date.

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GreenMan @greenman508.bsky.social · May 13

This is a repost of 4 of my earlier BlueSky art posts – maybe abstracts, but the images originate from real objects. 1) History, an Isthmian gold Royal Flycatcher; 2) Trompeta del Jaguar, a Moche ceramic horn; 3) Seventh Heaven, an Aztec god; and 4) After Icarus, constructed from crushed auto cubes.

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