Paintings 1 through 4 are the first four of a nine-painting series. The series, “We are Our ancestors” is the common human origin, and the expansion into life stories, dramas, and karmas. The series explore stories with a cultural tie, but universal in the message, which remind us, as a surrealist solgan, that shows things we don’t like, understand, agree or believe, and the path to expansion, acceptance, equality and fraternity.
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The Universal Fountain
Oil on gesso canvas, 36″ x 48″
The Universal Fountain is the first in a series of nine where the goal was to have the paintings present the maternal fountain as the source for birth and rest in the afterlife. The face is of a Polynesian Queen, thinned for artistic purposes, but intended to honor a rich culture with its unique story of creation. All paintings in the series loosely use elements form global origin stories to honor the comprehension of that all people begin this journey through the woumb of a mother. The Universal fountain begins at a point in time traveling along the spiritual arch condensing to bring human fraternal consciousness.
The Ladder
Oil on light gesso canvas, 48″ x 54″
The Ladder (of Knowledge) is the second in the series. It descends to link humans to the cross or the burdens in life, and it ascends on the shoulders of The One to ask on the path to illuminate consciousness.
Universal Fountain and The Ladder of Knowledge were painted as a diptych. The point of the foot of the Goddess in the Universal Fountain is the continuation of the highest point in the God pantheon explored in Ladder of Knowledge. This purposefullly throws a wrench in the father sky, mother earth relationship as the two paintings represent that all creation comes from The Mother, with The Father providing the seed.
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Hero
Oil on gesso canvas, 48″ x 48″
Hero is the third of nine in the series, but it was conceptualized after the forth (see Sawubona.) Hero units The Father and Mother as one on earth as the seed for life’s complex labyrinths. Hero has an occult story that reflects the super human coming to the rescue. It is a story of how and Who to ask for help.
Within the pantheons of global belief systems the hero appears with supernatural abilities as a savior. My thought was to introduce this idea later in the series, however this Hero reminds us that the seed of the supernatural experience exists within all humans, present in the germination, and always accessible.
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Sawubona
Oil on gesso canvas, 48″ x 36″
I (we) see you. I and (we) my ancestors see you.
The response is: Yebo Sawubona, I (we) see you, if you and your ancestors see me. In seeing each other, we acknowledge each other in this moment.
We acknowledge seeing each other (and our ancestors) in our histories. We acknowledge our responsibility to assist each other in what we need to be free now, in the past and future. I am a painting, yet I see you and you see me. My story is from people who used the oral tradition, and lived honoring nature. The word Sawubona is Zulu and it has the same basic meaning as Namaste. Now that we see each other in our full past and present stories, how do we help each other regain our sovereignty?
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Fatima
Oil on special canvas preparation 24x27
Fatima - child of a Brazilian playboy and Spanish actress, was the assignment painting given during my stay in Majorca, Spain, embracing and expanding reality. For example, the distant land over her left shoulder was as close as the other, however surrealism is a universal reality any human can experience.
Fatima was a friend and lover who came like a temptress during a difficult personal time. And to honor the assignment I wanted to play with the temptress being as fluid as the sea, as dry as a dessert, as hot as fire, or a grayscale rag on a tray, in a room behind closed doors.
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Self-Portrait
Oil on special canvas preparation 24x12
After Spain, I had to train in the new flemish glazing technique, and starting on the rooftop overlooking the UCLA campus, and with limited space I preped a small canvas and set looking in a mirror beginning a self-portrait. I decided to paint the story of a personal tragedy.
Pulling on my Christian roots I introduce the two voices in the battle between good and evil, and the temptress from the painting Fatima. In this way, the painting tells the universal story of choices and consequences. The worst choice can be very appealing and the best one filled with heartache and pain. With no way of distinguishing one from the other, the consequence it what is left to harvest.
Berimbau (Self-Portrait)
Oil of special canvas preparation 26″ x 23″
This self-portrait began in Malibu, Ca., and it represented the graduation from the apprenticeship.
The special canvas preparation permits greater oil absorption, highlighting the pigments which brings the subject matter to greater life, and the Flemish glazing technique combines to prevent cracking, which makes their paintings have greater archival significance.