GOING STREAKING
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
We’re going streaking! Sorry, sorry, we’re goin’ streaking through the quad and then to the gymnasium. Come on everybody! Come on! Snoop! Snoop-a-loop! Snoop…uh, no, it’s cool! It’s cool! I’m cool, bring your green hat. Let’s go! Come on everybody we’re goin! – Frank the Tank
WEEDS
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
You get in the way. They call you ugly. You ruin things. They don’t give you a chance. You don’t belong here. They rip out your being. Be strong. Stand tall. Hold on. You are here for a reason. They don’t see it, but you know it and that’s all that matters.
RED EYE
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
It is not known exactly what causes the Great Red Spot’s reddish color. Theories supported by laboratory experiments suppose that the color may be caused by complex organic molecules, red phosphorus, or yet another sulfur compound. The Great Red Spot (GRS) varies greatly in hue, from almost brick-red to pale salmon, or even white. The reddest central region is slightly warmer than the surroundings, which is the first evidence that the Spot’s color is affected by environmental factors. The spot occasionally disappears from the visible spectrum, becoming evident only through the Red Spot Hollow, which is its niche in the South Equatorial Belt. The visibility of GRS is apparently coupled to the appearance of the SEB; when the belt is bright white, the spot tends to be dark, and when it is dark, the spot is usually light. ~Jupiter
PATTERNS WILL RUN
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
This painting started out in typical mijumi fashion. Circle, circle, dot, dot and a few splashes here and there. But I didn’t like the end result. I took a thin piece of wood and dragged it across the painting while it was still wet. Then added in some more circles and lines. Sometimes you have to change what you’ve made to make something better.
SHOE BOX DESTROYED
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
Flip-flops. Boi have ya seen mi flip-flops? Da ones dat came in dis shoe box? Da box dat mi rip de top off. Cuz de top, I mek it pop-off. When I tek off and start upon mi walk. Down to de beach and den I stop. Chat up mi friend ’bout wot gonna blast off. Tonite is de nite of de jump-off. Where ya see dat gal who ’bout to pop-off. She get close up and no goin’ to back off. So ya go to de place te get ya rock off. And next ting ya know she dun tek off. And ya stuck all alone wit’ no flip-flops… wit’ no flip-flops… wit’ no flip-flops…
C U IN THE STORM
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
For some reason some of my paintings remind me of storms. Snow storms or rain storms either gently falling flakes or with drops fiercely exploding. I liked the colors in the Radiating Beauty painting and got pretty good feed back so, I wanted to try something different with similar colors. I used some half circle tubes in this one. That’s where the C and U come from. The storm is coming…
INTO THE 80’s
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
Gremlins, Goonies & Ghostbusters. Growing Pains, Punky Brewster & Voltron. Hammer Pants, tight rolled jeans & Jams shorts. Samba Classics, white high-top sneakers & Patrick Ewings. Getting a flat-top with a fade, lines on the sides & shaving the Nike flight symbol into the back of my head. Those were the 80’s for me. What were yours…?
mijumi Painter T
Mixed Media on Fabric
It’s crazy what a plain white t-shirt ends up looking like after a month or so of painting in it. It would be kinda cool if it could end up like this one, but that would be a challenge. I actually just took the shirt and laid it over one of my paintings while it was still wet. If you are good at recognizing images you might know what painting the pattern on this shirt is from. Can you guess which one? Answer
RED T PEOPLE
14″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Fabric
This piece is from my original “smock” that I began painting in for the year-long project. I was going to toss is, but saw something in it that I thought was cool. People marching. I don’t know what they are marching for or where they are going. Are they freedom fighters or revolutionaries? Maybe it’s an exercise class? I don’t know, but I know they are there and have had my back all along as this thing has gathered steam and rolls on.
THE RIPPLE
12″ x 24″ Mixed Media on PVC
L’effet d’ondulation est un terme qui est utilisé décrire une situation où, comme les ondulations jamais grandissantes à travers l’eau quand un objet est tombé dans lui, un effet d’un état initial peut être suivi en dehors cumulatifement. I thought that this looked nicer in French. Here is the translation.
PLAID COW
16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas
We were driving cross-country and were in the middle of no where and saw it. There it was standing in a field all alone and away from the others. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There is no way this is real. How the… what the… Have you ever heard of this before? No! One of us googled it, plaid cow, but there was nothing. There was nothing online about it, there was nobody around to ask. There was just the strange cow all alone in the field.
PLANT N SEED
24″ x 36″ Mixed Media on Foam Board
The chicken or the egg? The Plant or the seed? In Buddhism, Hinduism, as well as other Dharmic religions, there is the belief of the wheel of time which regards time as cyclical and with repeating ages. Their idea of time gives a different answer to the question of “who is first.” The concept of eternal return, which indicates that there is repetition of time. The assumption is that time is eternally repetitive, and therefore, there is no “first” in eternity; there is no creation. The answer then becomes: neither the egg/seed nor the chicken/plant is first. There is no “first” in a cyclical view of time. Chicken or the Egg
mijumi TRIP T
Mixed Media on Fabric
If you’ve seen some of the photos on the site then you might recognize this shirt. It is my original painting t-shirt from when the project began back in January. Well, it has now been retired and immortalized on the front of another shirt. Hand stitched by mijumi himself. Don’t ask me to hem your pants though.
CYLINDRIP
24″ x 24″ Mixed Media Sculpture
This one was a little experiment with the cardboard tubes and paint. I wanted to see how the tubes would stick and if the paint was going to seep through the cracks at all. Yes and no. So, now that I know, I can make another one and get crazier with the paints. I’m startin’ to like these sculpture/paint pieces.
RADIATING BEAUTY (SOLD)
12″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Omega Bond
When I see you the world stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There’s nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The world just stops and it is a beautiful place and there is only you. Just you, and my eyes staring at you. – James Frey, A Million Little Pieces