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Local Artist: Michelle Morgan (Vista, CA)

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Poem: "A Perfect Day"

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A $10 roll of quarters, cheap tall cans, and my love. Complex Laundry by the Complex Pool. Lines on my back from plastic lawn chairs, freckles on my shoulders-smell of sunscreen. A pink string bikini with little red strawberries. Your …

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Poem: "The Space Cadet from Indiana"

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"The Space Cadet from Indiana" By Michelle Morgan She stands in a muddy puddle of trampled dirty daisies in the springtime holding her kite of tin foil and copper wire in the middle of the night. It was raining red …

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"Sick Little Crayons"

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A work made with melted crayons! :-) http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28046/

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"Lets Roll Down the Windows and Open Our Mouths"

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A oil/acrylic work inspired by a Modest Mouse lyric from the song "So Much Beauty in Dirt" from the album "Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks". http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28043/

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"Them Nasty Little Bugs"

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Inspired by the book "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" written by Ken Kensey. One of my ALL-time Favorites. :-) http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28042/

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"Feelings In His Cheeks"

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This oil painting was painted for my younger brother Dean Morgan who recently passed. When he was a small child and would get upset my mother would say to him, "Aww, honey did you get your feelings hurt?" and touch …

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"Does Anybody Know a Way That a Body Could Get Away"

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Another work inspired by a Modest Mouse lyric in the song, "Tiny City Made of Ashes" from the album "The Moon& Antarctica". http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28040/

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"Where the Heart Is"

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An oil painting inspired by my family painted for my mother. Every individual in my family is represented by a color in this painting. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28037/

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"Lamp Snake"

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This work was inspired by a dream I had about a screaming lamp snake. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28031/

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Chewed-up Gum Art: "Goofy"

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This is a small work made entirely out of Chewed-up Gum!! I had my friends help me chew up some some gum until all the sugars where out of it and used it as a colorful, pliable medium! Soooooore Jaws. …

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"He Told Her She Was Beautiful and She Smiled Because She Loved Him"

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A work from 2010. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28029/

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"Eat My Own Blood Get Filled Up on Me"

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Another work inspired by a Modest Mouse lyric from the song "Night on the Sun" EP released in 1999 then re-released on the album "Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks". I apologize for the poor photo quality. :-P http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28028/

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"Babydoll Sickness"

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An idea of "fishing with the ends of your hair." http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28027/

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"Bird Dog"

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This work was inspired by a dream I had about a dog with a feathery, owl head and dog body. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28026/

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"Window Obsession"

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I've had a small obsession with the shapes of windows and doors. I apologize for the poor photo quality of this work. :-P http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28025/

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"Just Watch TV I Guess That's a Solution"

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Another work inspired by a Modest Mouse lyric in the song "A Different City" from the album "The Moon & Antarctica". http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28023/

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"Cricket Soup"

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I grew up in a small town in Indiana. I can remember the sound of the crickets in the summertime. Very big bugs with hard bodies. Crunchy. Like a jelly filled hard candy. ;-) http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/15/28022/

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"Adam. Mr. Tree Head." 2 of 2

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This is the second of a pair of works. It goes along with "Eve. The Stars are Projectors." The tree is meant to represent the growth of knowledge and the sort of uncomfortable aching of "the knowing" and how it …

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"Eve. Stars are Projectors." 1 of 2

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I am VERY inspired by the music of Modest Mouse. This work was inspired by a Modest Mouse song entitled: "Stars are Projectors" from the album "The Moon & Antarctica". If you get a chance, listen to that song! It …

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