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This is a photo of Oyster Mushrooms that I purchased for immediate consumption, but I realized pretty quickly that they are also very surreal and photogenic when lit, and so I went to my studio first before the kitchen!
Photo taken with iPhone SE, October, 2024.

Works on Paper

Conte crayon on paper. 

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YOU ARE THE SON

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colored pencil drawing

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Painting

A representation of how Jesus gave man the key to the world. So the world is ours to do as he as commended us.

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Mixed Media

SDED-XXXVI (Mi-Re-La)
Acrylic on canvas over plywood, and five 1.13mm silver plated acoustic guitar strings,
31.25 x 20 x .75 in (79 x 51 x 2 cm)
Well, spending time among musicians and their instruments awakens a certain challenge that is hard to ignore: can I make a painting be a musical instrument or a musical instrument a painting? I understand there are boundaries that are impossible to cross but, if anything, the artist is the right person to try crossing... the impossible!
The entire piece was built around a well thought out system that will keep in place five guitar strings mounted on the canvas to be the visual armature that hold together the entire painting. Two windows are moving the strings and their canvas support in and out the main plain, landing a minimalist right color balance hard to discount. In true musical fashion, three yellow dots in the upper plain (suggesting musical notes) should read (in solfège): "Mi-Re-La." I am not sure how much of a string instrument this piece is (considering that it was never meant to be one!) but it certainly makes a delicious, happy painting that it only promises to produce sounds (if cornered!). A perfect new (sound) dimension added to the 2-D, 3-D piece.
This SDED-XXXVI piece uses the same indispensable elements to make a 2-D to 3-D transition believable: optical illusions, real objects, relevant chromatic contrasts.

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Painting

Photography

The Great White Egret has a wingspan of 5 feet or more. I caught this one flying over Bodega Bay late in the day so the wing was backlit and reflected in the calm water. The black and white enhances the calm of the image.

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Photography

March Madness Marching Band peformance

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little taste to show you all how i've improved over time.
A stream and building part of the old tile works building in bucks county pa

Works on Paper

Charcoal on paper. 11x14.

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Photography

A bee gathering pollen

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Painting

Acrylic on canvas
16x24

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This photo is a rose and it reminds me of a Georgia O'Keefe painting.

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Photography

Photography

Dog at the window/Inspirational

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Charcoal drawing of The Honorable Samuel N. Nuckles, SC House of Representatives Member from 1868-1872 (My Great-Great-Great-Grandfather) by Toya Bonita Wallace. Included within the background of the drawing is the Adinkra Symbol, Nyame Dua (God's Presence and Protection).

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Longer title:  
"Mon enfant, ma soeur,
Songe à la douceur
D'aller là-bas vivre ensemble!
Aimer à loisir,
Aimer et mourir
Au pays qui te ressemble!
Les soleils mouillés
De ces ciels brouillés
Pour mon esprit ont les charmes
Si mystérieux
De tes traîtres yeux,
Brillant à travers leurs larmes.
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Des meubles luisants,
Polis par les ans,
Décoreraient notre chambre;
Les plus rares fleurs
Mêlant leurs odeurs
Aux vagues senteurs de l'ambre,
Les riches plafonds,
Les miroirs profonds,
La splendeur orientale,
Tout y parlerait
À l'âme en secret
Sa douce langue natale.
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Vois sur ces canaux
Dormir ces vaisseaux
Dont l'humeur est vagabonde;
C'est pour assouvir
Ton moindre désir
Qu'ils viennent du bout du monde.
— Les soleils couchants
Revêtent les champs,
Les canaux, la ville entière,
D'hyacinthe et d'or;
Le monde s'endort
Dans une chaude lumière.
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté."
— Charles Baudelaire

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