Life Line:  (Fall 1999)

Life Line (with a string).  Oil on linen. 56 x 80 inches. Fall 1999.

Oh yes it is very

sexual

red and black, a bleeding

red

the string is like a tampon

every month she cries

every month she washes her

face with birth blood

the string plays a song

of void, a silent mass

a black song never to be sung

sometimes she gives up

and collapses 

sits down on her bum with

her knees towards her chin, one

could say that she sits in a lazy             

inadequate fetal position, but I

would never say that. The rain 

drops from the shower head

fall

blood washes out of her, dilutes 

and the cells dilate across the white 

porcelain bath tube floor

and migrate towards the drain.

                                            (written Fall 1999)

The Stone. Oil on linen. 56 x 80 inches. Fall 1999.

This painting was inspired by the book 'Notes from Underground'  written by the great Russian novelist  Fyodor  Dostoyevsky.

The raw application of the white paint is an attempt to capture the intensity I read in this novel. The organic blue form submerged in the white represents: an egg, a birth, a stone, a tear, something submerged in an embryonic ocean. 

Home By the Sea. oil on linen. 20 x 28 inches. Oct - March 2001

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an organic form

cocoon

life waiting to rise

to the top of the surface

drift wood

left on the beach

as the tide withdraws

the moon

the blue night sky

a man walking in the rain

a puddle

a rain drop

nothing

nothing

nothing matters anymore.

(writtenWinter 2001)