Cow Skull Mosaic, Life size
The skull is actually Oklahoma
mongo, having come from a dumpster in Stillwater, which I've covered with
Staten Island beach glass, beach ceramic shards, Manhatten schist, mica,
pyrite and copper pyrite, sea shells, studio trash, used kiln cones, and a
couple of emeralds. A work in progress, it's taken years to get this far.
Road Kill - 15" x 15" x 16"- A suitcase full of items found on road dead: batteries, car parts, glass, keys, rusty metal, earrings, a dog (?) skull.
Daddy's Dresser - 7" x 7" x7"- An homage to my father, and to fathers everywhere. Some of this was my father's, some was my stepfather's, and some items are merely symbolic of the two. May they rest in peace.
Blue Lagoon, 9" x 9" Oil on wood.
My first attempt with oils.
Easter Sunday, 6" x 9" Oil on canvas.
I think oils are more fun than acrylics.
'66 Rothko Chevy, 30" x 50" Acrylic on Canvas
It took me a long time to see what was going on with Rothko. I am still trying to understand what I see, and what made him think like that.
Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960, 24" x 30" Acrylic on canvas
This painting, as well as the song by Brian Eno that inspired it, are named after the once thriving sea-port of Dunwich, England, which eroded into the sea over a timespan of three-hundred years.
Lafayette Gardens I - 9" x 9"- Detritus unearthed while digging a
garden: wire, bottle caps, button, pencil sharpener, taillight plastic, valve stem cap.
Lafayette, Colorado.
Lafayette Gardens II - 9" x 9"- More Garden gleanings: pop top, beer and pop bottle glass, plate shards, metal bits.
Lafayette, Colorado.
Lafayette Gardens III - 19" x 12"- More items from Lafayette's past, unearthed while digging the garden.
Staten Island Mongo II - 9" x 9"- Lavender beach glass, dating to World war I.
Staten Island North Shore.
Staten Island Mongo I - 9" x 9"- Beach glass and ceramic shards.
North Shore, Staten Island.
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