STAND IN LOVE
6″ x 36″ Mixed Media on Wood
Stand in love, don’t fall. Don’t let negative evolve. Stand in love, be strong. Listen to the heart’s song. Stand in love by me. We can do anything. Stand in love hand in hand. Walk side by side through this land. Stand in love, don’t fall. Nothing too big, nothing too small. Stand in love with me forever and we will have it all.
THE EXCHANGE
11″ x 13″ Mixed Media on Acrylic
“This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind…let it be something good.”
Author: Unknown
GIVING
18″ x 30″ Mixed Media on Board
She keeps giving you the sun, the moon, the rain, the stars. What she gets is plastic garbage, used up resources and scars. She gives seeds for food, water and clean air. In return for slaughtered forests, gasoline and people that don’t care. Mountains, beaches, oceans and lakes. She gives and gives and we just take. TVs, computers, cars and phones. Lights are on, but no one’s home. Processed foods with no nutrients. Get a burger for a few cents. Obese children stare at screens while others starve finding ways and means. She’s given so much for us to use. Not for us to just abuse. Be conscious of what you do. Karma is real, it will… get you.
OUT AT THE PARTY
12″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Omega Bond
Remember doing absolutely nothing on the weekends? Remember the parties? Remember Super Bowl at John and Maxine’s? Remember Powder Hollow? Remember Nelson’s, Almeida’s and Larusso’s? Remember paying for 7-Eleven nachos with stolen change? Remember the Chevette? Remember the smoke and listening to ATLiens all the way through? Remember Zima? Remember buying 40’s at Worthington Street when you were 15? Remember when the trash can got stuck under Zaccaro’s Mustang? Remember running from the cops? Remember the days? Remember…?
MY CAGE
12″ x 12″ Mixed Media on Board
In a cage under heavy protection you beat. Over and over again. With the pain of my thoughts you beat. Over and over again. With the fear behind my smiles you beat. With the excitement of my anticipations. With the happiness of my love you beat. In my cage… in my skin. Over and over again. Playing the internal baseline of my life. Taking on all emotion with no worries. You are the only one I’ve got and I wouldn’t trade you for another.
PEACE
18″ Mixed Media on Wood
All we are saying, is give peace a chance. Put up your signs and put up your hands. If Lennon were here would it all be the same? If Lennon were here would we be so insane? All he was saying was give peace a chance. Bombing our brothers was not in his plans. The words that he chanted were give peace a chance. Give peace… a chance. All we are saying is give peace a chance. If you give it a chance you might start a trend. Keep this thing movin’ and don’t let it end. The movement is needed and needed right now. Give peace a chance, give it right… now.
LOVE
12″ x 12″ Mixed Media on Board
I love you in the morning when you wake me up so early… sun. I love you when I’m tired and the day has not begun… coffee. I love you when you’re blue and feel so far away… sky. I love you when I’m searching or seeing something new… eyes. I love you when your crazy and crashing into me… ocean. I love you when we’re dancing and moving all around… motion. I love you yesterday, now and tomorrow… life. I love you more than anything that’s ever come my way… wife. I Love… You.
THE SWEETEST THING
12″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Wood
Standing quiet in nightmares haunting without sound. Words fall upon deaf ears, words fall to the ground… shatter. Pieces picked up, but never fit back together right. Open wounds on hearts fill buckets that get flushed down drains. Always were the sweetest thing. Sweetest thing leaves sweetest pain. Night flashes tap brain… waves. Wake up, it’s just the rain. Like tears, like puddles, like fears, like floods… evaporate with you into forever. Always were… the sweetest thing.
CASSETTES
18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Canvas
Remember cassettes? Turn it back with a pencil and throw it in the tape deck. My first cassette was Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet. I was wanted dead or alive and my Walkman was strapped to my side. Bel Biv Devoe up through my headphones. Poison as can be I controlled the show. Want to hear the last song on side two? Stop, eject, flip it over and let it fast forward through. Let it fast forward. Forward. Forward. Forward into CD’s and MP3’s. Your playlists come up for you to see. No rewinding, no waiting, no going back to the way it used to be. No going back to the way it used to be. No going back to…
SAIL AWAY
11″ x 15″ Mixed Media on Canvas
At times my day dreams get the best of me and I drift away to this internal reality. Walking around on a tropical beach wearing shorts and a tank-top, feel the sand beneath my feet. Exploring a place that is new to me. Right turn here, left turn there, where should we stop to eat? New town, new city, new faces and people to meet. Snap a picture with new friends to save the memory. Sail away, sail away in my dreams with me. Sail away, sail away to a new reality…
OUT OF CONTROL
12″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Wood
Some days we’re spinning, spinning… out of control. Feels like there’s no winning, winning… no letting go. Day turns to night turns to day turns to night. Go to bed, wake up again, again… get ready for the fight. Don’t want this nine to five no more, but times are getting tight. Just want to stay home and make, make… art for the rest of life. But it keeps spinning, spinning… out of control. It keeps spinning, spinning… no letting go.
DON’T WORRY
24″ x 36″ Mixed Media on Wood
When life gets me down I put it on and play it loud… Don’t Worry. When my niece gets nervous, to calm her down she sings your song to lose her frown… Don’t Worry. When my brother is bummed cause the sun is not out, he puts it on and clears the clouds… Don’t Worry. If you are feeling sad, if you’ve got the blues, just put it on and he’ll sing to you… Don’t worry, about a thing. Cause every little thing, is gonna be alright…
~ Three Little Birds, Bob Marley & The Wailers
A huge thanks goes out to Christian Gallego for letting me “steal” his idea. His Bob Marley caricature is the inspiration behind my painting. You can see his caricature and more of his art at: http://christiangallego.blogspot.com/p/2d-characters.html
Thank you again so much!!!
FEELING YOU
18″ x 18″ Mixed Media on Wood
From this world to the next your spirit will live on. Just because you are not here does not mean you’re gone. Your laugh, your smile, your humor and your heart are forever burned into our minds. People that you’ve touched in this life know you’re one of a kind. We will cry, we will mourn, we will ask for reasons why. We will share stories and remember, we’ll be feeling you inside. Good times that we’ve shared will carry us through the days of pain. Forever shine your light down upon us until we meet again.
HEART
18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Oak Tag
Give it to the one you love. Give it to a friend. Give it to someone in need. Give it till the end. Give it to your brothers and sisters too. Give it to the people who won’t give it back to you. Love is all we need. Love will set us free. Love is what I’ll give you. Please give it back to me.
PRETTY WHEN YOU SMOKE
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
See you on the corner, just came off the bus. Usually pass right by without making a fuss. Something in the way the smoke swirls around your face could change the whole feeling of this place. Or maybe it’s the way you talk ending sentences with laughter. Or maybe it’s a mystery that will be solved after. Not really sure at all, it seems like it’s a joke. But there’s something that makes you pretty when you smoke.