Garden of the Blue Dragon, oil on treated Arches, mounted to cradled hardboard; 36” x 24”. 2018.
This image marks a turning point in my work where I’m beginning to fold my fantasy ideas into “real” botanical work. And what seemed to be a natural counterpart to the bump-out —which I’d been using for decades— is the “carve out”.
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Gevurah, 22” x 30 graphite on Arches paper. 2011.
Occasionally, an idea for a piece comes out of left field and I just have to deal with it. This was one of those. I was researching the Kabbalah because I find ancient esoteric belief systems to be fascinating and I became quite interested with this complex system which breaks the Judaic godhead into….
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Joy Ride, 28” x 28”, oil on canvas, 2011.
What happens when you imagine the witch, Baba Yaga, as a normal elderly person behaving in predictable ways? So what does she do with her down time between luring children to her hut and fattening them up to eat? I imagined that she might tear around the forest on her chicken-legged hut, house dress flapping, just for the fun of it.
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Ephemerata, 28” x 28”, July 2013
There were a few courses I took in ecological studies while I was an undergrad where learned about the fascinating “ephemerata” of streams. Lab/ field trips were great fun: wade into a stream, put out a net and kick over a few rocks. Try not to get knocked over by the current. Don’t touch any of the hairy vines on the trees.
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The Rusalka, 18” x 24”, oil on hardboard, 2012.
Even though I was given the go-ahead for the “Rusalka” cover, I completed an alternative cover too because I was certain that if the publisher saw this idea completed, he’d go bananas for it instead.
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