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Kathleen Weldon
@kathleenweldon.bsky.social
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Polling data archivist. Posting mostly about old polling and sometimes new politics. Also like reading about food, art, and quirky history. Oh, and I make collages.
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Cookie day!!
A box of christmas cookies and candies
December 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Day 14 of #artadventcalendar
Repost of a fairly recent one, but it’s one of my favorites
Paper collage, “She Imagined Herself Walking Away” A sketched nude stands on a dark room with black walls and floor and rococo white trim. She stands with her hand lying on a large floor vase, a pile of fabric at her feet. A long shaft of white light cuts across the room to an open door, through which green hills and a blue sky can be seen. At the threshold is another female nude figure, this one even more roughly sketched, stepping toward the opening.
December 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Day 13 of #artadventcalendar
Something a bit dark for my goth friends.
Paper collage: a figure hangs from a tree (photo of an old ivory carving), the tree stand on a stone hill or building with an opening. By the opening stands a raven (crow?) and its footprints show in the snow around it forming a oath to the dark entry. Another raven pecks at the neck of the hanged man. In the crotch of the tree there is a nest. Black, white and brown tones.
December 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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This is not a leading question at all!

This question construction reminds me of Blazing Saddles
Survey question Have you ever consulted or considered consulting a so-called nature healer? By nature healers is meant persons who have not passed mecidal examination such as homeopathists, Faith healers, psychoanalysts (those without medical examination) etc. but exclusive of chiropractors? The people we have in mind are in short those popularly called quacks. Photo from Blazing Saddles, Gene Wilder saying: These are people of the land, the common clay of the new west. You know - morons.”
December 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Day 12, #artadvent calendar
Paper collage, carnival collection, two classical nudes - one facing back, the other forward - stand on some sort of podiume, the side of ehich show panels with galaxies. There is a long ladder in the center like a pole. All in black and white, except the girls have colored feathers in their hair, one wears a green boa. A central panel behind them pf colored paper is topped with a blue reproduction of a painting of medieval women. Cut out letters around them read “girls, girls, girls”
December 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Day 11 #artadventcalendar

Look, you can’t make a monkey omelette without cracking a few monkey eggs.

I don’t know what’s going on here either. It just amused me.
Paper collage. A hand hold a sphere over a measuring cup. There are whole and broken eggs around the cup, and liquid egg spilled around. In the sphere and in two broken eggs sit various ape-type creatures. Look, Im not an expert here. Gibbon, baby chimp, monkey, maybe? The foreground is black, the background blue.
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Adventures in questionable translation: I do in fact find washing the smalls to be “extremely funny”
Denmark 1969
Survey documentation with question n) I am now showing you a card with ordinary domestic activities. Please express your opinion about the single activities, using the scale illustrated. Responses Extremely/very/somewhat funny/ boring Cooking Cleaning Washing up Washing the smalls Washing day Mending/ sewing Shopping (buying food for the family)
December 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Always jarring to see the "race" variable from Crossley 1944. But quite useful for demonstrating that race is 100% a social construct.
Race variable from survey documentation for state-level Crossley election polls, 1944. Question 3. Race: 1. Negro 2. Hebrew 3. Polish 4. Italian
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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It’s day 10 of #artadventcalendar, which means I really have to get some Christmas shopping done.
If you do, too, my new Etsy shop is in my bio.

I put this one up for Christmas in my house.
Paper collage: a small boy is asleep under a red and white quilt. He lies on the back of a sleigh being pulled by a pair of horses, represented in ablue and black. The sleigh is flying through a starry sky, high over white mountains. The mountains are sky are from old black and white photos, the boy and sleigh from drawings in old magazines.
December 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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#artadventcalendar day 9. More tarot.
It took so long to find a fish with a real gaze!
Page of cups tarot card collage. Waves of blue paper make water in which stand a Black male figure immersed to the chest. His blue cloak is covered in flowers and floats behind him. He is staring at a goldfish emerging from a cup and staring back. The cup sits on a ruin. The background is simple white, though a small hot air balloon can be seen rising up to the right.
December 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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day 8 of #artadventcalendar
something wintery
Paper collage of a deer in snow with trees, more snow-covered trees behind, city houses in the far background, and green aurora in the sky.
December 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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It’s day 7 of #artadventcalendar. From a circus series
Paper collage. A sketched nude male figure stands on a platform. Behind him a long ladder reached to the ground, where a crowd is shown in an old black and white photo, from above at a distance, leaving only heads that give an impression of abstracted texture. The crowd makes an arc over a black foreground, which has at its center a stone basin. The water in the basin is a blue and white astronomical illustration, with the planets orbits creating ripples. Wide white on blue stripes in the background indicate a tent. At the top right text reads Remarkable Fall from the Sky.
December 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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#artadventcalendar day 6
Paper collage - sea monster in an ocean under a zeppelin, a woman in an art nouveau style looking on in the foreground - probably a mermaid
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Day five, #artadventcalendar
Paper collage of a mermaid sitting on rocks, in b&w and blue.
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Good morning and happy #artadventcalendar day 4! A throwback to my earliest attempts at collage, when I was using very little color.
Paper collage. A woman opens a robot with wings and removes a small bird from inside. A larger bird sits on the head of the robot. Behind them, mountains, trees. Only the birds are in color.
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Just came across this today
Survey question in translation “do you pay the taxes with pleasure?”
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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The most important Christmas preparation is, of course, the slaughter
Survey questions about most important Christmas preparations, with response options running from gifts to decorating to wood-cutting to cleaning to slaughter.
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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And as always, the rocking, the rolling
At some of the rock-and-roll performances that are arranged nowadays, there is often a pretty heated atmosphere, accompanied by rather destructive behavior. That do you think, - has this interest in rocking and rock-and roll arrangements on the part of the youngsters a positive or a negative influence? 1. Positive influence 2. Negative influence. 14b. Why do you think so? If 14a:1 Depends on the persons who participate Youthful self-expression, harmless Rock is rhythm, it's a dance, a new dance, nothing against dancing. It is a form of entertainment, play, diversion Keeps them away from cafees and restaurants They must have something to do, something to be interested in Keeps them away from committing criminal acts, and from other antisod al behavior. Other: Amusing activity, no importance. Young people must be allowed to have some fun 3 It's too wild. 4 They reach ecstasy, they are quite crazy, wrong type of development, a vulgar hobby, quite inhibited, allone wild, too excited: 5. As a mob they get crazy 6 They get worse and worse, many bad things accompany these rocking-sessions. 7. It's sheer nonsense, is not good. 8. The rock-and-roll stars tend too often to be considered as idols or semi-gods. 9. Too much noise and rambling, excitement, quarrels and excesses. Other: Dancing is no good, they are not grown-up yet, has read about it. I. Causes both damage and crimes.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Only the most pressing issues of the day: should church bells be rung to tell children it‘s time to go home?
Survey questions: do children stay out too late and should church bells be rung to send them home, reasons for why support (children have no watches, parents have no authority Reasons why don’t support ringing church bells, including not the purpose of a church bell, parents should do it, and, simply, nonsense
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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1959, btw. Can someone tell me what a steering wheel sleigh is?
Survey documentation: A question about steering-wheel sleighs for children Do you think that steering-wheel sleighs are more dangerous for children than for instance, sleighs with no wheels or pedomotive sleighs?
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I’m processing some early Norsk Gallup polls, and this is my new favorite collection.
Hard hitting question about christmas greetings Within a month we shall be writing Christmas greetings again. If we write the usual Christmas and New Year seeing us ones, we get away with a cheaper postage. As for the postages do you think it should be important whether one writes 5 words or more on the greeting card? Yes, should play a role. No, should be of no imporTance. Why? 24b. Otherwise one could write a letter on the greeting card, Christmas cards are not letters. 5 words are sufficient, 5 words should do. Don't need to write more than absolutely necessary.
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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#artadventcalendar day three: another tarot card, 3 of wands
Three of wands collage tarot card. A nude figure looks out over hills to the sea, where ships sail. The sly is full of stars, and an old map cuts across the Milky Way. The colors are muted, mostly black and white with a green sea.
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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#artadventcalendar Day two, something from the tarot deck:
The mage: tarot card in black and green, a man in robes before a table with the infinity symbol on front. The table holds cup, sword, wand and coin. A large blue hand is behind his head.
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Finger Lakes folks, the Christmas in Moravia celebration is this weekend www.fingerlakes.org/events/chris... and features collage from yours truly on display (and for sale) at Mackey Ink tattoo shop in its new location.
Resin-coated original paper collages in a lit display case, looking very shiny and snazzy Collage prints on display on a narrow black wall shelving unit in front of a brick wall, along with some prints from paintings by Jeff Perrault
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I’m going to post some old collage for #artadventcalendar Day one, something simple:
Paper collage of a woman in robes with an ancient Greek pr Roman style on a swing high above a landscape. A road made of wooden boards runs under her feet, while on each side of the road shows a ink drawing of a snowy New England village. In the distance, where the road and snow scene end, a photo of green hills and fields shows before a painted light tan sky.
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM