Artwork Portfolios > Golden State: 2019-Present

These works are about the mythology, written into the California landscape.
Interactions of memory, history, myth with land, sun, mountain and valley; water and fire, the human mind; elemental things.  There are both loneliness and grandeur in the vast open spaces out here on of the very edge of the West, my Golden State, a Land of Dreams...
(Perhaps, hallucinations...) It is, all at once: a Place, a Story, a Stage, a State of Mind, a Myth, a Dream, a Geography of the Mind...a Setting for the Soul....Native State....Migrants, all.
Riding and driving in cars on her highways, or walking, through her mountains and hills and plains and deserts and along her beaches since as long as I can remember; in the ocean (teeth chattering, obsessed with feeling that power, finding it in myself...the endlessness...)
This land has always felt vast and empty and, at the same time, crowded with people and their spirits...so many stories on the wind, giving a sense of being possessed, and yet never, ever, quite understanding, what we’re all doing here...
There is something aggressive in the grandeur of this place, a certain violence and abandonment in the beauty of uplifted and broken ranges that march jaggedly into the sea, or wide limitless pine forests, or the over-grazed windswept, voluptuous hills that speak of Spanish conquests, a disrupted Eden, ancient legacies entwined...a Great Central Valley...a Super Volcano you can see from two hundred miles away...in the flux of decades spent in wanderings and artventures, I’ve meditated deeply on the dreams of this land, and it's people(s)...they are frenzied, acquisitive dreams, California dreams. Wave after wave of people risking everything for the acquisition of gold, glory, souls, slaves, fame, land, love, enlightenment....these paintings and mixed media pieces were made as an attempt to convey the living beauty of this place...