Digital Art by Anne Anthony
Artist’s Statement:
Michelangelo once stated that “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” For me, I was the artist stuck in marble unable to get free. I lived with a disconnect between what my mind’s eye perceived and what my hands were capable of creating. Oh, those hands of mine failed me as a child, a young girl who wanted more than anything to put down on paper or canvas the images she imagined. Finally, as an adult, I discovered a path to creating those images through technology. When I write ‘technology’ I don’t mean artificial intelligence but software that allows me to combine my photographs and my artwork and turn them into digital collages. I typically start with a single image, a photograph or a photograph of one of my paintings and apply layers of other images over or under it using the software and play with filters to alter its lighting or color or texture. The choices made, the combinations used, and the thump in my heart when I recognize it’s complete is the ‘art’ of my process. Oh, how I love that thump.
Darkest Before Dawn
Old Blue Eye
Edge of Time
Sad Baby Bird
My Wife, What Wife?
Photo of Anne Anthony
BIO: Anne Anthony is a digital collage artist living in North Carolina. She’s been the featured artist in Neither Fish Nor Foul and Mad Swirl. Her work has also been published by Ghost Parachute, Free Flash Fiction, Spank the Carp, Broken Heart Literary, 3 Elements Literary Review, Remington Review and Mom Egg Review. Her photographs Following the Rules, Deer Shadow, and Traveling Life's Highway placed in the 2024, 2023, and 2022 Carolina Women’s Photography contest. Her photograph, Lonesome, was nominated for 2025 Best of Net by phoebe lit journal. Follow her on IG/FB @anchalastudio or on Bluesky @anchalastudio.bsky.com. See more of her artwork each month in Does It Have Pockets where, as the art director, she creates custom art for each publication.