New Painting Finalized

Last month managed to complete an on-going project, a large-scale still life depicting three pomegranates and a page of verse.
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Two Paintings Recently Sold

Earlier in the year two paintings sold— Blue Hour: Accept and Blue Hour:Remember. Each of these exists from a series which helped
re-develop my style, focusing my intentions towards projects.
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1983:2006

Language exists with strange anomalies — words function with multiple meanings, each definition a warped reflection of each other — an example: in English, the word reflection folds back on itself into a mobius strip, the language transformed to physical anatomy,
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A New Project Site

For the last two years I have been gathering sketches like stones on a religious basis—every Sunday after downing a cup of coffee—the day open before me—I take out the sketchbook, a #2H pencil, a sundry of pens, flip to a blank page and proceed to draw, formulate the ideas which beat about my head like moths against a light. read full story
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So it Happens—

—the final portion of a painting completes itself: Motioning Between Sun and Moon.  For the longest time the project remained titled simply Motion, an explanation of the central figure's movement across is personal landscape, balanced between setting sun and crescent moon.   read full story
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Wanderings into the OtherWorld

— in other words, after reading a collection of Welsh folktales, The Mabinogion, strong myth cycles, heavy with dream logic and nightmare realism. The stories flow over the edges with the same qualities of the Greek myths: persistent heroes, distressed maidens, senile kings, and gory battles.

So of course I fall into the pattern, creating a scene of the warrior Antaeus journeying underground to find the ghost of his father and the golden bough. A traditional figure of myth, the hero, pausing in his quest before the house of the dead before confronting obstacles.
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