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LiFe DaY 2

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LIFE BEGINS

16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas

 

 

I bought a throw back box of LIFE cereal for this one.  That’s right, they made a box with the old LIFE logo font, a throw back.  Anyways, let me try and get a little philosophical.  This painting represents human life.  It’s like looking down onto the sidewalk from a skyscraper at a crosswalk in Tokyo.  Life is moving all around, faster than you know it can.  You see all kinds of life scrambling about.  Maybe you notice… okay that’s enough.  It’s just a painting… what you take from it is up to you.

HaRD To FiND

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DO YOU SEE IT

18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Paper

 

 

There’s really nothing in this painting to find, is there?  Unless you look hard enough for it.  Some people will see it and others won’t.  Like those magic eye pictures.  Can you see it?  If you can guess what it is… you win.  There’s nothing I swear.  Well maybe…

uFo

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ALIEN GRAFITTI

22″ x 28″ Mixed Media on Canvas

 

 

They have to be out there somewhere, who ever they are.  I should know.  I was just about finished with this painting and woke up the next day to find these lime green markings on it.  I know I locked up the studio the night before.  What are they trying to say?  Is this their way of communicating?

oN THe GRiD

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EARTH GRID

16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas

 

Are we born not knowing, are we born knowing all?  We growing wiser, are we just growing tall?  Can you read thoughts?  Can you read palms?  Can you  predict the future? can you see storms, coming?  The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off.  Now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh.  The average man can’t prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of. And still won’t research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of.  Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they’re smart and cunning.  Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that’s when their nose start running.  And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wet mud.  Can you  read signs?  Can you read stars?  Can you make peace?  Can you fight war?  Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? Huh, can you survive… Against All Odds, Now?  ~ Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley / Patience

BaNG BaNG

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mijumi Gunner T

Mixed Media on Fabric

 

 

I have t-shirts I wear while I am working that I wipe excess paint on.   This one had reached its limit and was ready to be made into something else.  I trimmed a circle out of it and bought a fresh white t-shirt.  Then I hand stitched the design onto the new shirt.  Pretty cool, huh?  If you think that is cool, listen to the next part of this story.  *I got a hold of Mike Tyson’s mailing address (with some good stalker… I mean PR work) and sent him the shirt.  I stuck a note inside that asked if he would take a photo wearing my shirt (if he liked it) and email it back to me for the site.  Well, I received an email back with the picture above!  How cool is that?  * I made the t-shirt, but the Tyson part is all made up… it would make for a weird story, maybe I’ll give it a shot…

DiFFeReNT uMBReLLa

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SQUARE DROPS

16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas

 

What if rain drops were square instead of round?  Would they fall and collapse the way that they do now?  Would the oceans, rivers and puddles still look the same?  What kind of cup would you drink from?  Would you need a new kind of windshield wipers?  Would we all need to buy a different kind of umbrella?

JuST a DooR

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PADDLE BALL DOOR

32″ x 84″ Mixed Media on Door

This is just a door.  It has hinges and a knob just like every other door.  It is made of wood.  It opens and closes.  It keeps things out and lets things in.  It locks for protection.  It unlocks to greet.  But,  this door didn’t want to be normal.  It is showing all the other doors what its really wants to be, what it is on the inside.  It went and got some artwork done to express itself.  It’s no normal door anymore.  This door is unique.  It is strong.  It is powerful.  This door will blow your doors off.  This door is…

oNe LuCKy WiNNeR

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THE ATTACK

16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas

 

 

There’s a battle going on.  Millions of soldiers march with fury in the pursuit of one goal.  Many will die along the way and only one will be strong enough to get beyond the outer walls of the fort.  Good luck brave soldiers.  Fight hard, be strong and remember… this is for the greater good of the world.

FLoaTiNG oN ToP

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AROUND the SURFACE

24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Canvas

I’m beginning to believe I am obsessed with circles.  Have I said that before?  They are the perfect shape though, aren’t they?  They’re continuous and never ending.  Maybe that is why I use them so often.  I would like my work to be that way.

GiRaFFe + DooR

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GIRAFFADOOR

24″ x 84″ Mixed Media on Door

A skinny tall door was the perfect place for this giraffe like pattern.  So, Giraffadoor was born.  I like painting on doors now.  They are a good size canvas and there are always people on Craig’s List getting rid of them.  If anyone has any extra doors layin’ around let me know.

FaMiLy FaBRiC

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MAMA’S QUILT

48″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Burlap

 

 

We never had much money growing up.  My brothers and I had to be on the reduced lunch plan at school.  One time we didn’t even have oil to heat the house on Christmas.  I got mad once because I hated the factory job she had to work.  But now, none of that stuff really ever mattered.  We had each other.  We had our health.  We had our mama’s “quilt” wrapped around us so tight that nothing could hurt us.  So, tomorrow don’t forget to pay tribute to mom.  I love you mom…

FLyiN’ By

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JELLY FLY

16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas

 

 

The fly.  The jelly.  The Jelly Fly.  Is it a creature?  Is it a new dance?  I think it’s a band.  Yeah, a friend of a friend say he saw them and they were pretty good.  Naw man, I recon tha Jelly Fly is a new lure dat’s out right ’bout now fo’ fishin’.  I thought it was a brand of hair gel.  I guess I could be wrong.

THe RoSeS

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STOP ‘n’ SMELL

18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Paper

 

 

Sometime you’ve got to.  But I like the smell of fresh cut grass more.  Smell the roses.  It doesn’t do it for me.  Just do it.  Nothing.  Nothing?  Yeah, I still think the grass is better.  Whatevs!  It’s nothing personal and it’s just a saying anyways?  What?  Yeah, really…