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XXII

2022

Acrylic and glitter on wood

XXII Lines

Old paper, new linework

watercolor and gouache on paper

12x18 inches

xxii

2022

acrylic, glitter, etc. on panel

dimensions variable

XXI

2021

acrylic, glitter, housepaint, etc., on wood

dimensions variable

xxi work on paper

watercolor and gouache on paper

xxi paint

2021

acrylic, glitter, house paint on panel

dimensions variable

xx

2020

gouache on Fabriano black paper

20x20 cm

xx pandemic

quarantine explorations

watercolor, graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper

a body made of paint

“…what they reach for and what ultimately touches them is not experience, not the here and now, not what’s there but the radiance, the echo, the memory- call it the distortion, deflection, deferral- of experience.” Andre Aciman

acrylic, glitter, house paint, craft paint, sundries on panel

meditations xvii

20x20 cm gouache on Fabriano black paper

paint as memory

When does paint become a painting, and how does a painting evoke memory?

"The substantial polyvocity of being usually obliges us to make an effort to give form to the formless. The poet emulates being by reproposing its viscosity; he tries to reconstruct the formless original, to persuade us to recon with being." -Eco

xiii

2013

watercolor and gouache on paper

9x12 inches

xvi lines

2016

made in LA

watercolor, coffee, tea, gold leaf, gouache on paper

9x12 inches

Alameda

chlorine, Santa Cruz, and unconditional love

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xx pandemic

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a body made of paint

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meditations xvii

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paint as memory

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xvi lines

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Alameda

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