Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Hello, everyone. With my head full of hearts, I welcome you to Whatnot Wednesday. There are enough different hearts that this qualifies as a Whatnot post: Abstract hearts for the challenge, steampunk hearts, vintage hearts…
On Mondays, Dan Antion is the moderator of “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” (CFFC). The topic for this week was “Detailed or Abstract — or both.” The word abstract sent my weirdly-wired mind tumbling through its twisting pathways. It resulted in the multi-layered mishmash, the flummoxed freakout, the hard to follow hurtle that I call Whatnot Wednesdays.
When I hear “abstract” I usually think of art, but in those twisting recesses of my brain, I remembered it’s also a sort of philosophical concept. It includes ideas, qualities, or states that exist intellectually but can’t exactly be experienced through the five senses… yet they are fundamental to human thought, and include things like emotions, morality, time… and love, and romance. That’s the best I can do to explain how my abstract thoughts led me to make a collage.
And that’s my “photo” part of this “Whatnot” for the challenge part. Or at least I’m calling it a collage — maybe that’s abstract too. Anyhow it’s a “52-Pickup” type collection of photographs of vintage Valentine magazine covers.
With all the hearts in my head, and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I kept thinking of all the falling hearts in the book trailer I made for “Fiona Finch and the Pink Valentine: a Steampunk Novelette”… Then, naturally Fiona showed up, insisting on being part of this post. Fiona has a Valentine tip — an ebook as a Valentine has no calories, it won’t make your sweetheart sneeze, and it’s less expensive than a greeting card…
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