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An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.   Eugene Delacoix

An actual living stuffed animal...err...DOG!  Talk about a pocket pet.

Now here's a real one~

The odd little guy, Pepperoni 

and the sign I bought in VT for his dinner spot.

9 Ways to Boost Your Artistic Creativity

2. Put up an art ideas bulletin board
I have a board like this in my studio for art ideas, as well as one in my office for business thoughts.Post anything that come to you, pictures, quotations, ads—whatever flies through your mind or catches your eye. You never know what will come from these artifacts.

Livia Marin » Broken Things,  silkscreen on ceramic    'By appropriating mass-market objects I seek to offer through the work a reflection on how we particularize our relation to them. I reflect on how, in a secular and materialist society, identities are increasingly designated through the material tokens derived from consumerism. Central to the intervention deployed in my work is the trope of estrangement that works to reverse an excess of familiarity engendered in the life of the everyday and the dictates of the marketplace. The mode of address my work takes to the everyday is through the material objects which populate it and which I understand as embodied signifiers of the culture to which they belong. I see my work as involved in the kind of politics that are transacted in everyday life: buying and selling, keeping and discarding, using and storing, giving and receiving, etc.'

Crime reporter-turned-artist Abigail Goldman creates miniature crime scene displays that are playfully titled Die-o-ramas. The oddly twisted dioramas, approximately four inches in height, feature miniature characters encased in a gruesome scene of murder that involves anything from one figure shooting another to a vicious animal attack. There's even the unusual sight of one dismembered figure, split in two, from being run over by a lawnmower.Goldman’s immaculate craftsmanship — painting and distressing tiny automobiles and buildings, arranging dirt (baked to remove parasites) and building detailed foliage — results in a smartly illustrated explorations of the culture of violence, one that taps into what she refers to as “that dynamic between what’s funny and what’s ghastly.