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Centaurs in Diamonds, Beauties with Hooves, Jungle Spirits from my sketchbook

My Altar

An installation from my Freak Show show in 2004.

Gimme Space!

Astronomy pic of the day was a huge inspiration for some early work i did out of college. It was a phase of everything outer space. ...... Here is an image of an oil on canvas from that series. They ranged from 4 to 6 feet in width and about 3 to 4 feet high. I wanted these to be some kind of "universal flags". the idea, needless to say, didnt fly. ahem. They are still rolled up in my studio.

Paint with Swatch

I didnt have any paint at the time, so i went to Walmart in the middle of Virginia countryside and took all the pa int swatches they had. There were two that went together but i dont have a bigger image of the red piece. The two sold at a Montserrat College of Art Auction.

Cave Painting

Im interested in the primeval sexual and sometimes violent aspect to some of the images i find in Old Mas Carnival photos...even though they are visions of beauty. Looking at images of a Carnival form any year, one can see there is an ancient history which melts though the shallow plastic surface of the "modern mas"