META: Book VIII

page 88(above)
Mother Mary.
(collage, ink, marker and acrylic)

page 89 (above)
Before the fall.
(collage, acrylic, ink and marker)

page 90 (above)
Queenship.
(collage, ink, acrylic and marker)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bees

META: Book VII

page 83(above)
You must go through this.
(collage, acrylic, ink & graphite)


page 84 & 85
The awareness of death...
(collage, acrylic, ink & graphite)

page 86 (left)
Undo...

page 87 (right)
This dying star.
(collage, thread, acrylic, ink & graphite)

META: Book VII

page 81(above)
Prism perfect
(collage, acrylic, ink and crayon)

page 82 (below)
Trust me
(collage, acrylic, ink and marker)

META: Book VII

page 78(above)
Darker my love
(collage, acrylic, color pencil, marker and ink)

page 79(below)
Queen of borrowed light
(collage, gesso, ink and marker)

page 80 (above)
Some call it pride
(collage, acrylic, crayon and ink)

Works in Progress: Punk & Politics

The Ladies Love Cool James.
oil on canvas.
This is a portrait in progress of Iggy Pop. I get a love buzz when I paint James Osterberg.

Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton work in progress.

Work in progress: Killers of the State

Condoleezza Rice's earring is a skull and cross bones. I'm painting an American flag pin on her jacket. Hillary Clinton's visible earring is the world.
Condoleezza Rice's exploits are common knowledge and much discussed, but Hillary Clinton's greatest crimes seem to be her marriage to former president Bill Clinton and that she's a woman. These women are helping and have helped to expand the American frontier and both have aided in the stripping of our civil liberties. Hillary Clinton voted for the Patriot Act in 2001 and it's renewal in 2006. Her political tactics and choices receive less attention. Let's judge these civil servants based on their politics and not their personal lives or gender.

Work in progress: The Ladies Love Cool James...

" The Ladies Love Cool James "
oil on canvas
15 in. x 30 in.

This is part of the "PyschoPop" series that as of now includes portraits of David Bowie, Nancy Spungen and Lou Reed.
I'm still in the under painting stage with this one. These paintings are portraits of pop culture icons that defied gender roles and were pivotal to the punk music scene. Disco mystics, Dum Dum Boys and Space Oddities.

(left to right)
Miss Nancy if You're Nasty.
Oil on canvas paper

PyschoPop!
oil on wood

Hot Tramp, I Love you so.
Oil on board

The portrait of Lou Reed can be viewed at http://www.myspace.com/milacharleston