Tuesday, July 23, 2013



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Saturday, July 20, 2013



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Thursday, July 18, 2013



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Wednesday, July 17, 2013


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Tuesday, July 16, 2013



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Monday, July 15, 2013



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Sunday, July 14, 2013



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Friday, July 5, 2013

Horror Vacui




Framed print number 01 Horror Vacui series 450.00. Unframed signed Giclee print 150.00 only 9 available. Grafica gallery Webster Groves.



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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Bi-polar mind (00023)


Obsessive thought of 
Christmas and coupons
Body processes and notes
Politics and losing hair
Watches and bits of string
Lost lingerie and sweeping
Cat food and pillows too soft
Strange noises and sets of keys
Bushes and dying  banana trees

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Monday, July 1, 2013

New Series

Finished number number 19 of the "Horror Vacui" series...one more to go. (posted on the studio wall) Each pieces is 18"X24". The medium is Sharpie permanent markers on cold press bristol paper. Giclee prints of number one in the series are now available. The prints are on Somerset Velvet paper.(archival paper and pigment) in signed editions of ten (10). The price of the print is 150.00...originals are 500.00. If you would like a print or an original, contact me or the Grafica Fine Art Gallery in Webster Groves Mo. If you would like to have your print framed, Grafica Gallery provides outstanding frame and print service. I will offer prints of the entire series (20) based on interest. I will post a picture of number 01 as soon as I receive a jpeg from the printer.






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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Symbolic tale (00057)



Circles, squares, triangles in a myriad of forms tell the symbolic tale of intimate encounters with the purpose of existence  defined by the ever changing meanings from cultures long forgotten and clothed in mysteries that defy meaning and understanding.






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Monday, June 10, 2013


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Questions (00018)

Do wistful wheels spin in grease?  Do open minds flourish in haste?  Does the bird eat a snake from the lake? Can a man relate to a plate of hate? Are clouds of grey openly gay? Are martyrs always filleted?



Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Synchronicity 2:20


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“Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.” Carl Jung

Friday, May 31, 2013


“If we seek genuine psychological understanding of the human being of our own time, we must know his spiritual history absolutely. We cannot reduce him to mere biological data, since he is not by nature merely biological, but is a product also of spiritual presuppositions.” – -Carl Jung from a presentation at the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich, KĂĽsnacht, 15 Nov 1953

Reciting my lines on the stage of life



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Art matters. Art instructs. Art heals. Art takes us on a journey and we are changed! 

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Symbolic poetry (0011)

Rain insane 
banal question 
protĂ©gĂ© proton 
glimpse jittery 
juvenile flash
apparition disjointed 
paradox reason
messianic tomato
Cro-Magnon lesions

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Friday, April 26, 2013


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"Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Tales of a Wayside Inn'


Thursday, April 25, 2013

I just don't get it.


Recently, I have been fielding question about my art from from residents of the independent living center where I reside. One of the most common questions relate to where I get my ideas and occasionally someone will mention that that my work “look like” some known artist. Those questions are usually veiled attempts to suggest that my work may not be original. A particularly difficult question or response is always some form of “ I just don't get it” or I like pictures of things I recognize.” These ego related questions are the most annoying. The questions and opinions are not new, I have been asked the same questions and heard the same opinions from students, family members and friends for over sixty years.

Originality is a ghost and one could question philosophically whether originality really exists. What really matters is our personal approach to art and the way in which we express our experiences and influences on a canvas; that is the high point of art and art criticism; anything else is a moot point and ego driven drivel.



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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Organic undergrowth


boscage, boskage, brake, brush
brushwood, bush,coppice, copse, 
thicket, understory, underwood


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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Horror Vacui





Horror vacui art is an art form that expands on Aristotle's theory of horror vacui (that nature abhors a vacuum, and therefore empty space will always try to fill itself with a gas or liquid to avoid being empty) and includes visual interpretations in artwork.

Horror vacui artwork involves the artist leaving no piece of the canvas uncovered. There is a fear of empty space in the works of any horror vacui art, and so artists will cover every inch of their canvas in detail to avoid leaving any remnants of blank space.

 Horror vacui art had been practiced by ancient Greek and Islamic artists, and was even evident among the many indigenous tribes of Central and South America. However, with regards to the term horror vacui, this is credited to 20th century author, scholar, and critic Mario Praz. Mario used the term to help describe the suffocating atmosphere created by Victorian Age interior design. 





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Monday, April 8, 2013




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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” 
― Albert Camus