Rebecca Tillett 7/20/25 Rebecca Tillett 7/20/25

Eve Before the Cosmos

Still the unrepentant tongue. They claim creation was loud, but don’t mention the sweet silence of her becoming. Her inky shadow unraveling and peaking and staining galaxies with the light and dark of being long before God claimed them.

Rebecca Tillett 7/6/25 Rebecca Tillett 7/6/25

Tricolor Carpenter Bee

Our second in this series of 2D photo collage on metallic paper presented in a shadow box frame with a real insect. This one is a tricolor carpenter bee!

Rebecca Tillett 6/28/25 Rebecca Tillett 6/28/25

Yellow-Vented Hornet

“I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.” —Steve Southerland

Rebecca Tillett 5/25/25 Rebecca Tillett 5/25/25

High Priestess

Hush. The ache before the answer. Hush. Do you feel it? Your ears are like satellites searching for submarines. Single engine planes circling Everest. Challenger Deep is calling. Go. Until you find the keeper of veils and the hollowed truth. Howling the gospel of molecules and wonder at the conquered moon.A moroi is a type of vampire or ghost in Romanian folklore—the origins of the word are unknown but may have come from the old Slavonic word, mora, meaning nightmare.

Rebecca Tillett 2/23/25 Rebecca Tillett 2/23/25

Sublime Déshabillé

And in her sublime déshabillé, the soft pillow of her body bathed in light while her head swam in the dunce cap’s darkness ravaged by dancing merciless fire and choking smoke.

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Mora

A moroi is a type of vampire or ghost in Romanian folklore—the origins of the word are unknown but may have come from the old Slavonic word, mora, meaning nightmare.

Rebecca Tillett 12/12/24 Rebecca Tillett 12/12/24

Body of a Flower: Luna Moth

“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity, and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”

Rebecca Tillett 12/3/24 Rebecca Tillett 12/3/24

La Loïe

Loïe Fuller (born Marie Louise Fuller; 1862-1928), the woman starring in this piece, was actually a pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques.

Rebecca Tillett 11/3/24 Rebecca Tillett 11/3/24

Dreams of Battle and Death

PTSD officially became a mental health diagnosis in 1980. The history of what is now known as PTSD often references combat history since much of the initial research on the condition was done with vets returning home from war.

Rebecca Tillett 10/28/24 Rebecca Tillett 10/28/24

Fledgling Folly

My grandmother dedicated the last decades of her life to saving the lives of so many birds that she was known as The Bird Lady to all in my hometown, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Rebecca Tillett 9/14/24 Rebecca Tillett 9/14/24

Behold the Body of the Moon

And I’ll lick my wounds with the glow of the full moon and remind you that if your ship doesn’t come in, you’ll have to row out to meet it.

Rebecca Tillett 8/27/24 Rebecca Tillett 8/27/24

Body of a Flower: Spiderwasp

I’m here to gulp the sunsets down with my starving eyes, to dance carelessly in the falling rain, to saturate my lungs with the sweet golden air, to feel the wet grass under my running feet. I’m here to condole with the spurned insects and press my lips into your lips and give some animals needing one a home.

Rebecca Tillett 8/20/24 Rebecca Tillett 8/20/24

Retribution

How often do you think about the ones who have hurt you? It’s something we have in common, you and me. A big something. We are the hurt and the hurting. The hurt and the hurters.