When the Songs, 60x36”, Ink on paper

A Messy Sort of Devotion (Crow), 60x36”, Ink on paper

Blood and Feathers, 60x36”, Ink and cut paper

Devotion, 15x11”, mixed media

The First Time I Carried, 9 x 9”, Ink on paper

Glimpse, 10 x 7”, Watercolor, ink and collage on paper

I Am Honey, 60x36”, Ink on paper

Shaman, 60x36”, Ink on paper

Bow, 24x24”, Ink on paper

Mientras III (Sapphire), 40x30”, Ink and graphite on paper

Mientras II (Meanwhile II), 40x30”, Ink on paper

God of Hidden Manifest, 32x32”, Ink on paper

Just As You Can, 12x25”, Ink on paper

Untitled 1 (Shadows), 24 x 18”, Ink on paper

Untitled 2 (Shadows), 24 x 18”, Ink on paper

Untitled 3 (Shadows), 24 x 18”, Ink on paper

Untitled 4 (Shadows), 24 x 18”, Ink on paper

Untitled 5 (Shadows), 24 x 18”, Ink on paper

Untitled 6 (Shadows), 24 x 18”, Ink on paper

Jaguar Slips into Text, 18 x 11”, Ink and collage on paper

Jaguar Scribe, 24 x 13”, Ink on paper

To a lover, 18 x 16”, Ink and collage on paper

Lost Found Wandering, 6 x 6”, Ink on paper

I am you in negating I am you in yes I am you, 11x9”, Ink on paper

Mientras (Crow), 11 x 9”, Ink on paper

Spellbound, 11 x 9”, Ink on paper

Boots, 11 x 9”, Ink on paper

Untitled (Shaman), 12 x 12”, Ink on paper

Untitled (Jaguar), 15 x 11”, Ink on paper

Nectar, 17 x 11”, Ink on paper

Untitled (Presence), 17 x 11”, Ink on paper

I will keep walking till I find the space to fly, 17 x 11”, Ink on paper

Untitled (Turning), 17 x 11”, Ink on paper

Untitled, 12x5”, Ink on paper

Hive of the Honey Tree, 15x6”, Ink on paper

Untitled, 12x5”, Ink on paper

Mientras, 12 x 5”, Ink on paper

Yes, 4 x 6”, Ink on paper

Offering, 8 x 5”, Ink on paper

Mientras I (Meanwhile), 40x30”, Ink on paper

Stalking Sentient Text and Restless Forms
2018

I have been profoundly changed during this last year of making art in my studio. I never set out to draw crows or jaguars. I started with what was curious, alive, and present for me. I started with the two images below. Neither of these images are in my own personal cultural history, and yet they are charged for me. I am pulled and electrified by them. They are ideas that are life puzzles - life batteries that drive me out of bed and pull me out of complacency to make things I’ve never seen before, to stalk ideas again and again that trace the morphing forms. I’ve made over 500 pieces of art this year, only 40 of which are in this show. And still if I tap into the imagery that has arisen over the year, of a jungle dense with whispered stories, or jaguar coming to sip at the river of our beingness, I will jump up and make more. So these images are not just of a jaguar and a crow and a tree.... they are living paths of my creative process. They are dynamic maps to the unknown.

Griffin eating a palmette, Neo-Assyrian period, 7-8thc bce, Legion of Honor, SF and Omolu, Brazilian Candomble

Stalking Sentient Text and Restless Forms2018

Stalking Sentient Text and Restless Forms
2018