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Mickey’s in Cognitive Decline

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Sober Artist and mother in TX finding new ways to create and live with progressive illness. Agender, Queer, Autistic, Trauma and Coma survivor. (Re)living their life. Over 18 is best.

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Mickey’s in Cognitive Decline @mickeybiz.bsky.social · Oct 11

Howdy, I’m Mickey.
Medically retired professional artist, mother, and curious human living with progressive illness.
Believer in ✨Community✨
I share old projects and works,
Works from current photo series on body and identity
And general bits of life scattered about.
I’m a bit of a nerd.
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Mixed media illustration of two kids throwing leaves in the air. Sky is mottled watercolor blue, leaves and ground are cut paper in brown, tan, and gold. The children have prominent shadows.

A digital double exposure of
1. Self portrait in a vintage sideshow style in front of a dark blue tapestry with fabric stars
2. Image of texas sunset with powerlines
The two blend together in a way that the face seems to emerge from a fiery sky with hints of the tapestry at the top

Photo of me teaching color mixing to young children. One child is pictured. I am using food coloring and water in a science looking beaker set up and wearing my labcoat.

Image of a tired me holding a spade in a backyard that needs a lot of love. I am wearing my shark hat.

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Robert macht Bilder / Robert takes pictures @robertspictures.bsky.social · 10h

#EastCoastKin #ArtChallenge
#WackyWednesdayArt

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🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 13h

people thinking they are clever ask “what is a woman” when the question to ask is “what is a body”

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Sidenote: i love that sweater.
I am also jealous of that sweater. 🫠

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Bambino playing Silksong:

“Why is this guy so nimbly bimbly?!?”

Me: :::spits out tea:::

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Yep. The costumed protesters are bringing the *right* kind of postmodernism to U.S. politics.

It can’t be the only tool we use. But it might actually be one of the tools we need the most.

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Listened to this one during lunchmakin’ singalong.

The man me and Biscottino were going to go see on Thursday.

I think the whole family likes this track.

youtu.be/epxA7WnDLwo?...

Dermot Kennedy - Rome (Live / Vevo LIFT)

YouTube video by DermotKennedyVEVO

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Jason the punk puppeteer guy @feltheadpuppets.bsky.social · 20h

Hey San Antonio people planning on protesting in a frog suit, the highs in Portland have been around 60 degrees, please don’t die in a frog suit in the south Texas heat

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Love all that visual texture✨🫀

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 22h

Hi there! It's #PortfolioDay again!

I'm an artist north of Boston telling stories about light and atmosphere with oil paints.

I paint both large and small, and my originals are available in my online shop.

tishamark.com

#art #painting #TraditionalArt #bsnm

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Lighting the Dark" 20"x20" oil on linen (2025). This moody, abstract-leaning seascape painting has a textured, orange-toned, atmospheric sky with textured colors of light on the horizon. Light from the sky reflects in the water below as it meets a dark, rocky, tree-lined coast.

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Knowing Glances" 7"x5" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). This painting has white textured clouds in a moody gray-blue sky over a dark blue sea that is meeting a rocky shore. There are delightful bits of green moss and red algae or seaweed on the rocks.

Original autumn landscape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Autumn Mini No. 2501" 4"x4" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). The painting shows a body of water reflecting colors from a sunset sky surrounded by trees that are turning red, brown, and gold.

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "We Met Along the Way" 14"x11" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). A seascape painting with a gray-blue sky with textured, atmospheric cloud formations over a dark blue sea. Waves are meeting a rocky shore, and there are hints of green moss or algae on the rocks.

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Another brain scan artwork (2024)

#SciArt #neuro #chronicillness

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Brain scan and photography composite/digital collage

Two different views from an MRI scan overlap and create the main form of this image. The background is black, but grained in areas. Photographs of dandelions, bluebonnets, and a couple of photographs of Mickey in poses with flowers as heads are all along the base of the scans and stretch up into it in areas.

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Disjointed View

Digital triple exposure

Sono Una Fotografia
On body, degenerative disease, perception, and identity

#photography #classicmono #blackandwhite #ArtofSelfPortraiture #eastcoastkin #chronicillness #dementia

Very light and airy image created from 3 self portraits of Mickey. At the bottom is an extreme closeup of Mickey’s eyes which blend up into a portrait of their face and shoulders and one of almost their whole body seated and taken from above.
The eyes of all three images stand out against the haze and confusion of overlapping shapes.

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One of my Most Favorite follows. Most Excellent Artist, Musician, and Human✨

Lëspreüh @lespreuh.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay , here I assembling small lines to create things with teeth, feathers & tentacles

Dessin colorisé d'une reine crapaud portant couronne, cape et sceptre. Elle a un cœur sur la poitrine et garde sous ses pattes couvert de bijoux, un tas de pièces d'or. Derrière elle un cadre rond de style art nouveau, au-dessus une mare couvert de nénuphars

Dessin noir et blanc d'un crâne d'oiseau emmêlé d'un fil et dessous duquel sortent des tentacules. Autour flottent des plumes et des petites clés. En arrière plan un vitrail central entouré de livres anciens posés sur des étagères

Dessin noir et blanc d'un évêque squelette portant une mitre et muni de cierges à la place des mains et de tentacules à la place des jambes. Autour de lui flottent des livres. En-dessous des têtes à la bouche grande ouverte semblant psalmodier de sombres litanies

Dessin colorisé d'une musicienne jouant du luth dans la forêt, assise sur un tronc couché, pour de dansants champignons

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Vojta Hybl @vojtahybl.com · 1d

Ahh I wrote & illustrated my first book!

It’s been a secret I’ve kept for over a year, but very excited to finally reveal ROCKS – published by @quartobooksuk.bsky.social in March 2026!

You can pre-order from all the usual places here: geni.us/Rocks

#SciArt #PortfolioDay #illustrator #BookSky

A beige book cover with a grey rock in the middle cut by white streaks. The title says ROCKS, below, the subtitle is A Guide to the Stones Around Us and the Stories They Tell, Vojta Hybl. Illustrations of rocks surround the cover.

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay 🙂‍↕️🙌 I'm a Dutch artist who primarily works in marine life themed sculpture 🐙🪸

🏠 SculptedReef.com
💌 [email protected]

Makana, a hand sculpted clay octopus depicting the species octopus cyanea. Its arms are swirling around its body and it leans back on three of them.

Aurora, a sculpture depicting the Caribbean Reef Octopus. A bluish teal octopus with webbed maroon patterns and bright green patches around the eyes.

A mixed media artwork featuring a hand sculpted octopus depicting the species Larger Pacific Striped Octopus and corals woven from tiny glass beads.

A mixed media artwork featuring two hand sculpted octopus depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus and colorful corals woven from tiny glass beads.

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Em Kait @vladhat.bsky.social · 23h

#PortfolioDay 🎉

I do linocut on here and sell prints and pins at vladhat.com

The vampire hunting kit pin opens and closes.

#art #artsky #printsky #printmaking #crafts #traditionalart #blockprint #linocut #bsnm

Linocut of a rat in a bathtub with a crown dangling off his tail while drinking wine and surrounded by candles and a sword

Enamel pin of a Mari Lwyd with a bell in its teeth (decorated horse skull with a red and black sheet)

Linocut of two robed figures in a temple with a black goat all holding ceremonial objects

Vampire hunting kit enamel pin in red featuring a gun, silver bullets, Bible, knife, salt, mallet, stakes, garlic, and holy water

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trashplusart🎨🐈‍⬛🐕🎶 @trashplusart.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like Harold's tap dancing in his dreams!
#dog #dogs #dogpic #dogsofbluesky #dogssleeping #dogdreams

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Randalynn @fultzywultzyart.bsky.social · 23h

Is it #portfolioday ?

Hi, I'm Randi. I am a freelance illustrator who does whatever gigs come her way. I also work on a comic called Nothing Ever Happens, and occasionally, I write and illustrate children's books. Also, sometimes I teach art!

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 22h

Drew Struzan, the legendary cinema artists, illustrator and Poster art extraordinaire has sadly passed away.

Rest in peace, Drew. Your impact on the arts will live on forever more. 😔
#DrewStruzan

Drew Struzan sits at a San Diego ComicCon table in a denim shirt.

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Mornin’, Jake n Pumpkin✨