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Today's prompt: Get messy

Score: Get Messy

A photo of a handwritten performance score

Visit Artist zanni (they/them) CT

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To be heard

Visit Artist Tyler F

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Working with Kids

The highs and lows. Digital drawing and photograph

Visit Artist Molly Palmrock

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Digitigal black and white cat

Visit Artist Allan Sykes

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Keep Left

tiny pencil drawing of street graffiti sign decaying and falling on the floor in pieces and floating away.

Visit Artist Alice K

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Creating

Starting to work with clay, the highs, the lows, the mess and the experiment

Visit Artist Violeta Tataru

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Long Coffee & Shadow

Drawing in brown pencil on cream paper of a long coffee cup with turned feet and looped handle

Visit Artist Licia Bronzin

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Messy Entanglement

Photo of tangled length of string on grey background. Two shadows, maybe seats, facing scene. Contasted with clean dark straight lines

Visit Artist Deborah Crosby

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untitled

analogue collage

Visit Artist Ela Skorska

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Window 2

a pattern of white/yellow squares that look a bit like windows on a very black background

Visit Artist Alison McIntyre

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I collect dried flowers

I got lots of flowers and magic inside of me.

Visit Artist ioana vasile

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reality.

Visit Artist Isabella Victorie A.

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