landscapes

Maybe there are too many landscape pieces out there, and each one is pretty much the same usually: the artist is impressed by the beauty and majesty of a scene and so they represent it in an art piece, often showing as little human disturbance as possible. I guess the idea is often the allure of the primitive in nature- going back to the roots of humanity, when humans supposedly lived in harmony with the world. For a long time I have tried to show the exact opposite: how humans have impacted and changed the earth, this is a major focus of mine within landscape archaeology as well. However, here is a small pen-ink landscape that pretty much is just inspired by the amazing landscape of the strange sandstone hoodoos and slot canyons surrounding Dixon, NM.

wayyy too long in coming....

The commissioned batik I started back in May...wow my practice really got interrupted when I left the big apple...but it seems to be for the better anyways. It seems that I can't make things unless I'm in the right mood, inspired in the right ways. A very intuitive matter.

This version of it is the entire bed sheet sized. I think it's the final version...next step is crayons.

New art/New Mexico

just doodling on some paper bags- recycle stuff!

possible luminaria? thank you D. Martin for the inspiration!