After dropping my 15 year old at drivers ed, I drove around listening to classic rock and landed at the library. Before I forget, Bob Seeger is an
Here’s my story (and I’m not sticking to it)
I've been in between things for some time now. Like in my career. And it is glorious. I mean, literally glorious. Each day feels like an adventure, my
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
pushy, derivative, thieving, lying, child AI.
Ok, first: forgive this title. Yes, it's here to grab your attention, but has less vitriol behind it than perhaps it sounds. Truth is, whether I like
Matchy matchy branding is going, going …
I only have a few minutes to write this. Remember when the sign that a business was "official" was that all their social channels, their website,
If it’s brown…
There's a bell in the bathroom at my mom's house. Like one of those "ring for service," bells that dings when you slap it. Because there's more than a
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
Concise
I made a short 16mm film named Concise. It could be called an avant garde film1 and it was engrossing to make. I made it as a follow up to another
Believing, Knowing and a Timeless Smile
The power of acknowledgement & questions for deep, time-released understanding. Sitting outside at a small red cafe table on Laguardia Place
Stewarding the Internet
Women are used to this in terms of motherhood, being unseen and unpaid: just "expected." Moms do love and care and survival of the species. It's a
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
Flow in the trenches
I used to work at a restaurant run by, as the owner put it, "a team of leaders." I never knew what she meant until the rains came. This
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.
Validation & Credentialing ~ Terms of Endearment for oddly-credentialed kin
I've been pondering the value of credentialing and validation for someone to get recognized for mastery in action, but have personally not chased
Confidence in Community
After working on dozens of special events like gala balls, weddings, music festivals, high-brow fundraisers, and kids' field days, I've come to learn
The Next Generation
Today, I did something out of character. I showed up to volunteer for a PTO thing at my kids' former elementary school. For the record, my kids do not
Embedded – A Term of Endearment
I usually write these Terms of Endearment posts without quoting the dictionary because I want to gain insight as to my personal experience with these
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
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.
Ma-stalgia: a term of endearment for ascendant generations
Nostalgia as sign it's time to reboot our childlike sense of self, and how being states help us cope with a heightened sense of responsibility. My
digital marketing feeds the tech bro machine
I honestly feel like many of the things everyone's been doing with digital marketing is going to fall by the wayside very soon. I've been working
Frequent, see?
A term of endearment post on Frequency My social media is full of coaches, teachers, and offerings which speak to the power of manifestation using
Empathy isn’t pathology, Mr. Musk
If you are feeling a bit too much empathy, and it has you on the floor feeling terrible, don't go to war with it, up-level it into compassion. It
Networking with a beginner’s mind
Backdrop: In 20+ years of my marketing business, I didn't need to "do networking" because the right people found me at the right times, and my
intersection of marketing and operations: digital concierge
Key evaluations you need to make before you add any more digital marketing into your life. How many times has someone told you you need a
Got George Washington
And how attention to the present moment yields stories and signs. This rainy grey day, after dropping my son at school, I drove by Job Lot and
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
Large Scale Event Promotion: Showing Up
I've been doing large scale event promotion for over 20 years, and developed a very specific, choreographed approach that is not recorded elsewhere. I
Lies the AI tells me
Interacting with AI feels disturbing to me. Oddly slick and beautiful fake humans with 7 fingers aside, I think it's because there's no way to
Mouse, Mystery, Mouse
Subtitled: Lovers of the Lbrary.1 Today, I worked at the library, where I could set up my laptop and not get tempted to eat lots of pastries,
“That doesn’t happen here”
Feminine Power in the Face of Fighting: A Waitress Story. At 22, I started working as a cocktail waitress and bartender at a jazz club in New
Terms of Endearment – Article
Article = Art + Miracle I've been at a loss how to brand myself as a maker of digital stuffs, so I'm not going to do it.1 And I've also been at
Advertising & Influence – it’s an energy thing
While many of us assume emotions like happiness are the best feelings to evoke in advertising, it is not the case. It's actually energy (positive or
Efficiency: a dangerous game
By design it benefits only a few. Oh my goodness have I loved efficiency. I drank the Koolaid early, and developed my own flavors of
Damn, I’m sorry
... for my part in the debacle that is the Internet, so I'm writing long form as penance. Below is this maker's overview of the web's history 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
Making an oracle by machine
Get a reading of sorts at bottom of this page. Randomness is the name, and divination is the game. ~Playing The Fool1 I just added a
The Constitution of US
In case you hadn't heard, The United States Constitution was removed from The White House Website sometime within the past 24 hours. All that's left
