ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
Weightlessness, loss, beauty, life transitions--Body Myths. This series is about the seen and the unseen, visual components of metaphor and fictional events performed by the characters in the paintings. Human interactions are essentially performances designed to make an impression on whoever is listening or watching. It is through such performances that the persona or social identity is developed. These paintings are performances. Vivid colors, twisted bodies. Attempts to make a visual impression that will linger. The imagery in the work is intended to take the viewer on a visual journey. The twists and turns of representational and abstract styles become metaphors of time and space for significant turning points in life. Much like the devices used by the screen writer to develop and drive the story to its conclusion, these plot points take you to existential voids. Or not. Meaning is the mystery, the enigma to be solved. "The mask, in time, becomes the face itself." In the end all that is left is the Mask.

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Adios, Amigos	Adrian As A Little Girl	After The Bath	After The Deluge Number 2	Anatomical Myth
Arizona	Artist In Residence	Atomic Clown	Baghdad, Oklahoma	Beauty, Inc.
Between Shadow And Reality	Blind Faith	Blood Is Thicker Than Water	Butterfly	Circus Of Desire
Classical Western	Country Zen	Dance Lesson	Danielle	Divorce Painting
Don't Touch My Cat	Don't Touch The Camels	Drama 2	Face Of Another	Fairy Tale
Fallen Zero	Fascists	Fathers And Sons	Flight Of Expression	Frank
Gail	Gary	Grandfather Clause	I-35	I-40 Paradise
Icon	Indian Myth #1	Jody's Got The Camptown Races Doo-Dah	Kayna	Kitchen Heat
L	Lawton 1946	Lawton Part 2	Leap Of Faith	Lin
Lonely Are The Brave, Lonely Are The Highways	Love And Loss Are The Same #1	Love And Loss Are The Same #2	Manifest Destiny	Marriage
Mexico	Mime Twins	Night Fall	Night Light	Night Ride
No Title	Nocturnal Considerations	Nostalgia	Oklahoma By The Sea Part 2	Panhandle Theater
Plato's Cave	Plot Point 1	Plot Point 2	Plot Point 3	Plot Point 4
Plot Point 5	Plot Point 6	Plot Point 9	Plot Point 10	Post
Remembrance	Self Portrait As A Little Boy	Self Portrait In A Wheatfield	Self Portrait With Blood	Self Portrait With Nude
Soap Opera With A Happy Ending	Subterranean Dreams	Summer 1975	That Old Black Magic	The Invisible Man
The Poet	The Standoff	The Swimmer	The Telephone Rings Twice	Thinking About Hiroshima
Thoughts Of Freedom	Three John Does In Oklahoma City	Three O'Clock In The Afternoon	Translation	Tribal
Trojan Horse	Twins From New Mexico	Uninvited Guest	Urban Anthology	Urban Primitive
Western Fascism	Western Kuros	Which Are You Drinking	White Light	Zero Gravity 1
Zero Gravity 2	Zero Gravity 3	Zero Gravity 4