to the Quiet Stars
Exploring past artworks and timeline to find the themes in the Quiet Stars.
Duende, the Bull 1995
The challenge of becoming an artist emerged itself as my first series of paintings. A metaphor of the battle within, spirited by the sounds of flamenco and aesthetics of duende, my bullfight action paintings paved the way via scholarships to escape poverty in rural Virginia bringing back to my native California to attend the California College of Arts and Crafts. There I would study abstract cinema and painting, created films and the thread paintings.
Knossos 1999
4 miles of thread “Knossos”. Deconstructing the painting canvas to thread. Reconstructed thread as Labyrinth. Minimalist, calming yet optically activating. Mindful practice. Wrapping the clew. Walking the labyrinth. See artworks in The Quiet Stars.
India. Flamenco. Community Arts. Village Auroville India 2002.
Studies in philosophy and wisdom systems help to inform my work. Working in Community Arts, creating jobs and grants for artists to work with communities towards real world needs, and running a SF Flamenco web magazine, while maintaining a studio practice, 2000-2011.
Fields of the Sun, 167 Icarus Survives.
Abstracting film photography, the Sun and landscapes. The Sun Never Sets, 3 Meta-Landscapes and Visual Ambient Drones, 2015 acquired by the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Modern Art and “Boundless” group exhibition 2016-2017.
Desert Canyon Road, Transcendental Road 2023
Fancy stuff and motorcylces..
Icarus Survives. 2019
“It gets colder when you go higher.” Retelling the myth of Icarus, a visual narrative of abstract film photograph and prose.
Asphalt Abstracted Ad Astra
A return to painting, the printed photographic image of the road, homage from my mother’s resting place and a new series of art.
