A digital collage using five images of the artist Melisande Charles from the 42 years of our friendship. - top to bottom: portrait (198) - w/ camera from a road trip (1977) - in her Studio (?) - At the state fair (2010) - at home (2016)

MNelisande

Reflection of the sky in the creek snow covers  the trees and ground.  

Reflection

Rustic light brown wooden framed lush summer view over the Mississippi River front at Munsinger Gardens. Foreground's white and orange flowers frame the trees, inviting the viewer into opposite shore's reflected foliage in the river's lighten embrace.

Mystical Munsinger, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Many leaves, roughly oval in shape, overlapping harmoniously

many leaves

A black-and-white photograph of a nude woman's upper body, her hands playing in her hair. The image is dark and backlit from behind, making her hair appear to glow and her hands appear in silhouette. On the left side of the image are some hazy spots of light and lines from another body.

Bodycloud 8 (Excerpt)

A portrait of my husband - A digital portrait loaded onto a computer - Digital portrait manipulated via PhotoShop - The man who helped me save my life.

My Husband - Who Saved My Life

A photo of a Heron on a branch with his reflection.

Poe’s Heron 

 George Floyd memorial site, large painting of George with bundles of flowers and comments left by 
those who have viewed the memorial.

George Floyd Memorial

An image of a small orange-colored butterfly perched and posing on an purple flower. enjoying herself on a sunny fall afternoon. 

Butterfly 

Monarch butterfly in flight over flowers which are swaying in the wind.

Floating Butterfly

A photo of rust that looks like a blue eye staring at the viewer with swirls of maroon, white, green, yellow, brown, and orange.

Eye of Oxidation

Abstract photograph of a multicolored sphere or globe divided in to upper and lower sections, with the upper section containing a mostly grey abstract, organic shape that may be a huge microbe body and the lower portion containing a taupe meshed shape. Hidden in the image is a bound face.

Untitled Sphere with Face

A color photograph of a man standing and a woman sitting around large orange boulders with a partly cloudy, deep-blue sky in the background. The photo is taken from a low vantage point with both subjects partially behind the boulders. Both subjects are wearing masks and social distancing.

Truly Kind

A photo of an old and isolated corner bar/gas station pump no longer operating in Northern North Dakota off of highway 85.

Highway 85

A digital print of a Hummingbird hovering, wings in a blur, while it drinks in the nectar from a rain covered purple Sylvia flower. 

Artist of flight

View of St. Paul's High Bridge from Mississippi River

High Bridge

A close-up photograph of a child's eye and brow, wet with water as she emerged from the swimming pool.

Molly's Eye

A photograph of fallen red "fruit" and leaves from a tree into water on the concrete. 

Aspiring Cherries

Street lights

As the sun sets, the shadow of a sunflower is cast upon an open hand. The picture was made in our front yard. It glows.

Light Show

Capture of a Hummingbird while he visiting beautiful purple flowers.

Hummingbird #1

In a photo of a dark iridescent green and bright white dream-like underwater scene, seaweed from the bottom of the photo extends up to meet a turtle, in silhouette, swimming in water. Bubbles on the surface are highlighted by a bright light outside the water.

Dream Turtle

2 wicker chair orange and magenta with the Magenta one on the bottom.  (title is on the bottom right.  Verticle image.

Alley Wicker

A photograph of four vivid autumn pink, yellow, green, and red leaves lying among desolate grey leaves.

Leaves of Change

A view through a window that's surrounded by mirrors overlooking the Mississippi the Mill District.

One Window/Three Bridges

This image is part of a series, collected from a series of potluck dinners hosted throughout the state of Minnesota; each participant brings a family or ancestral dish to share as community issues, social traditions, and regional dynamics are discussed, exploring the authentic, diverse, and evolving Minnesota culture.

Homemade Sauerkraut & Bologna, Richard Wehseler (From The Dish Project, New London)

A Ohoto of a dark haired model in red dress with white umbrella posed in a woods with a green 1959 mrcedes benz Sedan in a misty woods

9-08-2020 Flack ames

Throughout the early days of the pandemic solo bike rides revealed a world alive and relating in the silence

Covid-tosed by grain elivators

A macro (closeup) color photograph of a black ant atop a rich-red flower bud covered in water droplets on an out-of-focus green leafy background.

King of the Bud

An ice cream cone with multicolored sprinkles wrapped with a white paper napkin held by a child in a city on a sunny day. The ice cream cone is held intentionally to hide the child's face.

The Son of Me

This black and white photo was taken within the Seattle Public Library on the top floor. It is very geometric and industrial. To the right of the image is a window with a reflection of the far left building. The top of three buildings are in the photo and blend together. A cloud is to the far left outlying the building.

MNelisande, 2020

Loren Niemi