Morning light
Light is always changing and it does not care if you do not notice it. This photo was taken on Friday, August 15th at 6:48 AM from my side of the bed.
Sueño y realidad: el perreo sana(Work in progress)
Ink and acrylic on paper
5.5” x 8.5”
Thinking about all the women who migrate for the wellbeing of their families. The pressure to protect, to save, to sacar adelante. También necesitan bailar, sudar, let loose. Connect with their bodies in a pleasurable way, lose themselves in the music. Be a mami no solo mamá. Mamá, mamá, mamá. ¡Madres!
healing pool
Gouache and graphite on paper
12” x 16”, 2021
For me, making landscape paintings is always about finding and describing an emotional setting through imagination. I believe feeling is a form of thinking-they are not opposed and often not even two different things. Creating these places, whether they are based on “reality” or not, is very much an experience of thought and feeling as one.
catch of the day
Oil and string on wood
3’ x 5’ (approx.), 2001
This painting started my decade-long obsession with mermaids as subject matter in my 20s. I came across the splintered wood near a dumpster in the sculpture department at RISD. The composition built itself around the knot hole that became her right nipple. A quarter of a century later, I still love her color, the fold of her belly, the expression of her hands and face.
