Creative work is alchemy. It is an honest process, that sometimes culminates something that can touch the honest places in other people too. Art,
Why try bird’s eye?
On the art & science of mapping, and our physical positioning in relationship to the places we depict. Maps may have come about, in part, to
Most Recent Visual Art
I make visual art on Instagram when prose just can't hold the message.
One-Third School, Two-Thirds Sky
I've had so many things on my mind lately, and much of it related to the sky: blues, clouds, galaxies, light and dark matter, and accelerating
recent visual work
Birth of VenusMarkup on photo AVMarkup on photo Visual Works © September 2025 Elizabeth Mullen Matteson | Contact for licensing.
Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project
On the checkerboard of life, the right thing is finding its way to you, as you are to it.~ My Mom Artwork: No Title by the author 2024 I love
A Rich Background
[originally published via newsletter on 7/29/2025] "I want RRRIIICCCCH Surfaces!" Richard Calabro commanded our college art class with twinkling
Emergence ⟺ submergence
Acknowledging your submerged self, the media you choose to portray it, and The Beatles. Have your ever felt that you are emerging from something?
Sundials & Compasses
Because my writing like this last post is often a long and complex weave of many ideas1 , I'm writing this short post as a palate cleanser. I also
Becoming a writer
Play on words, Play with words: what do you want to know about you? My first poem, which I can recite by heart, woke me up. I wrote it with crayon
The toilet in my back yard
And the knowing that comes from an 'in house' metaphor. Last month, we cashed in some Apple shares to have a friend's brother fix our bathroom.
Lady of a non-specific location
Our most aligned vantage point exists in our own inner space. But if you also see yourself in part through others' eyes things can get complicated.
making one’s own language
Correspondence, energy, and how to gain self-awareness through making your language, your way. Actually, I'm working on more of symbol set, but
Veiling & The Blues
On my walk today, I found a painted blue trail blaze on the ground. The tree it had been painted on had been stripped of much of its bark. I
Why I make my work freely available
plus a touch of fundraising I believe in the importance of public institutions, especially Public Libraries, Public Education, and Public Art.
an artist date: sketching with the masters
From April 25, the perfect date1. I've noticed recently how many of my favorite thinkers, artists, musicians, and philosophers spent/spend an good
On The Cutting Room Floor
This piece is titled "The Cutting Room" which is sooo META Here's the story: The artwork was "done" and I submitted photos for a gallery
Weaving as an act of wholeness
Do you have a way to engage in the things you loved doing as a child? How would you feel if you did? These last couple of months, I've decided
Mythic Oranges, Waters, and WWII
"Imagine That" Today’s art is in honor of an amazing painter and gentle man, Richard Fraenkel. He was my painting instructor in college. He
Nurse Maid Bird | Movie Mode
I shouldn't be happy when my 15 year old daughter is home sick, but I am. I delight in getting to take care of her because there are so few of these
Terms of Endearment – Acceptance
This is a Terms of Endearment (TOE) post. These are words that keep coming up that I find myself re-defining for my own relief, amusement, and
Take back the alphabet & re-write your life
How work with the most basic building blocks in order to elevate your communication. I've always seen the alphabet as a beautiful grouping of
E=mc² – a reason to make art
A genius creation that exists only inside our minds can't hold a candle to the energy that exists in even the tiniest bit of stuff you make. I
7 | 8 Reflections
alphabets, art, hospitality, & coverings Dear Lisa,This morning I woke up naturally, later than usual and in a warm and dark and quiet place,
Participate in a Public | Digital Search Project
I stole this post, screenshots of my own images, and public research project back from my IG account, where the winners of original physical art will
Artist’s Confidential
AKA pulling apart a piece of art, with some web-weaving via inappropriate footnoting. This entire piece is about a rapidly made Instagram reel
Gail Force
Gail lived with us for several months when I was five years old. Gail was 15 years old at the time, an avid 1970s free spirit, a pot smoker, and
Titles First (and foremost?)
I saw a delightful and giddily relaxed David Bowie1 in an old video clip saying something so true: artists are more comfortable describing their
Through Lines, Titles, & Hiding While Seeking
Thoughts on being an artist and privacy. As an artist who expresses herself through the medium of digital construction, I'd like to introduce
Portals: belying space and time since the beginning of space and time
My woods walk today taught me about portals. They appeared like little natural occurrences that reminded me of the way we try to see things about
Title remains silent
She wanted her confection, her conception to be a "good good." This is because the truth of her experience had told her if there was "good" there was
Seeing vs sighting: a creative’s guide to perspective
Axes, dimensions, observers, and the role of inner perspective. As a girl, one day while standing on the side of a cliff looking out over the
Seeing: a creative’s guide to the senses
philosophical practices in nature -|- the art of trusting your senses The idea to put together this series came this morning in the woods. Most
responsiveness: in websites and in life
I find myself needing to write every day. The swirl of ideas and realizations are vast and without some expressive outlet. So, I'm giving myself 15
em dash — • middot
I love punctuation. It has as much to do with the shape and positioning of the glyphs in relationship to words nearby as anything else. Visual, not
Collage, Mosaic, and Original Art
A Digital (with a tip of the hat to a Da Da-ist) Exploration of the Taj Mahal Nina Paley said "all art is derivative" in 2010, and I wonder if
Collections of an art dilettante
I had a high school art teacher whom I used to bump into in my 20's say to me, "I'm so sorry I suggested you go to that school." She'd drop her head
Reconciling Paradox – an Artist’s Way
Art CV at bottom of this page, includes cyber art citations back to 1997-2003. Here's another installment of my younger self aiming to figure stuff
NFT-y
Back in 2021, I woke up with a start one night, read a random article about NFTs, and set about this new art project. It's not over yet, but did take
