Dancing with MIL FLORES

The series, ‘Dancing with Mil Flores’ started with photograms of honeybees and wax comb. They evolved into multi-layered paper, pigment and cloth pieces that are inspired by the bee dance.  I was immersed in the magically real world of a Gabriela Garcia Marquez novel with Mil Flores as the beautiful woman, the Muse, the animating force. How many thousands of flowers to make a tablespoon of honey I do not remember. Dancing cannot be measured or understood by ratios and comparisons, only by experience. Maybe dancing with flowers is the taste of honey.

The Garden Series

The garden paintings were inspired by Japanese ‘Ehon’-picture books ( I recommend EHON:The Artist and the Book in Japan). The Chinese and Japanese art historic foundation in the animated landscape speaks to my own sense of place here in the southwest high-desert. I regard these paintings as book covers for stories composed over the time it takes to paint them.  The weather, the news, the thoughts, and the music that influenced them are embedded in layers of paint.

Writing Implements/OMG Woodblock prints

Marshall McLuhan- in Understanding Media,-The extensions of Man,1964, predicted that as we move from mechanical time into accelerated electronic/digital time, aspects of life would start moving so fast that all of the linear style specialization suited to mechanics ––think assembly line – would break down and the result would be a return to a more tribal way of living.  We are no longer specialists- just humans working from the ground up in a fiber-optic simultaneous sensory world. 

Elephirls

She appeared in a painting in 2006. She is part of a tribe that travels the Garden turning garbage, negativity, cruelty, anything that keeps us from peace, into plants. Guardian transformers who are growing in numbers.