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…?
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.
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
EDDIE AIKAU
24″ x 36″ Mixed Media Metal
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…
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 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 IS BACKWARDS
18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Paper
Life can be backwards at times. Bad things happen to good people. People who are trying to live within the rules of the systems that have been established to “help” them. Just when things are going great…POW!… a set back. The rich get richer and just want more. People go hungry, but our grocery stores throw out food everyday. People buy purses and jeans that cost hundreds of dollars, yet can’t seem to find some change to help someone down on their luck. There are wars for peace. Try to be good. Try to help out where and when you can. We are all here together. The human family.
LIFE JELLIES
16″ x 22″ Mixed Media on Canvas
Some of us just float around in this world like a bunch of jelly fish in the ocean. Going with the flow. Following the currents. Staying current in a world that is forever changing around us. Until one day when something stumbles upon us. It bumps into us. Crashes. Disturbs. BZZZZ. Bring a sting that no one will forget. A sting, a poem, a verse, a painting, a picture, a song, an idea, a dream, a revolution… a… Time to stop floating… Don’t be forgotten…
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.
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?
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
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?