LIFE CYCLE
24″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Wood
Is it pre-determined? Is it all a matter of chance? Does everything happen for a reason? Why do the good ones have to die young? He lived to be 100 years old and ate oatmeal everyday. She was only 13 and had the whole world ahead of her. I can’t believe he’s gone. It seems like only yesterday. Do we all have our own life cycles? Is it written? Can we break the cycle? Can we change the future?
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.
LIFE IS HAZEY
11″ x 15″ Pen & Prismacolor on Watercolor Paper
We only get one while we’re here and we can’t even remember most of the beginning parts. What was I thinking about when I was in those first few years? How were all of these things around me shaping the person I am today? There are such high hopes for you when you are brand new. Did my mother know that when she gave me a piece of paper and a box of crayons that it would turn into this?
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…
HELIPAD
16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas
I have a huge tree in my front yard that loves to make a mess. It dropped all of these helicopters on my driveway. Maybe they were a gift though. Maybe the tree had been watching me over the past few months out in the driveway and studio painting. It must have wanted to take part in the project. Thanks buddy.
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?
CALMER THAN YOU ARE
11″ x 15″ Prismacolor on Watercolor Paper
What is everyone so worried about? Life? Life goes on and on and on and… Think about the hardest part of your day today and realize it isn’t really that hard at all. Someone out there has got it way worse than you do. People are dying of hunger while others honk their horns in line at the drive-thru because the service isn’t fast enough. Back off the horn and calm down a little. Calm is a state of mind, the state of my mine.
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
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…
BAYOU DRIP
36″ x 48″ Crayon on Canvas
If you happened to make it to the Enfield Square event in April then you might have seen this piece while it was being made. A lot of crayons and a lot of patience went into this one. What made it even better were all of the smiling faces watching the dripping crayons race down the canvas. I think there might have been a few new crayon melters born that day.
KILLIN’ IT 79
48″ x 54″ Mixed Media on Burlap
Just messin’ around with some spray paint.
mijumi JAH DRAIN T-SHIRT
Aerosol on Fabric
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” ~Jah Rastafari
RED SCHOOL
18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Paper
I want to live in the sea. I want to be a small fish and travel the world with my family and pack of good friends. There’d be no jobs or house/yard work and we’d eat our meals along the journeys. We’d get to see so many cool places and meet other schools from around the world. They would tell us where they’ve been and what they’ve seen. I want to be free in the ocean drifting around with nothing to worry about.
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?
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…