Sending you all my gratitude and love for this new month and this New Moon day, falling in Scorpio, and on the festival of lights, Diwali! I am sharing my new moon table here: I have 2
"medicine...
This is not a good photo of this painting with the glare on the left side, and it was sold in my 2019 solo show and the owner sent me a DM IG photo of it on the wall, and those sometimes disappear ...
2021-10-09 23:29:20 +0000 UTC View Post
As I just mentioned in the immediate preceding post : )
2021-10-06 21:06:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This afternoon, a lovely gentleman is coming over to model for a painting; meanwhile I am still working on this one above. The stars in particular will take me a while to make come alive. It ...
2021-10-06 21:02:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Full Moon! Happy coming Autumnal Equinox! I felt like reading you a short poem.
Much Love!
2021-09-20 23:53:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This painting is slow going and will hopefully have stars around it within the week, like the pen & ink I turned in for the book on Thursday. This coming Monday I have to start work on the edit...
2021-09-11 19:09:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I ended up sending 16 of the 20 images the night before the Sept 1st deadline and the publisher was so excited by what she saw that she fully understood that I would need more time to darken some o...
2021-09-03 17:41:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Last Tuesday near dawn in a Mountain View Air BnB, I experienced what would best be described as a kundalini awakening. Hours before, maybe 9ish, 10ish at night, I was drawing this Tree of Life for...
2021-08-30 18:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Everyone!
I'm just midway on the book images, as of this moment. I'm attaching Nurse Jesus with a Fish (not really its title, ha) and Eye Chakra goddess surrounded by Star Anise (also n...
2021-08-19 23:19:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I added images backwards, but #3's character is given Agrimony across his chest and the Kongo cosmogram at his throat.
#2's character has a bird on her sleeve (the bird's head inside her coll...
2021-08-09 21:14:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This may not be entirely finished, but it's the first one complete enough for me to move on to the next image. I had planned to include the insides of the characters (organs such as the lungs, inte...
2021-08-06 18:30:47 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the audio of a short story I wrote for 7X7la, professionally recorded. Enjoy!
2021-07-29 23:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The images in the book will be black and white, with exception of the cover, but while drawing this little boy I realized I will get into creating cosmos in the pen and ink pieces, as well as symbo...
2021-07-20 21:26:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday I went to the house to bring here to my temp home publications of Frida Kahlo and Egon Schiele sketchbooks/diaries to add to my Da Vinci inspiration (the framed Vitruvian Man, who happene...
2021-07-14 18:19:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This short piece was written less than 2 months ago with the title Cathedral of Trees, changed to Sun in My Heart Blood in My Shadow and back again.
Enjoy! Happy Sunday! LOVE
2021-07-11 18:11:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing with the drawings for the "Benefits" book and will be recording a couple of the stories I've written lately so I can connect with you through video.
Hope you had a beautiful holida...
2021-07-05 23:26:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday, July 1st, I realized if I'm going to turn in 20 images for the book (with the working title we can shorten to "Benefits") by September 1st I'd better do at least a sketch a day in July, ...
2021-07-02 22:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The painting above is hanging in the Queer Communion exhibit at ICA LA-- Ron Athey's retrospective show up through September 5th. It is on loan from the curator Amelia Joans and her husband, artist...
2021-06-23 00:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is some progress on the T-shirt, where I added to the design, in black ink, and cut the seem of the sleeves and sewed one layer of the edges in black, below that layer is blue, and under the a...
2021-06-14 21:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I realized only until just photographing the beginning process that last night I sewed the shred of my antique Aum silk scarf upside down on the T-shirt, so that it is a rather selfish view. Every ...
2021-06-12 20:31:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I just want to thank you for continuing this journey with me. I appreciate you deeply. The house I have been renting for the past 7 years has mold and seems to be the manifestation of my feelings o...
2021-06-03 00:24:22 +0000 UTC View Post
In an IG story a friend posted a photo of me and our mutual friend in memoriam of his death some years ago, but the photo(s) were taken at a past solo show, where you could see me and our mutual fr...
2021-05-26 01:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I was never a hard candy person, but this painting came to mind when thinking of childhood joys as an adult, like this piece, which is now in a private collection. I was watching a bit of some movi...
2021-05-23 02:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Everyone! Here is the reading of a short story I just turned in to a magazine that is published in Mexico. The story will appear both in Spanish and in the original English version. I w...
2021-05-20 04:28:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is "Laura on Wilshire Blvd." still in progress due to the adding of a tree and the tireless work on her glasses and eyes. I attached "Spike" (with sunflowers, in a private collection), "Greg &...
2021-05-14 18:55:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Also from a private collection, I thought I would post this piece which illustrates the current dicotomy I feel between ecstatic highs and emotional lows due to my longtime lack of discipline for m...
2021-05-11 00:48:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I watched a documentary on the return of a Nazi-era stolen Egon Schiele painting called "Wally"-- and I'm not sure if I watched it before, though the extraordinary story involving MOMA, NPR, ...
2021-05-11 00:39:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Please excuse the mistakes in my reading, as this entry was written at 2am on the Full Pink Moon, and I haven't watched the video yet myself, since I don't want to trip on the mistakes. Also, I sho...
2021-05-02 23:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Since the link to this podcast was recently changed I am reposting the correct link here.
I really enjoyed this conversation, hope you do too!
2021-04-28 23:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
My title is a little cheeky because I started this drawing after dinner in front of the television, some show on historic British castles, and then I finished the drawing while on hold to cancel my...
2021-04-20 01:04:58 +0000 UTC View Post