Category: art

Flowers Keep Emerging (No Matter What!)

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“Funds raised at our reception will support Planned Parenthood’s work toward a prevention agenda at all levels of government during 2012, including local school boards and the Arizona legislature. Donations will also support our strategies to elect pro-choice leaders who will stand up for women, choice, and access to health care.”

At the reception there will also be a raffle for artwork and jewelry. I am donating an oil painting called Flowers Keep Emerging (No Matter What)!. I think the title is apropos for the event – no matter how hard women’s issues get trampled on, we will keep on standing up and speaking up!

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Embracing the Maya – oil painting

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In Vedic philosophy, Maya is “illusion”, the veil that keeps us entangled and from experiencing the True Self (Brahman – what is really real). We experience the world as we perceive it, or, if you look at Maya as a screen, what we project onto it.

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Eighteen for Eighteen – print of Ganesha

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Eighteen for Eighteen – print of Ganesha

The Elephant-headed God, Ganesha, is most revered as the Remover of Obstacles. He is often the first God honored at the beginning of rituals in order to ensure all blockages to success are removed at the very start.

Invoke Lord Ganesha before your next project!

Eighteen is a lucky number.

Eighteen for Eighteen
linocut print
image size 9.5″ x 9.5″
edition of 18
rives BFK paper
$18.00

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Art Show in Tucson ~ Live!

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Well, I’ve been busy making art—and these last few weeks (last month or so actually) have been very intense. I have so many ideas swirling in my head and body that I can barely keep up with creating them. (It’s as if almost 10 years of writing ideas down are finally coming to fruition—sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin). And, this weekend is the Open Studio Tour, so producing has been a big focus.

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Owl Print

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Owl Print  I’ve been in love with images of owls since I was a little kid in the 70s. For a while, I was worried that art school made me too serious to make a fun piece. I loved making this print, and in keeping with the 70s vibe, this owl is an earthy dark […]

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Treasure in a Book on a Saturday Afternoon

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In the book I found not one, but two, band flyers from when I played with the Moldy Dogs in 1999. The Moldy Dogs had been around in different incarnations since the 70s (maybe even the late 60s). This version was Paul Major, Wolf Roxon, and me.

Paul Major and Wolf Roxon are two of the most talented and prolific songwriters and musicians I have ever met, let alone played with. Between the two of them, I’d say that they have about 2000 original songs. They are both incredible guitar players – and man – they can sing harmonies! We had a lot of three-part harmonies happening, and if the key wasn’t the best for my voice, they’d just change the key! Wow! What a concept! No bitching and moaning, or telling me that the key of D is what sounds best for guitar.

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“Siblings – Peru” Hand-printed Linocut

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I created this print for the people who helped me raise funds for my trip to Peru with Healer2Healer. These two children were at our clinic everyday, the young girl was very curious about the acupuncture and the reiki going on in her village. She hovered around the edge of the clinic while we worked—she greeted us every morning, and said good-bye to us every evening.

I am still processing this trip—there are so many levels of adjustment. First, just the aspect of giving healing energy and having it openly received is so beautiful; second, the amazon jungle is so full of life and healing and danger and sensuality—there is an enchanted energy there that seems to be lost on the western world; third, the power of the plant medicine that I learned about and experienced is still reverberating throughout my consciousness.

It is so apparent that whatever we do (especially as a collective here in the states – but even as individuals) has a ripple effect all around the world. I feel much more relaxed about my own existence and my ability to live in a good way. I feel like I went to a core place in my own being, am emerging slowly, but everyday am picking up speed—and I am ready for it.

Some of these prints are for sale. I am donating 10% of the sales to Healer2Healer, so that they may buy supplies, etc., for their upcoming journeys around the world. Hopefully in the near future, I will be able to join them again.

The print is an original linocut, pressed by hand with a brayer. It is made with archival printing ink and is on Arches BFK acid-free paper. The image with signature measures about 4″x4″.

I think creating this piece in a slow, laborious manner, helped me to ground my experience even further.

“Siblings – Peru” Hand-printed Linocut
$25.00
Series of 50

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