And Then What….?
The last Hungry Eye was written over 6 months ago on April 2, 2020. Since/during the world has pressed in with a siege of wordy engines, the sound of sirens and helicopters & a smoked-out sky drifted in from the west coast. It has also fallen away as I continue to live in a mostly isolated state. The threads of communication take on theatrical significance even as they are diminished in their lack of corporeal presence. As the anxiety heightens & singes my adrenal highways the paintings fall out of my hands like fairy gifts. One after another they almost paint themselves.
There has been a suffusion of pink in many of the pictures and a release of restraint. Doodle Beach Island, that wonderful land of imagination, has become a great influence, spreading its charms & inclusiveness over the geography of this abode.
Morales & Wolff is from a dream sent to me by my deceased friend Robert Morales
Morales & Wolff
2021 24 X 33 oil on wood
Little Mia is myself on the beach as a child
Little Mia
2021 16 X 20 oil on linen
Valentine from Doodle Beach is a victorian-inspired, crazed, lacy scribble from Doodle Beach Island
Valentine from Doodle Beach
2021 24 X 33 oil on wood
Pink/Tree is an amalgamation of a dream an an actual place
Pink/Tree
2021 36 X 48 oil on panel
Shiva in the Forest is Shiva’s dance deep in the green, reflected
Shiva in the Forest
2021 18 X 24 oil on panel
Upon reading The King of Elfland’s Daughter my son suggested I paint the receding of Elfland from the known world…thus
Leaving
2020 24 X 36 oil on panel
and then, of course, I wanted to paint Elfland flooding back in
Returning
2021 33 1/2 X 41 oil on metal blackboard with painted frame
Juan Diego is from the story of Guadalupe. Here he is revealing the miracle of roses in his tilma
Juan Diego
2021 18 X 24 oil on panel
Runaway is inexplicable &, at least to me, inevitable given my fascination with water and falling down buildingsIt’s now November.
Runaway
2021 48 X 48 oil on panel
it also ended up being on the cover of Chip’s book
and then underwater in the kelp forest with the drifting scent/memory of some lovely creature
Kelp
2021 36 X 48 (2 panels) oil on panel
Maybe next time I’ll include all the paper paintings that happened along with these.
Hope all are surviving & somehow finding beauty in the universe.