Jane Ann's World

Jane Ann Wynn

Slightly to the North of Baltimore

I am an artist- I make things for a living-I wake up happy, I take care of cats, I love a lot, & I am a Hunter-Gatherer!

Interests: collage, robots, bunnies, art, hello kitty, death cab for cutie, collecting, photos, coffee shops, digital photography, sushi, atheism, victoriana, halloween, ephemera, found objects, altered art, indian food, ambient, bjork, tori amos, the postal service, assemblage, polaroid manipulations, altered books, patina, art galleries, jewelry design, wilco, bathrooms, photo booths, skeleton keys, cats, portishead, crafts, antiques, collages, art journals, coffee, jewelry making, journaling, india, artists, rilo kiley, dead can dance, beading, mixed media art, regina spektor, beads, metal, adornment, altoids, amélie, annette messager, apparitions, assemblage art, atheists, azure ray, bones, cabinet cards, cyclone, cyclones, daguerreotype, dave mckean, day of the dead, dias de los muertos, dresden dolls, eva hesse, floria sigismondi, fortune cookies, found-object art, found-objects, freaks, frida kahlo, ghost photos, hair art, hair dye, hair extensions, hair jewelry, hand made books, hans bellmer, idolatry, infant of prague, jane, joel peter witkin, john william waterhouse, joseph cornell, juxtapoz, kiki smith, lisa gerard, little red rocket, mark ryden, medical photography, mementos, mourning jewelry, mutter museum, nouvelle vague, octopus, oddities, old photos, organs, perth, polaroid transfers, pre-raphaelites, prop replica, props, rasputina, relics, reliquaries, renee stout, robert rauschenberg, rust, sacred heart, saint dymphna, seven deadly sins, shadow boxes, shellyan orphan, shrines, siamese twins, sondre lerche, tegan and sara, the decemberists, the lucksmiths, the magnetic fields, the rentals, the venture brothers, tintypes, tornado, tornadoes, victorian era, vintage art, vintage paper, vintage photos, voodoo, women artists, Objects & Elements.

In Athens, ever-increasing popular participation in politics led to rule by demagogy. And in today’s America, money is now the great enabler of demagogy. 

As the Nobel-winning economist A. Michael Spence has put it, America has gone from “one propertied man, one vote; to one man, one vote; to one person, one vote; trending to one dollar, one vote.” By any measure, the United States is a constitutional republic in name only. 

Elected representatives have no minds of their own and respond only to the whims of public opinion as they seek re-election; 

special interests manipulate the people into voting for ever-lower taxes and higher government spending, sometimes even supporting self-destructive wars. 

By ERIC X. LI

HOME IN A FIELD ON A HILL

A young man once lived in this cabin  alone. He contracted AIDS an eventually died.  No one has lived in it since.  The Baltimore Sun reported at the time that he loved the house, its beauty and the animals that he cared for.   As death approached said he wished to die in this his home.

This picture by Winslow Homer, "The Gulfstream" shows the fisherman on his little sailboat with the broken mast and a waterspout dancing around him. He does not seen the boat at the horizon and maybe that is a good thing because they will never seen him, he is a speck in a big sea. We humans quite often make bad decisions and can be selfish and negative and worse. But god damn we can be so heroic and wonderful at the same time. The painting is a work of fiction but similar things occur every day. I would hope I could face the "moment" with the same grace as the man in the boat.

What I just noticed about the picture is what appears to be a large amount of red in the water like...BLOOD!!... It looks like about fifty humans fell in and were shred up by the fish... yet there is no evidence showing what could have caused it...did Winslow embellish a bit?

FIRE IN THE BAY...

The PBS series Nature produced a show called “Radioactive Wolves”. The show concerns itself with the wildlife which survived the Chernobyl disaster. The disaster was equivalent to 400 atomic bombs and the vast area is forever off bounds to human habitation and visitation. But it is not off limits to scientists who study the natural recovery of the vast northern area. This production has been the most thrilling, the most interesting and the most satisfying experience I have viewed in my entire life. It is unsafe for humans to ever again live there but nature has reestablished itself (with human help with the wild horse). The photography is amazing as cities are completely returning to nature as are most all animal and plant species that have lived in this part of northern Europe for the past 10,000 years. 


http://video.pbs.org/video/2157025070

ALL WAR FOR ALL TIMES ENDS HERE!
  WE HAVE HEARD THAT BEFORE -- MAKE IT HAPPEN THIS TIME

I hope they all make it back intact and in good mind and spirit. And thank you guys. 99% of wars are wrong-headed and immoral. 

Gustave Caillebotte's "Paris Street; Rainy Day," from 1877.

"We Take Care of Our Own" Photos by Dorothea Lange Video by Bruce Springsteen

This series of Dorothea's photographs of the American people were taken in the 1930s at the time of the Great Depression. Those who can look at such pictures and be untouched by the tragedy are not really human but are zombies walking among us for they have no heart and what souls they might have are hard and turgid.  Springsteen's song "We Take Care of Our Own” provides an ironic twist.    God bless Franklin Roosevelt, God bless Social Security, God bless Lyndon Johnson, God Bless Medicare and Medicaid.