Briar Rose, the Frog Prince & Other Old Stories

When I started this series of paintings and drawings, I wanted to make them more directly personal than my previous work. Something more like the Blues or the Country-Western music I grew up with or like early Chinese love poems. And, at the same time, something like the work of the early Renaissance Sienese painter, the Osservanza Master, whose small paintings have a haunting intensity. These were later paired with totem "mesostics" a simple poetic form created by John Cage to help him interpret Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake." CLICK to view 6 of 13.

Campeche Canons

These large-scale works on paper were based on 2 dreams, one of an exploding landscape that ended with all cooing into focus upon the gulf shore of Mexico and the other, where liturigal music was being sung to jazz improvistions, "The Campeche Canons". CLICK to view 3 wall-sized pieces.