A Place of First Permission
Triptych - Oil on Canvas 48” x 36”
Based on a Kyoto garden. Entitled in honor of a Robert Duncan poem, "Often I am permitted to return to a Meadow".
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Leaves, Arrive
Oil on Canvas approximately 20” x 16”
A seminal, recurring experience: looking up through tree leaves to see the sky.
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Leaves, Arrive Two
Diptych - Oil on Canvas approximately 16” x 36”
Well Tempered Clavier 2.20
Triptych - Acrylic on Canvas 36” x 36”
I fell in love with Rogier van der Weyden’s c. 1435 Descent from The Cross. Passages are quoted in this. Title references Bach’s 2nd book of the Well Tempered Clavier. Its 20th section in A Minor is full of descending scales.
Was shown at LA’s Colburn School, in a Studio Eleven Exhibit - August 2021 - June 2022.
Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves
(thanks to Mary Oliver)
Triptych - Acrylic on Canvas 36” x 36”
Theoretical physicist Neil Turok talks about ‘the astonishing simplicity of everything’. Another reference: Mary Oliver’s poem, Wild Geese, “Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you . . . over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”