Category: Mania

• A Freewheeling Frenzy!

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  10/23/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, disability, dreams, Excellence, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, Impressionist, insomnia, Job, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Marketing Stategy, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mixed media, Oil, out of the gutter, pain, painting, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repurposed, Retirement,, Saving Money, sobriety, Success, Surrealism, Therapy, Top, treasures, Uncategorized, voyages

  I have to get the mix just right: a smidgen of anxiety, a pinch of hunger, a good dose of caffeine and just about 48 hours without sleep and *BAM*! The NY creative lightning strikes! Tonight was the night, today was the day, cleaning off my museum pieces with fine brushes, repairing and sprucing up…

• The Cathouse

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  10/18/2020

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, cats, concrete art, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Found Objects, garden art, Garden art,, gift, God, gratitude, Hope, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mixed media, painting, Photography, recycled art, sobriety, Success, Therapy, treasures

  Been trapping feral kitties this weekend…but not to kill them. Yay! I’ve been working with a nonprofit called Meow Now, which I believe has chapters nationwide. They catch, neuter/spay , vaccinate and bring back the cats. This then allows the colony to live a healthy life and controls the population of feral cats… An established…

  

• HIGH Time

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  10/14/2020

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  art, Bipolar Art, career, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Employment, faith, Finances, Found Objects, garden art, Garden art,, gift, gratitude, Hope, Joy, learning, Making Money, Management, Mania, Marketing Stategy, mental illness, Mixed media, painting, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repurposed, Success, Therapy, Uncategorized, whimsical art

  “introducing SUTI’S Whimsies, Susan T. Martin’s Joyful, Buoyant Designs…

  

• Yellow Belly.

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  10/04/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, career, caregiving, cats, concrete art, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Eternal Life, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, HighFinance, Hope, hospice, identity, Impressionist, insomnia, Investing in Art, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, moving day, moving on, Murals, oceans, Oil, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, Success, Surrealism, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized, Vigil, voyages

  …Random Words, Targeted Pain….Red, Yellow, Green and Brown Pain…White Pain…My Pain…

  

• FAIL…SAFE?

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  10/02/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, Excellence, Flashbacks, garden art, God, gratitude, Hope, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, outsider art, pain, painting, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repentance, Serenity, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized

  “…a drive to put what is playing on my internal projector out into the real world, for others to see…”

  

• Starting Over, Over Again

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  09/29/2020

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, clean, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, garden art, gift, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Murals, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, poems, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Therapy, Uncategorized

  “… can you see me going mad in here?…”

  

• IN the DOGHOUSE

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  09/23/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Best, Bipolar Art, career, Chronic Depression, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Employment, Excellence, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, horses, Impressionist, Investing in Art, Joy, Making Money, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, Murals, Oil, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, Photography, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Saving Money, shih-tzus, Success, Surrealism, Therapy, Uncategorized

  …there is a niggling worry, about the big C…CO I mean…VID…

  

• Over the Humpty-Dump

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  09/17/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Best, Bipolar Art, digital art, Excellence, Hope, insomnia, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, moving day, moving on, outsider art, pain, painting, paradise Earth, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, shih-tzus, Surrealism, Therapy, treasures

  Oh, the fun of a downward spiral…After a week or two of just mind blowing energy and creativity, comes the inevitable crash. This time it was about a week of doldrums, pain, negativity and actual physical illness, all of which I attribute to this illness called Bipolar Disorder. The worst part of a depressive episode,…