Fi Webster's photos with the keyword: Poe

What a great swap idea (credit Mandy F.): I've done journal pages on the backs of postcards before, but never a journal page as the art for the postcard front . It felt very odd to write the above--my real journal entry for the 10th of October--in such a "public" setting, but liberating as well. I've been puzzling over how to bring my writing into my art...this seems like a beginning...

This was for a swap-bot challenge to introduce yourself, through images, to someone else. I put my 5-yr-old self, framed by my favorite color, purple in the middle. Then I assembled 8 of my favorite things--which, going clockwise, are horror literature (Edgar Allan Poe stamp on background of the famous opening para of "The Fall of the House of Usher"); horror film (the classic, surprisingly non-gory, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"); writing (favorite fountain pen, a red-&-white Bexley lying on a letter I wrote); Patti Smith (rock-musician/poet/artist extraordinaire); sharks (a beautiful blacktip reefer); collage art (scissors); the warrior goddess Durga (from Hindu pantheon); and appreciating fine art (detail of painting by Gordon Onslow Ford).