Category: 1999

“Round Pile” 1999

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Sumi ink on paper, 24” x 30”. Unknown location. One of many treepiles.  I began doing these when I moved from DC (near Chinatown) to Berryville about 3/4 hrs outside of Washington.  At that time our little town was too far away to serve as a commuter village because of the distance.  They had begun […]

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“Queequeg and Moby” 1999

.Reading time 1 minute.

Oil & gilding on byõbu, 14” x 36”. Collection of Sarah Cohen. i was always fascinated by Queequeg. He filled the bill for what men once called a noble savage.  With his tattooed face he seemed more like Moby than like his fellow sailors.  He was really much more part of nature and more kin […]

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“Stewart’s Sticks” 1999

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Collaged newspaper, ink dyed news print, acrylic medium and chalk line on canvas, 103” x 288”.  Collection of the artist. Working  In The Grid Freedom through discipline. I encountered this concept in my studies of Japan and Japanese writing Kanji– but in military school I had already learned of it 1st hand. It certainly did […]

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“Vortex 2” 1999

.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Charcoal, conte crayon, and collage.  72″ x 60″.  Collection of Patrice and Herb Miller. The choice to use a vortex was inspired by DuChamp’s “Large Glass” and the idea within the zietgeist of the “The Event Horizon”,  and how that subject is brought home to Planet Earth today in the familiar form of global warming.  […]

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