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Fragments 5 Finitti and 6 Begun …

It’s been since March since I blogged … hopefully you all will forgive my silence. I’m sure you will. Alas. I haven’t painted since May, but I did finish Fragments 5 above. As of yet, several new paintings in the … Continue reading

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March Update

Is it Spring or is it not? Who can really say one way or the other? with waves of warmer temperatures in blocks of four or five days? Who even knows what to wear? Ha. Not me. Layers and scarves … Continue reading

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Fragments 4: Progress

I thought and studied the blank canvas before me for a very long time before sketching. I then returned to my sketchpad, making a tiny sketch, which became this large one, above. To me it represents a helpless, tortured figure, … Continue reading

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Fragments 2 – Weaving Color

On Sunday I painted with the next to tiniest round brush, in black, then in lime. Perhaps you can see the fine lines and “code”? Also this painting has a lot of detail work that is not unlike the weaving … Continue reading

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Fragments 2 – First Layer – Dark Heart Spaces

Now my heart is only as dark as the yin and the yang complement each other in lightness and darkness and the glass is half full. Of water. And trying to figure out the inside of me is like trying … Continue reading

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Fragments I – Process II – Pizza Dough Recipe

I’ve continued to paint, first in the charcoal regions, which to me represent my depressive states. ARgh. Such as they are. Below my belly, in my head. That black area remains gripping my torso. The soft areas for some time … Continue reading

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Fragments I – Process

In the past week, I have slowly been processing and writing about the new series Fragments. I am thinking, How can I express the pain of my Dissociative Identity Disorder, the horrible acts of abuse that made me split in … Continue reading

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Viet-Nam War 9 – Process – Darkness and Light

This is a much clearer foot of the head of the cloud, and this afternoon I have painted the base of the cloud with a glazed Mars Black, a Cadmium Red streak splitting with the “atom” in the center of … Continue reading

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Viet-Nam War IX: Hell on Earth/War

This is no Lotus Flower this Hell on Earth … this state of perpetual warring … however, some war is necessary? I do not know for how long. I believe in a United Nations. I believe in International Human Rights … Continue reading

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Viet-Nam War VIII Process … Jungle Code

Above you can see the lyrical kind of art deco garden or landscape, ? wrought iron pattern I initially layered with, that was replaced with a very drapey, jungley, camouflagey … bivouac … ey … feel. Which I then carefully … Continue reading

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