Night Swimming
Mortal Sorrows
I painted Mortal Sorrows to help find personal answers to the troubles brewing beyond my 40 acres of wild land. Forty acres to foster is a large area and yet it is not enough to shelter me from the oncoming social and political crises. I have had a reoccurring nightmare for decades of desperately attempting…
Read MoreEvery Day Angels
I have come to a place recently where I feel that idealism no matter how soft or restrained is the only path to correcting civilizations many wrongs. Although there may be hordes of people who no longer believe in the power of pulling together and sacrificing for the good of all, there are small clusters,…
Read MoreWitness
Witness is a painting that speaks of all my mentors who have departed but have left me behind with their visions of art and life that included their hopes for me. I love them all for what they helped me to break up so that I could move on into my life as a mature…
Read MoreThe Uncertainty Of Gender
For a year or so, my eldest child came to live with me in the woods while transitioning her gender. During her stay, she noted the phenomena of figures between the trees. Many of them became like bogeymen in her psyche. We fought her troubling entities side by side. After that time, I began to…
Read MoreThe Good Book
The forest in the Pacific Northwest with its tall trunks, diagonal branches and slanted light has m, at times, seeing figures among the trees. My worries and concerns and inner dream world can create a sense of people and animals shimmering in and out of sight. The somber man in black who defies the rules…
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