META: Book IX

page 98

When the axe came to the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

(lino cut)

page 99


Songlines.


(collage, acrylic and ink)

META: Book IX

page 100
The Down Beats.
(collage, ink and acrylic)

" No obsession can justify its existence except by perpetual and repeated self-affirmation."
-Simone de Beauvoir

page 101
The poetics of invisibility.
(collage, ink and acrylic)

" Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you're never quite on the beat. Sometimes you're ahead and sometimes behind. Instead of the swift and imperceptible flowing of time, you are aware of its nodes, those points where time stands still or from which it leaps ahead. And you slip into the breaks and look around."

-Ralph Ellison

META: Book IX

page 96 and page 97
Flying Dutchman.
(collage, ink and china marker)

META:Book IX

Book IX
page 95
The Dreaming.
(collage, lino cut, gold leaf, acrylic, ink and marker)

META:Book VIII

page 94
...but every queen is a handmaiden of death
(collage, acrylic, ink, lino cut and marker)

This is the last page of Book VIII.

META: Book VIII

page 91(above)
The Ritual.
(collage, gold leaf, acrylic, color pencil, marker and ink)

page 92(above)
In the beginning...
(collage, acrylic and ink)

page 93(above)
To be born.
(collage, acrylic, color pencil, marker and ink)

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

Work in progress: Condoleezza & Hillary

Killer Bitches: a feminist project

Killer Bitches is a series of oil paintings that I started in December 2009. It is reported that 1 out of 6 serial killers is female. As a society we overlook the woman as a killer. We assume that when women kill that it comes from an emotional place or perhaps the woman was battered and it was self defense. Frequently postpartum depression or hormonal imbalances are considered the cause of why women kill. What we as a society often forget or dismiss is that women can and do kill for the same reasons men do. We forget that women are equally capable of anything a man can do.

The Countess Elizabeth Bathory.
Oil on wood
approx. 3 ft. x 2 ft.

Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614) is one of the most prolific female serial killers of all time.

After her husband's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and young women, with one witness attributing to them over 600 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80.^[1] Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted. In 1610, however, she was imprisoned in the Csejte Castle, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later.

Later writings about the case have led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins in order to retain her youth and subsequently also to comparisons with Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia, on whom the fictional Count Dracula is partly based, and to modern nicknames of the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula.

Work in progress: Killers of the State

Killers of the State.
(oil on masonite board)

I started this painting of Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton Sunday, July 11th. This is my second painting of Condoleezza and my first of Hillary. As of now I'm working on the under painting which tends to take me a while with oil paint. I'm mostly focused on temperature and tonal values at this stage. It just so happens that I fell into a red, white and blue color scheme.
The first Condoleezza Rice portrait is below.

In Conde We Trust. (acrylic and collage on board)
2005.

Artist, Robbie Conal told me the collage was unnecessary. Robbie Conal was wrong. If you read the text (I encourage you to do so) then you see how very necessary it is. We often skim over or over look the truth. Our leaders rely on our mental laziness to achieve many of their corrupt goals.
Wake up and read between the lines.

META: Book VI

page 76 (above)
Learn to swim
(collage, crayon, ink and marker)

page 77 (below)
We are mostly water
(collage, ink and acrylic)

This is the end of Book VI.

META: Book VI

page 73

Our Father.
(collage, acrylic and ink)

page 74.
I Am Ready for the Fall.
(collage, ink, acrylic and marker)

page 75.
There is more to Eden.
(collage, acrylic and ink)

META: Book VI

page 71...

page 71 (interior).

Refuge. (collage, ink, marker and gesso)

page 72.
A Path with no Heart.
(collage, acrylic and ink)

META : Book VI

page 69. I Am Not From Your Tribe.
(collage, acrylic, ink and lino block)

page 70. Native Tongue.
(collage, ink and color pencil)

page 71. Every Road. Every Path.
(collage, acrylic, ink and folded paper)