sketch 3

playing with the omega symbol as a whole... typically we see one or the reversed other...

charcoal, small stone shadow effect with Water on Rice paper

18" x 21"

omega duality in astrology there is the North and South Nodes that graphically use this symbol as opposing companions and through a wholistic perspective they can be seen as the duality with one axis and as part of a greater whole of infinite markings...

no beginning / no end 

a reference to timelessness and spacelessness…

small stones placed with charcoal and Water creating marks of interest once dry with small stones removed sketch below...

playing with the omega symbol as a whole... typically we see one or the reversed other...

charcoal, small stone shadow effect with Water on Rice paper

18" x 23"

omega duality in astrology there is the North and South Nodes that graphically use this symbol as opposing companions and through a wholistic perspective they can be seen as the duality with one axis and as part of a greater whole of infinite markings...

no beginning / no end 

a reference to timelessness and spacelessness…

playing with the omega symbol as a whole... typically we see one or the reversed other...

charcoal, small stone shadow effect with Water on Rice paper

18" x 20"

Spring, dark and light orbs

Earth pigments with Water and Metal pan(s)

12"d

applied red (Earth), green (Heart) and violet (Spirit) Earth pigments onto the surface 

of clockwise stirred circularly Spring rain water within two coupled Metal pans. as the 12th, 

14th and 16th day of the month the metaphor of the number 6 appears. the most important

 influence of the 6 is its loving and caring nature. it's about sacrificing, caring, healing, protecting and teaching others. no one, no family or no community can function without the energy of the 6 to maintain the unit together, safe and healthy. They are the cohesive energies that keep self, family or community together. these energies are of the dimensionalities of positive and negative characteristics depending on the lifestyles of the involved. the container within the container will represent the holding of one space by another space, or the caretaker(s) and the care receiver(s). the relationship of light and dark exists as a balanced dance in space and time...

4/12/15

4/14/15

4/16/15

Spring, dark and light orb

Earth pigments (red, green & violet) & evaporated Water with Metal pan(s)

12"d

4/12/15

Spring, dark and light orbs

Earth pigments with Water and Metal pan(s)

12"d

4/9/15

applied red (Earth), green (Heart) and violet (Spirit) Earth pigments onto the surface of clockwise stirred circularly Spring rain water within two coupled Metal pans. as the 9th day of the month the metaphor of the number 9 and the container within the container can represent setting limits and establishing firm boundaries... and here with one photo image above and the other below the number 8 formed by the circles suggests an infinite space. the circle can also represent an infinity... the relationship of light and dark exists as a balanced dance in space and time...

somewhere

Earth pigments, Mica and wheat on paper

8" x 10"

the "3 somes" is in honor with all to the fall/leveling of the power elite. the same some___ words I heard Dick Gregory speak with @30+ years ago at SUNY/New Paltz. the first of the 3 somes...

sometime

Earth pigments, Mica and wheat on paper

8" x 10"

the "3 somes" is in honor with all to the fall/leveling of the power elite. the same some___ words I heard Dick Gregory speak with @30+ years ago at SUNY/New Paltz. the first of the 3 somes...

somehow

Earth pigments, Mica and wheat on paper

8" x 10"

Between the Summer Solstice & the Full Moon

16” x 25”

Earth pigments & flaked paint

Og Wheat paste

Watermelon juice & pulp

Cassein fixative

Khadi paper

some of our process...

bright in the summer Sun Khadi paper is laid out with eaten watermelon’ juice & pieces. I’ve mixed wheat flour for stability in adhering to the paper. The watermelon juice filled with sugars will act as a binder, preservative and as colorant.

a dish filled with Yellow Ochre pigment, wheat paste & water is ready for final application with Green Ochre & Blue Oxide color pigments already established on the paper…

finalizing work with Cassein fixative