The Intermissions

In the battles of life, there is loss, persistence, and deliverance. Some of these episodes, more dramatic than others,  serve as pillars or beacons in our own timelines. Yet, then there are the lulls or periods of recovery from and preparation for past and future battles -- the necessary intermissions in between that often feel nameless but impact us nevertheless, sometimes in more important ways than the memorable events of our pasts.  During these times we have clarity and confusion, we may have time to meditate on ideas or analyze our circumstances, we make decisions and plans, but we also encounter the unknowable and attempt to resolve our states of being or create some kind of understanding or simplification to the unexplainable complexities in life. The previous sentence needs to be simplified.     

Intermission IV, 45" x 45", oil, acrylic, paper and fabric on canvas, 2015. Part of my Rise Fall Rise series. 

Doodle of the Day - The Toed

Parking in Los Angeles can be tough . . . 

Happy Friday!

Doodle of the Day - Bachelor Hookup

The northern white rhino is going extinct. According to the Washington Post, only five are left in the entire world. Several attempts have been made to increase their numbers, including the following . . .

The Deal

This work is not a "painting" in the traditional sense, as it includes sculptural elements such as game-used hockey sticks, goalie cage, and bees sculpted with clay, wire, and epoxy resin. Some of the bees appear to hover a few inches away from the surface, and the surface itself has ridges, indentations, and various forms in an irregular shape. These are some things that might get lost on a computer screen. 

Part of my Rise Fall Rise series, this piece continues the theme: the surface includes papers -- legal opinions from California courts (torn from California Reporter) as metaphors for controversies we may encounter in our lives; the hockey sticks and goalie cage are used by a hockey goalie for defense and protection; the playing cards are the deal, perhaps random, perhaps stacked; and the bees represent a society or community and those stings we get, a single one or a potentially fatal swarm. Even when we think we are prepared, the stings can find their way in.   

The Deal, 63" x 59", oil, acrylic, game-used hockey sticks and goalie cage, playing cards, clay, epoxy resin, aluminum screen, wire, wood, paper, plastic sheet, canvas, 2015.