Earthly Creatures
Original artwork on canvas
Active Surrender
24”w x 30”h
Canvas mixed media
Within the immersive wildness of Nature I created loose forms that were of no particular representation, other than in this series larger combining shapes of both the butterfly wings and other forms like floral petal sections or plant leaves or rocks, stems, anything that drew my eyes randomly. Then I created my own imaginative nature creature. This one is an elastic one that continually reforms itself, surrendering to a new shape becoming whatever to survive.
Interbeing
30’ w x 24”h
Canvas mixed media
Experimenting with pushing a more completed form yet feels very compliant and open not closed or fully contained.
Thinking about the notion of the subatomic particles energies, flowing with the universe, intervening with it, always connecting and adjusting mind, body, spirit.
Considering the oneness of things.
A Spectacle
24”w x 30”h
Canvas mixed media
Wrapping forms around the butterfly I drew expressing its interconnectedness to the other forms in nature I found, without them it cannot survive. An expression of how the creature looks interacting with petals and wind and other shapes forming from different angles around it. Things can’t exist in a vacuum solitary without interaction. There is a wonderful performance in nature.
Wavy Energy
36” w x 36”h
Canvas mixed media
Apparently our brains could be an incomplete mirroring of the cosmos. Panpsychism is the view that all things have a mind or mind like quality. I wonder if in the universe since I am imagining these creatures if they are mirroring somewhere else in the cosmos?
Reality Reconfiguring
24”w x 30” h
Canvas mixed media
Might we find that everything we believe in to be true today will all be changed? If we look back on history it is true that overtime things are not what they seem. Isn’t our imagination the best thing we have to bring forth questions we don’t yet have answers to?
"What you encounter, recognize or discover, depe3nds on a large degree to the quality of your approach." J. O'Donohue.
All in All
24” w x 30”h
Canvas mixed media
Overlapping and finding repetition in the forms and yet some spaces are emitting something or disappearing.
The ephemeral nature of life.
Forces and Interaction
30” w x 20” h
Canvas mixed media
Change is certain and can be so gradual that you don’t even realize it’s happening. It’s the only thing we can truly be certain of in life. There’s a beauty to how it can unfold.