Elections 2004

Yes, kind of dated, but I loved the idea of displaying the candidates on their designated party mascots in a playground setting. The joke being that they are spoiling for a race on vehicles that don't go any where. The background is filled up with characters of the then current media arena. Dick Cheney, John Edwards, Michael Moore, Osama Bin Laden, US Marine finding Saddam Hussein in a hole.  How times change, yet stay the same!

Rita and Maria

Rita and Maria are just 2 girls enjoying themselves, out on the town.  Rita is a little more worldly than Maria. Kind of Thelma and Louise in a cartoon world.

Navajo Wind

This guy would probably have the most valid opinion of "American Arrowhead"

American Arrowhead

Going a little graphic here yet painterly. This watercolor shows some of my work while I was fascinated with arrowheads and gemstones. I would love to do a whole series of paintings of both really BIG!  Super-imposing the American flag on this provokes strong reactions from everybody. People are not neutral with their opinion but  they tend to have assumptions based on personal beliefs, which I have found fascinating. If you are "LEFT" than it's America as a warring society. If you are "RIGHT" than it's America as a strong, protective society.  It's an arrowhead with an American flag on it! Yet it can't just be that can it? Not even with myself.

I first created this image along time ago with a male subject and of course wanted to recreate it as a woman too. I simplified it far more than it's predicessor. I felt it is more effective but I will post the male version too, so you can see the difference.

Burning Desire

A metaphor for our desires that come from our connection to our bodies.  They can be our ruin in how they control us.  Our subject seems to have lost a finger already, or maybe it's just folded out of site.  Our mind is where we judge what is prudent with our desires.  We can give in and let it trap us or is it possible our minds can save us too. The moment is held between both fates.

Mother Nature (Young)

I saw a  young girl on a bus one day and she had set her hair like a bouquet of flowers. she sat looking down as she read a book and she seemed to glow!  Her hair was amazing like it was flowering!  She was amazing!  Calm and composed and beautiful, like a wood spirit or mother nature at a young age, I had to re-create the moment.