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Presenting Sculpture for Publication Competitions

Kristine Poole

Colin and I have had the wonderful opportunity to be on the jury for numerous art contests over the years, including Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Infected By Art and The Walter S. Baird Prize, along with other local and regional competitions. To be sure, we've looked at a lot of entries in all kinds of subject matters and mediums. To start with, here are some things to…

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“Transformation” by Mary Ancilla Martinez

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Aortas in a Chair – Aortas They Don’t Care

John Jude Palencar

September 22, 2025 - For artists, concepts present themselves in unexpected ways. Why or how the artist responds to them is sometimes just as much of a mystery to the artist as it is to the artist’s audience. Freudian reasons aside, there are many avenues for inspiration & pathways to creative new lands. My wife had this small decorative chair she no longer wanted. It’s one of those objects that you say to yourself, “why would someone make this?”. That’s probably the reason why she wanted to throw it out. It’s a small wooden chair with a hole in the seat for a miniature pot in which to place a plastic flower or dried botanticals. It fits on a bookshelf. Thoughtlessly I placed some dead stalks from our landscaping plantings in the seat of this diminutive chair…. that triggered…

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