Gothic Break Out; acrylic on canvas; 24x48 in; 2009
Returning somewhat to the style of a painting from 1989, I painted this canvas at the request of my son. He wanted a black and white painting that had dance figures. I wanted to do an abstracted figure shape in a horizontal multilimbed pose. Kali as a gothic break dancer. We were both satisfied.
Ice Field Shapenings; acrylic on canvas; 54x72 in; 1989
Birds Brain; acrylic on canvas; 2007
Ear Heart; acrylic on canvas; 2007
Janus Head; Acrylic on canvas; 2007
Kwakiutl Face; acrylic on canvas; 2007
These head paintings are from 2007. Bird Brains is an image from a dream. Ear Heart came shortly after, while listening to some Brazilian music. Janus Head developed while scrawling lines on the canvas. And Kwakiutl Face was painted after walking along Hastings near Main when I passed a woman who for a very brief moment I thought was wearing a Kwakiutl mask although she clearly wasn’t; it was just that her facial expression was so mask-like.
Visual Formations 