Home Paintings in Oil and Wax Pastel and Watercolor Drawings Playa Paintings Earlier Paintings Artist Info

These small, abstract, mixed media works are contemplations on the hexagrams of the ancient Chinese oracle, the I Ching, or Book of Changes. They are not meant to be graphic interpretations of the hexagrams, but rather, I use the readings of the oracle as take-off points for my imagination. And do the same rules of chance apply to the throw of the sticks or coins and the making of some of the marks on the paintings? The drawn forms refer to landscape, the mysterious shapes of doorways of cliff dwellings in the American southwest, and aerial views of the ruins. The geometric shapes are pointers to astronomical bodies, navigational devices or abstract descriptions of mythic events. The collages are constructed from silk screened papers and watercolor fragments, sometimes with foil, metallic markers, graphite, oil pastel, colored pencil or other materials. The paintings are in oil and wax on paper.