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JELLY JAM
Jelly Jam is a bas-relief painting combining realism and abstraction with hidden triggers that will engage your imagination. The composition and colors have a powerful musical quality using the repetition of rhythms through out the element arrangements. This keeps your eye continually revolving and lost in the waters of the deep. No matter where you stand in the room you will find that the materials draw you into the picture plane. To draw you in I painted with ultramarine broken glass with white and clear molded glass that first catch your eye. Even at night with little or no light. Yes, even with a black light. You can then engage with the kinetic rhythm patterns of this underwater world.
LOCOMOTIVE DOG
I did a lot of research by going to Roanoke, Virginia and photographing one of the last steam locomotives ever built the 611. The American beagle is symbolic of the real life story of Hachiko. A JAPANESE COLLEGE PROFESSOR WOULD WALK TO THE TRAIN STATION EVERY DAY WITH HIS DOG AND RETURN BACK TO THE SAME TRAIN STATION IN THE EVENING ALWAYS TO FIND THE DOG WAITING FOR HIM. HOWEVER, ONE DAY HE DID NOT RETURN EVER AGAIN BECAUSE OF A CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE AT WORK THAT KILLED HIM. HACHIKO WAITED EVERY DAY THE REST OF HIS LIFE FOR THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR TO RETURN. Today stands a bronze statue of both of them at the train same train station commemorating faithfulness and love. I created this painting to commemorate faithfulness and love.
WAITING
Waiting is a painting with the same subject and story line as Locomotive Dog. . The dark sadness in the painting "Waiting" made me cry too much when I looked at it, so I destroyed it. However, locomotive dog is still available for purchase.