"The Butterfly Corral"

Size: 30" x 23" SOLD

This piece was inspired by the spirit of fiesta in our town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The townspeople never tire of organizing and participating in celebrations to mark any occasion.The girls in butterfly costume are from the springtime festival parade.
The "Toro" is actually from another fiesta day where the town runs the bulls through the streets much like the famous event in Pamplona, Spain.I have combined the two ideas with the purpose of providing an inquisitive image that starts out as simply amusing but may provide more to ponder as well.
Here images of pure innocence and raw natural strength get a chance to play off of one another. The rope lines really got the idea going for me when I saw they could function with the girls as a "Butterfly Corral".

"Daisy Boy Walks with the Sky"

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"Front Back Knit"

Size: 16" x 20" SOLD

This image came out of a philosophical discussion about duality. The idea of attempting to find a reconciliation between the "two" and the "one" spurred me on to find a visual analogy to this idea. I wrote a small piece on beauty for our newsletter where I tried to find room for the possibility that one component of beauty may actually be objective in nature. So this image gained strength for me after the fact because I now see it as bringing together the subjective and objective components of beauty. The "knit" pattern comes from my wife's new hobby and seemed an apt metaphor.

"I'll Be"

Size: 13" x 17 3/4" Price: $475

This conversation diptich (along with "I'll Be") was my first attempt at creating a more complex, overlayed image accomplished with two separate wax and dye sequences. The imagery is cross-cultural with the couple (photographed at a music festival sitting in lawn chairs) distinctly American and the image from Chinese ancestor houses (actually from Penang, Malaysia) used as the "story" overlay.

"The Darndest Thing"

Size: 13" x 17 3/4" Price: $475

This conversation diptich (along with "I'll Be") was my first attempt at creating a more complex, overlayed image accomplished with two separate wax and dye sequences. The imagery is cross-cultural with the couple (photographed at a music festival sitting in lawn chairs) distinctly American and the image from Chinese ancestor houses (actually from Penang, Malaysia) used as the "story" overlay.

"Its Snow Mountain"

Size: 22" x 22" Price: SOLD

I return to the subject of mountains with this piece, using a title with a pun reference to both the Zen koan that begins; "First there is a mountain..." as well as Magritte's, "This is not a pipe" (Ceci n'est pas une pipe). The sky pattern uses the Pali (Tibetan) script character for "OM" in repetitive pattern.