Laura J. Tafe

One must keep gluing the pieces back together.

If you have any suggestions for Tallinn I’d love to hear them.

Have you been to Estonia? I’m going to Tallinn in June for a work trip and hope to get a little time in the city.

Paper collage, black white yellow and pink

“Notorious”

#ljtanalogcollage

Happy Valentine’s Day!

#ljtcollage

Thank you so much for listening! ❤️

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Camus

They’re out already!?

The grief is too huge for preparation.

I’m so sorry for the loss of your sweet Willow. 💙

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Artwork with standing wolf and flying bird under a full moon

The first full moon of 2026 is known as the #WolfMoon when the wolves howl with hunger.

Kiki Smith, Cathedral, 2012,
 jacquard tapestry #WomensArt

Happy New Year! 💙

Wishing you boldness and courage in the New Year!

When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f...
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Collage of paper fabrics.

Wrapping up 2025 with what’s become a little series I’ve been working on these last few months. I’m calling them “bodies in motion” as they are comprised of figures and fabrics which seem to have movement of their own.

There are 18 now. Here’s the first 12.
#ljtanalogcollage #collage

Print looking down the body of a person covered in a gold covered blanket with feet protruding and a black cat laying on the top of the person

'Snuggles' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt #Sunday #Winter

One of my favorite words.

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An embroidery of the diagram of a cell on blue linen. the details are in whites, blues, turquoise, burgundy, green, and deep orange. The labels are poetic text instead of scientific terms. From bottom right around to bottom left it reads: Pair of pleases. Chance it some. Chromatic & new to us (carries us some of the way) New to us. Chromatic nets. Please remember. Vacant. Reticent about apparent goals. The centre. Where sometimes we met. Two of us. Sector illustrating the firm approach to pleasure. Caring pleases. New to us. Remember. True newness (pleasure). Sector illustrating sides to where time ran and had pleasure. 

Day 18 #ArtAdventCalendar • Here is my #SciArt #embroidery cell map (2020), which plays with the idea of the cell as a landscape and labels as poetic text.

I wrote about this piece in detail on my blog: liapas.com/2020/09/07/n...

Snowy field and trees

Good morning

Collage with tree branches, blue, orange stripes and black lettering

#collage by me

Green split peas on a person’s palm.

There’s nothing quite like the sensation of running your fingers through dried legumes. I find it soothing.

And, I love this one.

I do have this collection of what I think is some of his early work.

collage on old postcard with quote made popular by Woody Guthrie

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Mark Strand

Gallery space with mirrors reflecting infinity of balls of multicoloured light against blackness

'Brilliance of the souls', 2014, from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms series #WomensArt

Oh, I love that.

Abstract watercolour rendering of cladonia lichen.

Kids were playing around with watercolour yesterday - so I had a go. #lichen and art.