Sleepwalk--watercolor, acrylic, oil, textured oil, book pages, gold leaf, soil on canvas--14" x 18"
Door For a Dead Child--acrylic on board--8" x 10"
In a dream, I saw a bright red door floating in blackness and, as in many dreams where we simply "know" something to be true, I "knew" that this door was especially for a child who had recently died. This child was to use the door to get to the next realm or stage of evolution after this life.
This piece is somehow inspired not only by this dream but by the bizarre falling death of Eric Clapton's son and another dream in which I watched a little girl who was dying of an incurable disease draw pictures for me. This door seems to belong to all of them. I hope they find it and use it.
Evening Dose
acrylic on board--5" x 7"
Morning Dose
acrylic on board--5" x 7"
Pills
acrylic on board--5" x 7"
We place so much faith in medicine; pills are tiny little dots full of things we don't know or understand and swallow withou t thinking. In some ways, they are like magic. These images are devotional images/fetishes, elevating a small thing that we take for granted.
Saul Is Colorblind But It's Okay I
Oil on mat board--16" x 13"
Saul Is Colorblind But It's Okay II
Oil on mat board--16" x 13"
The paintings above were inspired by a neighbor from my childhood. Although he was colorblind, Saul liked to paint. One day his wife told my mother that he had painted a portrait of their dog but that he had made the dog pink. My mother seemed to think that this was something to be pitied but I remember thinking that it was his painting and he could make his dog any color he wanted. Who says you have to use the colors in the paint-by-numbers set?
