Three Bells

Oil and resin on sculpted foam

50x  37 x 8 inches

2023

Just outside the back of his callused mind

compressed onto a shiny metal orb,

a conjured notion avoids, untethered.

Touch and felt impression hesitantly ignored.

Retinal cognition will assure its design

yet a plurality of faculty fails to absorb,

it’s weight, “not seen”, radius “lacks measure”.

The tally of gods denounces, yet a single eye implored.

With adjacent hemisphere’s approval maligned

and memory in denial, objectivity was poised to abhor,

a visceral slab of bone, powerfully descends in leather.

Its Celsius pulse, not in accord…

Under and behind fallen tears, streams combine

They splash and puddle, as losses scored,

He being diminished, himself the transgressor.

With thought and perception divergent, his future unmoored.

La Faire Amore' II

oil on canvas over sculpted foam on board

65 ht x 54 wd x 5 dpth inches

2023

Pain and desire invert posture momentarily, it began.

Under the weighty demand of hope, they

paused.

Loves laser light illumination,

ended.

Their negative double exposure reappeared before their existence in, the

past.

STAR

oil on canvas over sculpted foam on board

65 ht x 54 wd x 5 dpth inches

2022

The colliding background pieces of turquoise and cobalt violet on yellow were executed as separate designs, with less concern to supporting the overall composition. This approach is much different in a background than I might normally undertake.

My hope is to capture the viewers interest with the background first, possibly a default approach to pictorial success. I want the color here to be like food, the thick texture (feel) of the oil paint mixed with sand is equally important as the taste (hue),when held on the tongue.

Her foreshortened torso bent forward toward the viewer, while turning on axis upon one leg, allows the position of the other three limbs to pose with her stylized hair shape to form a five-pointed STAR.

I chose to wrap each point of the star in a ribbon of ultramarine oil,emphasizing the radial aspect of each arm, leg and hair. Later coating the surface with tiny crystals,(which may not be perceptible in this photograph).The crystal coating lightened the ultramarine hue effectively.

The five-pointed star, first appear in Egyptian iconography, later in Mesopotamian cuneiform , ultimately adopted to symbolize the western culture.

 

NEST

oil over sculpted media

60 ht x 48 wd x 6 dpth inches

2022

Love in the Ruins, a motif for the ages.

The Bald Eagle nestled inside the man; it embodies his relentless instinct to dominate ,forcing his prey to submit.

 Seen here, aggressively seeking an exit. His lover it appears, will have none of it, exhilarated by its prowess.  Her hand preventing the predator’s escape.

 Or is her hand evicting the bird, thus taming her chosen mate.

Americans assign an array of attributes to this bird. Having observed them in their natural habitat they live up to these and more.

 

CULT OF ISIS

oil and mixed on canvas over board

frame copper wrapped over wood

60 ht x 72 wd x 7 dpth inches

2022

The Pharaoh Akhenaten is released from the soft protective wings of ISIS - a high queen of Egypt according to ancient Egyptian mythology. She presides as protector and consort of the dead.

The moment has arrived, she casts him gently in the direction of the opening in the tomb wall, he drifts toward the time-space continuum …. Anibus awaits.

Anibus, the dog-headed god presided over the mummification process, and now serves as guardian of the portal to the afterlife. The mortal king of Egypt is represented by the sculpted bust, but his immortal soul is not visible. Anibus will entrust the pharaoh unto Sekret in his journey through time.

In the foreground a mortal woman is poised, she offers herself to the assembled Cult of Isis. Anibus focuses the cosmic ray upon her, and she is transformed into Sekret.

The silver inlaid alchemist symbols, upon her limbs, entitle her unique human qualifications; allegiance, stealth, magik and healing.

 

JOYFUL

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Background: oil over canvas sculpted foam

Figure: oil over sculpted coated foam

Frame: brushed aluminum channel

65 x 43 x 4 inches

2020

 

UNDER HEAVEN

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oil on canvas over sculpted foam, figure oil over

sculpted foam coated

frame copper wrapped over wood

72 x 50 x 5 inches

2020

Ethereal mirror, azure surrounds

Longitudinal waves stream Verde and Lime

Love's, former purpose abandoned for now.

Rather, Jete' glissade intersects verve and time.

Imperial poise breaks the barrier of sound.

Heptagonal theorem, curves and angles align.

Thereof he who yearned, sadness endowed.

Gathered void in upturned palm, heaven's sign.

Material Lavender meanders her gown

Tangential vole', planter flexion defined.

Dove in flight, Avant beauty unbowed

Patter-Pitter brise', frappe refined.

Zeal la Turquoise transparent renown

Proverbial treasure of earth be mine.

Above and around brushed copper enshrouds.

Lathered flesh aloft, a body sublime.

STREAM OF DREAMS

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oil on canvas over board

resin water, sculpted foam, oak frame

80x46 inches

2020

Eddies unspool fine scarlet strings,

Cantilevered spine, immersion begins.

Alizarin crimson untwines, Dolly Vardan collides.

In playful sport, they seek and hide.

Arching vertebrae of myth and bone,

protect Cutthroat and German Brown alone.

Fauve fingertips stake metacarpal cape.

anointed sediment touched, cause crustacean unsafe.

~

Knitted steeple bows above, shadow stream’s floor,

swift music hums, ‘yearning amore’.

Violet muse, the wandering kind

dwelling in mist, ether, and mind.

Perpetual dream in an endless night

awake nor dead, matters naught.

Craving Hooved beast, her fantasy sought,

A lone Satyr tenderly caught.

Bosom’s warm cauldron now to restore,

Brook trout ascend and Rainbows soar.

~

Feminine muse, ERATO wanders free,

child of powerful Zeus, and Mnemosyne.

Cloned of dorsal fishes, with shape-shifting allure,

irresistible force, stalking centaur procured.

Appeased alas, she enters the creek,

Siren’s magnetism, Aphrodite’s beauty competes,

prefers teasing trout, shiny and sleek.

~

ERATO traversed centuries of depiction,

Appears here alas in oil paints lustrous fine fiction,

Artist fingers pinch brush, a conception in paint, depicting sleeps intricate vision.

Where Species swim glazed with careful precision.

Muse in supple forms tying Grayling tatted fin,

sojourning continues her legend of sin.

The painter unseen at vanishing point, behind dream’s pale light,

Dwelling place of one artist acolyte.