DECember-- 12/12/12/ happy birthday MAC

December; constantly astounded by the rate of time.  A new painting on the theme.  Next week, the playa- it is like taking a breath and recognizing you are fully alive- and appreciating that fact; flirting with immortality til it gets boring.  OK I am appreciating friends - especially those who continue to support my art- and of course family who continually make the dream-team.  Holiday gratitude-- or corbieres.  Vino Verite.-- this first pic was 5 months ago; seems like five years. the bird is now, though not good photo.  happy holidays

gift of the crow

now it's birds, maybe freedom, maybe because i read the gifts of the crows and gained an understanding of another realm of depth, and despite that there might be a large war soon, the Arab Spring might try to bring about an Israeli fall; but there is this other sense of time, maybe it is winter when in the now frozen in some speck of time, where only the now matters and there in the birds eye in the calm of the eye of a tornado in the I.  i.  i paint bIrds.

and something in progress

inspired by a recent visit to Frida's house; I am going to use a real blue house paint chip and make a star later--- putting some real things in paintings gives them at least a little real value!

The final version of the elephant painting; the figure is juggling real coins

Cuba

was amazing pics and words to follow

Jose Marti-  A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

this year

This year, there have been more loved ones being born, married and celebrating accomplishments of every dream thread- and during the same time -more loved ones died and still more others began confronting their ends.... i don't know what the hell it means but my paintings are full of elephants as I continue exploring the theme to live above the line:  In paint but in life too-