Author: RJ Walters

I am an Independent thinking, highly functional person who is deaf and has some unique views and challenges in life. Like all of us, I am a person who is composed of all my life experiences and that is what I write about here.

MME8 – The Brew House

My Mind's Eye
CLA8

As you can see, I am still experimenting with various techniques and colors to find my personal version of artsy. This one might be too artsy, but it was just how I felt when I made it. Maybe my unpredictability is my style? It does kinda fit my overall persona,

The source of this image was taken in 2007 at the Budweiser Headquarters in St. Louis Missouri, USA

DD37 – Subtle

Digital Doodles
DD37

When I am working on finishing up my artsy projects, I am always thinking about what its title should be. I made the work above a couple of weeks ago, and for the life of me, I don’t remember why I gave it the title I did.

Maybe I was just on edge, thinking about something else. I do that somewhat frequently now. Maybe doing this art work calmed me down. Whatever, I give you my latest work entitled:

Subtle

That’s not too subtle, is it?

On a side note, I have decided to call my artsy work that comes to me from many different places, MyMindsEye. It is more complicated than doodles and often starts out from somewhere in the back of my mind instead of from a photo. That name evokes a quirky Shakespearean feeling. I like that.

DD15 – In The Dark

Digital Doodles
D15

This is one of the times that my artsy creations are a merger between Doodles and Outsider Art. Figuratively speaking, I am often in the dark when it comes to things social. All those rules for when it is my turn to talk, what I talk about, are totally lost on me. But, to tell you the truth, this is one of the things I really don’t care about anymore.

MME45 – The Switchboard

My Mind's Eye

In the early 1960s I lived in a small rural town that actually had one of these switchboards. I remember sitting in the operator’s office to eat during a high school lunch break. For the most part, she just sat there waiting for someone to ring her up. I guess she got kinda lonely, so she welcomed our company.

The switchboard, for all practical purposes, resided in her front room. But, within a year or so she was out of a job, as next door they built a 40 × 40 ft windowless building and filled it with very noisy switching equipment. She was thrown out of a job due to automation. I suspect she felt much like people today who are losing their jobs to AI, they dream of the good-old days when your telephone was tied to a wall.

MME23 – Icy Spring Storm

My Mind's Eye

I never get tired of looking at all my lamp post shots from the homestead. This one was taken in 2011 in an early spring ice storm. I have been in my RetCom for almost 4 years now and really miss the beauty of the place. My outdoor view now is a three-story wall of the assisted living units thirty feet away. I don’t know what the architect thought he was doing putting the two wings so close together when there is so much beauty outside this area.

Mosaic of Life #152 – Dali Museum

Mosaic Of Life

I visited the Salvador Dali museum in St. Petersburg in 2022. It was the last time I saw my brother. I was just starting my 4,000-mile final visit to the south and southwest U.S. One of my goals for the trip was to try to understand abstract art. Dali was one of the founding fathers of that genre.

I appreciated the atmosphere but was most enamored of the stairwells, as shown above. They just spoke to me.

DD19 – A New Artsy Area.

Digital Doodles
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In 2022, I traveled almost 6,000 miles trying to more fully discover my artsy side. I visited more than 20 museums in the Southwestern and Northeastern parts of the U.S. One of the results of those trips was my 2024 “Mosaic of Life” project. Another is my currently active 2025 “Clothesline Art”. They both reside in MyArtsySide menu shown above each post.

I have been struggling to include abstract art in my repertoire. For the last six months, I have been studying several books related to the many forms of abstract art, but it seems that the more I read the murkier things become. Maybe I just need to throw away the books and trust my gut feelings!

Finally, getting to the point of this post, Doodles & Such is a new category that is now located in MyArtsySide menu along “Mosaic of Life” and “Clothesline Art”. Part of the “Such” includes abstracts. Don’t ask me which are doodles and which are abstracts, as to me the two are often indistinguishable.

Doodling is where my path to artsy originally started in 2023. But this 2025 version in Doodles & Such is more sophisticated than those early attempts. You might say some of it is almost abstract in nature. 😎

Mosaic of Life #139 – Beulah and A Friend

Mosaic Of Life

Now that I have decided to continue my “Mosaic of Life” posts, I need to fill in some blanks. The Basset Hound on the leach is Beulah. She had a fenced in yard that she roamed unleashed, but she did also love to explore other territories. She was my last pet, and my second favorite. (Sam, who was a dachshund, was my first personal pet was my first.)

When Beulah and I were having our “outside the yard” adventure, Rocky would frequently show up. Rocky was a Pitbull and one of the sweetest of all Beulah’s friends. He lived about three doors down, which was a quarter of a mile down the road. I don’t know how he knew we were doing our thing, but he frequently showed up to say hi.

Mosaic of Life #151 Sassy Sonic…

Mosaic Of Life

I still vividly remember the story behind this mosaic. As shown above, it was taken in July of 2012. We were leaving our third and last trip to Mesa Verde and decided to tour more of Utah. About a month before this trip I got this new 2012 firely orange Chevy Sonic. I had to go to a dealer about 80 miles from home to get it as no local dealers had one.

When I bought it I realized that it was probably the last vehicle I would purchase, and indeed I still have it thirteen years later. When we were driving down the road there were red buttes, or whatever you call them, and part of my brain lit up and said “you gotta get a picture of them as a backdrop for my Sassy Sonic. I think they compliment each other very well. 😁

MME30 – Losing My Marbles

My Mind's Eye

One of the most unique museums I have been to is the Prairie Museum in Colby, Kansas. It is mostly made up of one local family’s contributions. Yes, this was just a pile of marbles, but it, like many other exhibits in the museum, said a lot to me. I’m sure other photos from this trip will find themselves in this “Clothesline Art” category

Mosaic of Life #153 – It Shoulda Been The First Mosaic

Mosaic Of Life

Since I have decided that my “Mosaic of Life” is more than a one-year project, it’s time to fill in some missing pieces. Let’s start with the first one.

I know this is post #153 in my Mosaic directory, but it is the first picture I have of my existence on this earth. The other person in the picture is my big brother, Ronnie. For the first nine years of my life, I constantly looked up to him for the lessons he could teach me. Then, he was abruptly taken from me when my mother took him and abandoned the rest of us.

Ronnie was later named Jim from an adoption by mom’s 3rd husband. My dear brother passed away in 2022, two months after my last visit to him. Since he lived 1500 miles away, that visit was only the third one I had had with him over the years. I always wonder what my life would have been like if he had been around more to help me with my ever-present adversities.

Artsy Dry Spell

My Mind's Eye

CLA – 27

I have been away from RJsCorner for much of the last 4 weeks with some health issues. Nothing life-threatening but very annoying. I am pretty much recovered but still not back to 100%.

I really missed my artsy time and your visits here. Looking at the bright side, episodes like these make me appreciate the time I have left on this earth. 🙂

The picture from which this image was made is from my July 2022 visit to my brother. He died two months after my visit. I am so glad I had that time with him.