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Anna Banana

@artsalad.bsky.social

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Previously from library land. Now: collage, cardmaking, assemblage art, altered art, surrealist banana art, 40-year banana collecting preservationist & related artifacts. bananamuseum.com instagram.com/love.ann.m instagram.com/washingtonbananamuseum

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 27m

Thanks so much ❤️

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 31m

Who expects small things to survive when even the largest get lost? People forget years and remember moments.

Ann Beattie
Where You'll Find Me

#collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #surrealism

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 1d

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botanic mechanic

#collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much 💓

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much!

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 2d

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take me to the water
drop me in the river

#TalkingHeads

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks so much, very appreciated

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 3d

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bird whisperer

background by Winslow Pels

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 5d

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He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

#LennonMcCartney
#NowhereMan

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much. After a while doing this I find it helpful to mismatch things just to see what they'd look like together. Sometimes works, sometimes not!

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 5d

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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

#FriedrichNietzsche

#GrandCentralStation

#collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 6d

Hey. Thanks so much!

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 7d

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

#RobertAHeinlein

#collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 8d

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welcome to the jumble

#collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #assemblageart

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 8d

Love misheard lyrics!

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 9d

And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow?
Going down the old mine with a
Transistor radio

#VanMorrison

#transistorradio #retroradio #collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks so much ❤️

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks so much ❤️

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 9d

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
---- #JohnUpdike

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 11d

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altered #JosephCornell

#collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #surrealcollage #surrealism

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 14d

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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

--- #OgdenNash

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 15d

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

#KurtVonnegut
#Cat’sCradle

#collage #collageart #collageartist #art #artists #analogcollage #collageoftheday #handcut #papercollage #collagework #cutandpaste #blueskycollage

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Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 18d

Well done!

Anna Banana @artsalad.bsky.social · 19d

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
― #ArthurConanDoyle
background by #ChiuraObata
#collage

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