This drawing was inspired by the flowers of the island of Madiera and the flowers depicted in a 3rd century AD mosaic tile of the God Oceanus that once graced the floor of a flourishing commercial enterprise in the Roman port city of Ossonoba. The flowers on the island were in a streaming supply. Every…
I saw a grand tree in Auroville, India in February, 2017. The tree was wide and deeply hung to the earth, but also split open with its womb and breath vessels twisted and exposed. Inspired by the photograph I took, which showed off its naked soul, I did a drawing and as the drawing evolved,…
This drawing is part of my series titled “PowerWomen: Sensually strong and Strongly sensual.”
This drawing is part of my series titled “Women: Beautiful and Powerful at One with Nature.” In this drawing the bird woman looks wistfully back on different selves and the different parts of selves that come together to tell a journey.
I heard the Attorney General’s decision of Cuomo’s transgressions toward women, documented as unwanted kisses; and/or groping their breasts and/or manhandling their buttocks and/or otherwise acting as if he had the unfettered right to touch his female employees where he pleased when he pleased. I started a drawing about a powerful woman, unbreakable and strong,…
Since March, just about when we were at the anniversary date of living with a pandemic for a year, I began drawing women in cramped spaces. In one series, she is lounging on a daybed. The daybed is based on one located in the Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is dated…
