This page shares my current mental expeditions, in terms of style, issues, projects, media, haikus, or Random Poetry.
The Story in Her Eyes
12" x 18", watercolor on 140 lb. acid-free paper, $800.
Kissing the Cobra
12" x 18", watercolor on 140 lb. acid-free paper, $800.
Oblivious 14 x 17, watercolor on 100 lb. acid-free paper, $800.
Turbanite
4" x 6", watercolor on 140 lb. acid-free paper
Awkwardly Visible
12 x 18, watercolor on 140 lb. acid-free paper, $800.
Stardust Moon
9 x 12, acrylic on canvas, $1200.
a young girl looks at distant peaks
of dangling adventures.
she gleans creative strength
flashing skin in a different trajectory.
she forbids the older man
and the routine designed to preserve.
she seeks a restorative paradise
inducing deep sleep
by sea green pools.
inhaling the scent of water lilies
a moon bath floods the valley
under thick stars.
she simply anticipates
a garden lunch.
little white house...
abandoned
how alone you look
after the shelter
you have provided.
you must still hear
the relatives' voices
the click of checkers
the pop of Schlitz cans
45s dropping
the needle scratching out
Kay Starr's voice.
women crowded
into the tiny kitchen
cooking for a horde
that will swallow
without tasting or praising.
they will go home
with memories unrealized,
smelling of "off"
and cigarettes.
leaving metal lawnchairs
just outside the kitchen door
where MaMa peeled potatoes
dads and uncles
exhausted from the week
in the days without seatbelts
drive too fast
to get home and rest.
still they are content
to have had the family together
under that little roof.
have you all forgotten
the walls that held you?
caterpillar weaves
her butterfly coat of change
she does not fear it
i've borrowed the moon
to put it in my paintings
moment of magic
birdbath faeries flirt
with water's blue reflection
golden leaves shimmer
The following pieces are from my series "Fragmented Women", which began from my piece in the "A Day in Pompeii" exhibit, at the Cincinnati Museum Center. http://www.cincymuseum.org/pompeii/artshow I have spent my life observing the unappreciated women of the world beginning with my Grandmothers, and my Mother...their delicious meals swallowed and not tasted, the gardens tended in the hot sun, the clean clothes that "miraculously" appeared in closets. I have watched in wonder and marveled at the strength of these women. Like the marble mosaics of the ancient world they somehow endured life and never complained.
Marie's Secret Dream
16 x 20, acrylic on canvas, $1800.
Apple Pie
16 x 20, acrylic on canvas, $1800.
Final Words
8x10, acrylic/mixed media on canvas, $1000.
This drawing plays into the concept of Fragmented Women, in the sense that these pillars of strength had so many unspoken desires. They quietly did their chores, contributed to the lives around them, and stoically subjugated their personal dreams of being a professional singer, pilot, teacher.
The Clouds
12 x 18, graphite on paper, $600.
BodhiMind
11 x 14, acrylic on canvas, $1400.
Still Blue
16 x 20, oil on canvas, $1800.
3 small watercolors created for the Nippon-Japan TV documentary project
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