This piece was done for the group Pomplamoose and can bee seen prominently in their original VideoSong “Read Me” (2021) and their cover of the New Radicals’ song “You Get What You Give” (2021). Click on the video titles to view them.
Oct. 2021
Oct. 2021
Encaustic and Paint Pour works
These works are varying sizes: 12x12, 8x10, and 10x10.
Commissions
1) Crow Drawing, 8x10, 2019. 2) Telepathy is Real, 18x24, 2019. 3) Mythobiogenesis, 11x17, 2019.
NOTES: “Telepathy is Real” is based on the song of the same name by Half Shadow. Listen to it HERE. The title “Mythobiogenesis” is based on the dissertation by my friend John Bonaduce: Mythobiogenesis: The Cellular Origin of Myth, Religion, and Ritual. Download it HERE.
Alchemy Series
Opus, 18x24, Mixed Media, 2018. Alchemy series. Opus was part of the Art of the 7th “Mirrors of the Mind” exhibit at Santa Monica Art Studios, Nov 21st - Dec 1st, 2018.
Opus means “work,” as in the Magnum Opus (the Great Work) of Alchemy. This piece is a compilation of five mixed-media paintings that I made in June-July 2018. I created a textured painting with a gradient. I scanned the painting into the computer and based each work on the symbols of the four stages of the alchemical process. “Opus” is the assemblage of those five pieces, displaying all the stages of alchemy in one piece: nigredo, albedo, citrinitas, and rubedo.
Golden Understanding, 8x10, Mixed Media, 2018. Alchemy series. “Golden Understanding” was part of the 33rd “No Big Heads” exhibit at the Hugh McPeck Gallery in Anchorage, Alaska, Oct 18 - Nov 7, 2018. It was my first national juried art show.
This Mixed Media self-portrait depicts conscious and unconscious mind: 2/3 is full of alchemical imagery that represent the unconscious, the top 1/3 is a golden field, representing the conscious mind. The term “golden understanding” refers to alchemy (Jung, CW 12, para. 381, or Jung on Alchemy 65).
Golden Understanding, 18x24, Mixed Media, 2018. Alchemy series. This larger, 18x24 piece was done first. I later heard about the “No Big Heads” exhibit, and made the smaller 8x10 version to apply to the exhibit. See size comparisons and detailed images in the carousel below.
Albedo, 18x24, 2018. Alchemy series. Published in Immanence: the journal of applied myth, story, and folklore Spring/Summer 2019 Vol. 3 No. 2. Download HERE. I also published my second short story: The First Jubliee, A Modern Midrash.
No Skull is a Stranger, 11x17, 2018. Alchemy series.
Lapis, 11x17, 2018. Alchemy series.
The three prominent symbols also come from alchemy: the tria prima of sulphur, salt, and mercury.
Political Artwork
The Trump Regime, 24x36, Mixed Media on art board, 2018.
This piece is a U.S. flag made out of a collage/assemblage of elements. The field of 50 stars is a painting of the nighttime sky with a photo of a chain link fence over it, commenting that the American dream has been fenced off. The red stripes of the flag are made out of children’s hand prints (my own children), representing the children separated from their parents at the U.S./Mexico border. The white stripes are made out of a collage of the following: Trump tweets; Declassified House Republicans’ Russia investigation memo; Declassified House Democrats’ Russia investigation rebuttal memo; the 29-page indictment of 12 Russians the Mueller investigation made on July 13, 2018; and a news article from 2018 about the family separations at the U.S./Mexico border
Antifa, 24x36, Mixed Media, 2018. Antifa series.
“Antifa” refers to the movement of anti-fascist activist groups in America, based on earlier European movements/groups. This piece is based on three Antifa art pieces I made in September 2017, less than one month after the neo-Nazi and Antifa clashed in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is a compilation of mini-sized posters of those original digital pieces. The saying on the central one is based on William Shakespeare’s line, “Once more unto the breach, dear friends.” Another is based on Princess Leia’s famous line from Star Wars (1977): “Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” The third statement is based on the idea that political action must happen.
Carousel images below: 1) Once More Unto the Breach, 18x24, Digital, Sept. 2017. Antifa series. 2) Action Must Be Taken, 18x24, Digital, Sept. 2017. Antifa series. 3) Help Me, Antifa, 18x24, Digital, Sept. 2017. Antifa series. 4) Antifa Portrait, 2018.
Obama and McCain: Zachary’s Dinner Guests, 24x36, Mixed Media, 2009. This piece was done as part of Zachary’s Pizza poster contest. It was in circulation at Zachary’s Pizza restaurants from 2009-2017.
Artwork 2005-2016
God-Images, 11x17, Mixed Media, 2017* This piece was published in 2018 in Between Literary Journal, vol. 21, p. 23. * This particular piece has had quite the evolution and has been with me for 12 years: Originally drawn in 2006, colors added in 2016, partly redrawn (dharma wheel, upper right) in 2017, and finally published in 2018. If you're wondering what the image is in the upper left--it's dingir--see the Wikipedia entry HERE
Manifold, 11x17, Mixed Media, 2018. This piece was published in 2018 in Between Literary Journal, vol. 21, p. 58. This piece began as a drawing for a book I was doing back in 2007 based on the lyrics of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," specifically the line: "And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it". Redrawn for Between Literary Journal as a vertical, portrait-style piece.
Blue Flower, 11x17, Mixed Media, 2018. This piece was published in 2018 in Between Literary Journal, vol. 21, p. 46. This piece was based on the rose that I drew for "Ode to a Deer" (published 2017, Cosmos & Logos, vol. III). I recreated the rose using a watercolor paint swatch that I made years ago. The design in the background is a traditional Islamic girih ("knot"). For info, see link in comments.
I also published three poems! “What Should I Tell You?”, “Lament, 5778 (2017)”, and “Mandalic Grace”. Please see carousel below.
Rain King, 36x42, Acrylic, 2004. This piece was published in 2017 in the journal Cosmos and Logos vol. III, pg. 17. Buy this issue HERE.
Son of Jung, 11x17, Mixed Media, 2017. This piece was published in 2017 in the journal Cosmos and Logos vol. III, pg. 19. Buy this issue HERE.
Ode to a Deer, 11x17, Mixed Media, 2017. This piece was published in 2017 in the journal Cosmos and Logos vol. III, pg. 18. Buy this issue HERE.
I also published an essay titled “The Devil and His Grandmother”. See the carousel below.
Angel, 11x17, Mixed Media, 2007-2015. This piece was published as the cover of the Between Journal, vol. 20 in 2017.
I also published my first short story: Dark Cloud, Rolling Thunder.
Artwork 2005-2016
Carousel images below: 1) Holy Man, 11x17, Mixed Media, 2) The End is Near, 11x17, Mixed Media, 2016, 3) Four Functions, 14x14, Mixed Media, 2016, 4) O Rousseau, 14x17, Color Pencil, 2016
Carousel images below: 1) Jan 24, 2007, 14x17, Pen&Ink, 2) Jellyfish, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2016, 3) Steampunk Muse, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2010, 4) Metatron, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2015, 5) Muse, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2010, 6) What’re You Lookin’ At?, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2010, 7) Gaia Thinks in Paisley, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2010, 8) Stop Squeezing My Brain!, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2010, 9) Moby Dick, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2017, 10) Moses Akenaton, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2015, 11) Tomes, 2015, 12) Dreams, Oct. 2015, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2015, 13) The Golden Age, 11x17, Pen&Ink, 2016
Artwork 2003-2004
Carousel images below: 1) Three Students, 2003-2004 (After Picasso’s “Three Musicians”), 2) Three Students angled shot 3) Representations, 2003, 4) Representations angled shot
Vertical carousel images below: 1) Bartender, 24x36, Acrylic, 2004, 2) Black Rosary, 12x16, Acrylic, 3) Angel, 36x42, Acrylic
Horizontal carousel images below: 1) Contemplations of Mohammed, 24x36, Acrylic, 2004, 2) Nearing the Bridge, 12x16, Acrylic, 3) Thinking Under a Tree, 16x20, Acrylic, 4) World Trade Center, 12x16, Acrylic, 5) You Make Me Want to Cry, 18x24, Acrylic, 6) Track 7, 12x16, Acrylic
Noir Series, 2003
Noir Tryptich images below: 1) Women and Guns 2) Explosion 3) Fall
Carousel images below: 1) Sketch for “Women and Guns” 2) Brown Specter 3) Jennifer’s Nightclub 4) Gunman’s Business 5) Nighttime Mic 6) Electronic Eye
Photography
Check out the 74 photos in the carousel below, taken 2009 - Present
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The following 36 photos in the grid below were taken between 2003-2005.
Drawings
These drawings, portraits, self-portraits, landscapes, and figure drawings were all done circa 2000 - 2005. Various media used: Pen&Ink, oil pastels, pencil, digital, & charcoal.
Sculpture
