telling images - debbi swanson patrick

THE ART OF LIFE

Imagine a unique work of art created just for you or someone you love. Artifacts and ephemera are mixed with botanical and natural elements to create a mesmerizing visual story. When modern technology meets the eye of an an artist, the result is super high-def magic. Award-winning artist Debbi Swanson Patrick turns mementos into masterpieces… award-winning Telling Images.

"I use a flatbed scanner to create unique still lifes and stories about people and places. With my background in journalism, love of history and mystery as well as the spiritual side of life, I like to dig and find unusual ways to express a story. I use organic and inorganic items, mementos, and all kinds of fascinating finds. The result is often unexpected; the look often like that of an old master's painting, yet made with modern technology."

Please contact me to create a custom image for you, your organization, or family and friends.

telling images

Digital Still Lifes and Visual Biographies. Turn mementos into masterpieces. Contact me today.

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Shell We Dance
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Butterfly Fairies
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Buddha Love
A sitting Buddha surrounded by luscious fruit and angels.
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Golden Ring Totem
A totem of persimmon tops, fishing flies, and the golden circle of a wedding ring. This is a memorial for my late husband. He loved persimmons and fly fishing, and the heart shaped totem reflects our spiritual and shaman studies.
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Heart of Dragonfly
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Optimism
Here is a crow’s skull, real and artificial flowers, rhinestones, a Swedish horse, dragonfly, butterfly, beetles, and resulting “Optimism.”
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Bug's Life
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Cactus Bubbles
Part of my ongoing cactus series, acorns rim a center filled with an angel pin covered with a Mumm’s champagne top and pearl bubbles.
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Time Flies
Here’s a humorous way to mark the passing of time between friends or loved ones. An antique pocket watch and a dastardly, but decidedly dead, fly.
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Rising feminine
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Freesia at Play
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Paradise
A beaded hummingbird and lizard from Jamaica play hide and seek with a bird of paradise.
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Fantasy in Pink and Blue
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Passionate Purple
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Life's Remains
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Shellayers
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Shellacious
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Soul Breath
A soul's breath was blown through this agate, laid to rest with flowers on scallop shell.
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Spiral
A nautilus shell with another textured friend the mushroom, oyster shells, flowers and a goddess of goodness.
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The Wedding
Husband and wife c. 1923, represent a life of love with her silk glove, a slip from her dress, wedding rings of 65 years, Swedish crystal lovebirds, pearls, their image, and flowers.
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A leather baby shoe, antique housewares, medicine bottles, long lost love letters and blooms of promise inhabit Pinney House.
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Mum's the Rose
Like a comet with its trail, a white mum commands a following of roses and pearls.
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The Gift
Given with love, then broken in haste, this figurine is together again in love as he presents her with another persimmon for her basket.
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Pink Lily Fairies
These fairies dance the light fantastic among lilies and blooms.
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Fairy Dancers
These fairies dance the light fantastic among lilies and blooms.
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Succulent Feast
A partner to Cabbage Roses, the sun shines over tantalizing snippets of succulents, Murano glass, a snapping beetle, gemstone lizard and a moonstone/tree.
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Cabbage Roses
White roses, tantalizing snippets of succulents, the happiest of hummingbirds, murano glass, a snapping beetle and a moonstone/tree. Partner to Succulent Feast.
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Utensil Dance
Your utensils may not dance around your kitchen, but these Bakelite and metal implements do with spices and flower petals to pass the time between meals.
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Medicine Wheel
Assemblage of ceremonial baskets, woven grass, and magnolia pods.
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Pitcher of Life
Owl faced nuts, exploding acorns, fish swimming to nowhere, and a bloody rad head on cheese and cracker blended with succulents and berries in a pitcher shape.
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Birds and Fish
A carved cuckoo clock bird reigns over a party of fish, tea, champagne, a Hawaiian shaman rattle, with a rat head on a cracker for "fun."
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Bloom in Pink
Stellar epiphyllum flowers, an inspirational message, with a turquoise bird hiding in the petals and glittery leaves.
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Fairy Heart
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Butterfly Bloom
In this tree of green, butterflies alight with dragonfly, parrot, and a bit of murano glass.
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Time for Passion
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Romanesco
Several romanesco cauliflowers show off their natual fractal structure, with their friends the string of pearls.
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Microcosm
A cutway of romanesco cauliflower mimicks life's beginnings in water with shells, a hummingbird looking on and a cactus string of pearls.
North Star
A nod to Christmas and our need for a guiding light, this features a gorgeous hot pink epiphyllum flower with rhinestone pin and peacock feathers.
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TI-Radiant eye
Stunning epiphyllum blossoms, covered in fresh rain, play with mysterious crimson friends, all being watched by the radiant eye.
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Regal Beauty
Calla lilies in shades of reddish purple host a bejeweled butterfly in their midst.
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Butterfly Tree
This homage to a critter filled garden features a large "papillon," smaller papillons, a 5 france coin from 1847, a cat, dragonfly, beetle, parrot, fairies, bee, flowers, and a jeweled pin.
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