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| I'm exploring a universal visual
language that embraces and transcends separate cultures … that can
heal by integrating images from widely disparate sources. Micro-photographs
and tribal art. Natural forms and archetypal symbols. Crop circles forming
grounded sacred geometries. |
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Our planet home floats in deep space, profuse with "stars" made
of tiny tungsten atoms in their crystalline light-diffraction pattern. Spiraling
above Earth is a heart-shaped labyrinth centered in the middle east. Around
the planet, a circular labyrinth becomes the folds of a brain, reflecting
an emerging planetary consciousness. |
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Inspired by the Mary Oliver poem "White Owl Flies
Into And Out of the Field": "… so I thought: maybe death
isn't darkness after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us
— as soft as feathers … that we … let ourselves be carried
to the river that is nothing but light … in which we are washed and
washed out of our bones."
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River of Light
at Moment of Death
2002
acrylic on paper
$850 framed
note
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The handprints of 13 women friends encircle
a jeweled world whose labyrinthine forms are
mythical female figures woven by Kayabi Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
The handwritten words are from the song "Prayer of the Children"
composed by Kurt Bestor during the war in Bosnia:
Can you feel the hearts of the children
Aching for home,
for something of their very own?
Reaching hands with nothing to hold on to,
but hope for a better day, a better day.
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A single living leaf falls before its time. Companions
in a pool mirror other leaves, freed from their trees, transforming into
stars. Leaf-Spirit glows amidst a radiating pattern -- sound made visible
-- sand particles dancing together on a vibrating metal disc. The Creation
sings of renewal and rebirth
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Return to the Source
2003,
26 x 36 inches
acrylic, papers, leaves, inkjet on canvas
$850
note
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Emergence
2002
22½ x 28½ inches
mixed media and paper collage
$900 framed
note
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Spirals dance as fluid new worlds emerge from
a parallel universe into the shared deep space of stars and subatomic particles
. . . all bounded by Moroccan, Maori, Taoist, African, runes, and magnetic-domain
patterns. |
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Random tangle of cedar branch arms curving upwards in
death, embracing blue sky. This wooden web weaves its tangle of threads
between chaos and order, crocheting a geometric symmetric star into being.
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Cedar Branch Tangle
2002
acrylic on board
$500 framed
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Stained Glass Forest
2002
20x28 inches
inkjet prints and acrylic
on board
$650
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A pattern moves from pine bark to glass panes,
from seeming-chaos to order. The images are from 37 Views from Lone Bobcat
Woods, drawings and paintings made in the span of a year as I looked out
each window from our house on 160 acres of forest land in the west slope
of the Sierra Nevada mountains. |
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Cover art for Sacred Space music album. A luminous-colored
gothic rose window, freed from its earthbound frame, rises into deep sacred
space.
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Sacred Space
1980
printed paper, acrylic on board
not for sale
note
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Rhythm of Life
1982
30x39½ inches
dyes and acrylic on boar
$650 unframed
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Cover art for Rhythm of Life music album.
The quintessential form of growth, spirals dance to the poly-rhythms of
Balinese gamelan music. |
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