More will eventually be added but as a visual artist writing about paintings is somewhat akin to dancing in snowshoes, it can be done but something get lost in the translation.
PAINTINGS
MIXED MEDIA
DIGITAL & DRAWINGS
AAMAN
ALLEGORY
A NUTHER WORLD
BALINESE DANCER
DANCE OF THE ANCIENTS
BIG HEAD
BYE BYE
COLLAPSE
CREATION ON AN ANGEL
CRUCIFIXUS
DREAMS OF GAIA
DREAMTIME
DRYAD
EVENTIDE
FALCON
FANTASY
My subtitle for this is "And the Fox Jumped over the Buddha." “Fantasy” is a combination of images from vacations, trips and just lying around -- memories of relaxed times filled with flights of fancy.
FERTILE GROUND
The main focus of this piece is imagination and how it is the most fertile of grounds. A good imagination is the stepping stone for greatness. It is the greatest gift we have that could possibly inspire in others. Without it nothing new would ever be created.
FIREBIRD
FIRST CONTACT
ROSE
ON THE FRINGES
FUTURE ARCHEOLOGY
GOOD INTENTIONS
GUITAR HEAD
HOLIDAY
KING OF SHADOWS
Insiped by Shakespeare’s “Midsummers Night Dream”
LEDA AND THE SWAN
MADONNA OF THE MACHINE
MAKING ANGELS
MAN IN THE MOON
MARIANNE
MASQUERADE
ME LLAMA
NIGHT IN BALI
NIGHT BLOSSOM
NIGHT HAWK
NIGHTLIFE
STILL LIFE WITH ROSES
PEONIES
POSIEDON'S ADVENTURE
PREMONITION
PROMETHEUS
RECLINING
RON
RUFFIAN
THE SEER
ABREAST OF BOTH WORLDS
ARE WE LIKE SHEEP
Chorus from Handel’s Messiah, Munch’s “Scream”, Beanie and Cecil
SHIP OF DREAMS
THE BARNYARD
THE BRIDGE
THE SEED
THE CONTENDER
THE COUPLE
THE SEED
THE GIFT
ON THE FIFTH DAY
This digital piece came from learning the music to, and performing, Hayden's "The Creation." It's basically about the creation of the world and all that inhabits it. This image focuses mainly on the creation of the animals with a few extras such as the "monstrous fall" of some of the angels as well as a strange alien creature that just appeared in the act of creation.
TRIBEULATION
In some ways the new digital community both embraces and denies our tribalism. The use of digital technology gives us a sense of community without there really being a physical connection. It allows us to retain a sense of the "rugged individual" while being part of a "digital tribe."
THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND
This is one of my favorite sections in Handel"s "Messiah," not only because of it dramatic content, but it signals that the end of the work is near. (If you've ever sat through or sung "Messiah" you know what I mean.) This also is a great analogy fo the end of the workday because the lyrics are "The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised." Been there, done that.
TULIPS
WALK IN THE WOODS
WAR
WATERFALL
WONDERBOY
A FINE SUMMER DAY
AROUND THE CAPE
STILLNESS IN MOTION
This is a photo of my ankles taken with my digital camera, overlayed with an image of a rolled up solar pool cover. The title comes from the concept of a sufi "whirling dervish" who find stillness and enlightenment of the soul in movement .
CARPET GOD
ZODDABIR
SPIRAL DANCE
VIRTUAL CAROUSEL
SHEE
MIDNIGHT
FRANCOIS
HORSEY
HORSE DREAMS
THERE'S A CLOWN ON THE THRONE
THE FROG AND PEAR
RUINS IN THE MOONLIGHT
SPRING
NUDE IN AMBER
THE MOTHER SHIP
TULIPS AT MIDNIGHT
AT THE POND
HOMECOMING
WAITING FOR THE BUS
WHISPERING WELL
EMERGENCE
INVENTION OP 1 (ENTRY)
This is the first in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
INVENTION OP2 (UNDER THE CANOPY)
This is the second in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
INVENTION OP 3 (STICK AND STONE)
This is the third in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
INVENTION OP 4 (THE VEIL OF NIGHT)
This is the fourth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
INVENTION OP 5 (THE RETURN OF LOP-LOP)
This is the fifth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers. The title is a homage to Max Ernst famed bird spirit Lop-lop that inhabited many of his paintings.
INVENTION OP 6 (THROUGHT THE LOOKING GLASS)
This is the sixth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
INVENTION OP 7 (SURFACES)
This is the seventh in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
INVENTION OP 8 (MID-DAY HEAT)
This is the eigth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
INVENTION OP 9 (PORTRAIT WITH ELEVATIONS)
This is the ninth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
INVENTION OP 10 (CABO FRIO)
This is the tenth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
INVENTION OP 11 (PASSION)
This is the eleventh in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
INVENTION OP 12 (THOUGHT FORM)
This is the twelfth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers as well as Nano images. The initial concept was to create an image that considered the smallness of Nano objects.While they are small, almost invisible, the concept of seeing a thought, which to this point is invisible was equally fascinating. To be able to use nano images to create a concept of something even smaller was the goal I finally settled on as the image. Overall the final result has the subtle shape of a human profile, seeing thru the skull and seeing the brain forming thoughts, images of half formed animals, eyes and beings can be seen just as thoughts form from nothing.
INVENTION OP 13 (GNOSSIENNE)
This is the thirteenth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers as well as Nano images. The initial thought behind this was to use Nano images to convey the feel of a piece of music. In this case Erik Satie's "Gnossienne: I. Lent" (as recorded on Buddha-Bar VI, interpreted by Claude Challe). The floating feeling of Satie's music, I thought, lent itself to what could be heard in the world of nano, if we could hear it. This is a purely lyrical work, mostly about dance and rhythm.
INVENTION OP 14 (EBULL12)
This is the fourteenth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers as well as Nano images.
INVENTION OP 15 (ECHOES)
This is the fifteeth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers as well as Nano images.
INVENTION OP 16 (EMERGENCE 2)
This is the sixteenth in a series of digital painting incorporating as major components photos from the 2003-2004 Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers as well as Nano images.
IN THE LABRYINTH
THE GHOST
MOONRISE
SERENITY AT SUNSET
AND THE NORTH WIND BLOWS
DESPONDENT
THE VOYEUR
Descriptions of Drawings
COURTING THE MUSE
The main figure is transparent so that it resembles the foms of Indonesian Wayang Kulit or “Shadow Play”, a unique combination of ritual, lesson, and entertainment.
TRIUMPH
