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eDDie WouLD Go

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EDDIE AIKAU

24″ x 36″ Mixed Media Metal

Eddie Aikau (May 4, 1946-March 17, 1978)

There are surf stars and there are surf stars. Some become great. A few become heroes. Most fade into obscurity. Every now and then, a surfer comes along who transcends the desires, dreams and expectations of others. And his very life becomes a myth. Eddie Aikau is one. Perhaps because he embodies the twin themes — the stoke and the tragedy — of Hawaiians, the people who gave surfing to the world and took so little in return.   click for more…

THeRe WaS NoTHiNG

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IN THE BEGINNING

18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Paper

 

 

What was it like before highways?  Before drive through food lines?  Before money?  How did we go from living off the land to living on the couch?  Where are all of our gardens?  Our outdoor fun?  Why are some people’s phones more important than their personalities?  Where are we headed?  Is it the right direction?  What was the world like in the beginning?  What were we before all of this?

BuiLDiNG uP

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TUBULAR

Mixed Media Sculpture

Blank canvas – check.  Paint – check.  Cardboard tubes – check.  Dip tube into paint and apply – che… NOT THIS TIME.  I wanted to make a wave painting again, but I wanted it to be different this time.  I wanted the wave to look like it was building up.  But I didn’t want it to just be paint this time.  So, I cut the tubes and put them down in a way to make it look like the wave was coming.  Then I did the paint work.  This is my first sculpture in this year long project so you have to give me a little break.

LiFe DaY 7

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LIFE METAL

10″ x 15″ Mixed Media on Metal

 

 

This week has been a good one.  I’m very happy with the way the LIFE logo art has come out.  The show in Manchester was great.  There was a ton of interest in the Peacock painting at the event and there’s only a few more weeks until the halfway point.  I was asked by someone at the event this week, – so how is life ?  I thought for a second, – my life? my life is great.  I could see that it made him happy to see me happy.  I just met him that day, but I could tell he was genuinely happy to hear that.  There are plenty of reasons to get down on yourself at times, but there are so many more reasons to enjoy your life.  You just have to find them.

LiFe DaY 6

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LIFE FLOWERS

36″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Canvas

 

 

We grow.  We learn.  We evolve.  Our surroundings build us up.  People influence us from every direction.  Maybe one day in the art museum with mom and dad a three year old child sees a painting and is captivated by it.  The child doesn’t know it at the time, but that painting will affect the course of the rest of their life.  He/she just has this love for art that is rooted deep inside.  They need to paint.  To create.  To express.  The world needs to see it.  They have to have it and no one really knows why, but they know something good when they see it.  It must be theirs.  It must be…

LiFe DaY 3

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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 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…

LaNDiNG HeRe

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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.

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…

CRaYouLa

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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.

THe NeW SCHooL

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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.