"Just start," Rasmussen said gently. "Art can be anything."

Diverse group embraces open offer to create art

Empathy!!

We are all connected!

The Art of Destruction

Life as an intuitive painter is always about creation and destruction. Sometimes you can go to far, but in the process it always seems to come back. It is really all about letting go. After many acts of creation, destruction, and recreation in my cyclic painting process-at some point and after some great reflection-I can look at the little vibrant creation and say your are done. It is time for you to go our into the world. Or if I love it so much it will stay in my collection.

Below is great example of the process. One thing to remember is I never have an outcome in my mind. I never plan out a piece or follow a formula. But, through a lot staring or gazing and great reflection, I tend to learn a lot from my paintings. It triggers something internal and metaphysical for me.

Here is the first layer of this painting..... it just did not feel right.
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Second and third layer, I started playing with pigment sticks. Kind of cool...
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Today, I decided that I did like the marks. I used molding paste. Some green and black colors.
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I think this is its third incarnation of this canvas and it is still not done transforming! It will dry and tomorrow I will stare it and then as always it will tell me what do. Some of works are layered with twenty individual paintings.

#8 collecting random interactions

"All you need to do is get a steady job, buy house, and a have family that is life." "That is all it is about."

guy talking to his friends outside a brew pub, Berkeley,CA

"Here Kitty, kitty." Homeless man at the Albany Bulb park in Albany, CA--seriously there were no cats in sight.....

"I love you like Jesus. I love you unconditionally. You just have a problem because you do not except my love." "What problem?"
Two elderly man arguing outside Peets Coffee in Berkeley.

Mayan Tree Shrine

Tulum Mexico is a Pre-Columbian walled city located on the Caribbean coast in Quintana Roo, Mexico.This is such a mystical and amazing place! It is paradise. We stayed at "Cabana Copal" in a quaint grass hut with a sand floor, literally steps away from the ocean. Outside our magical hut on the beach where we had nightly visits by an Iguana, that is were I created my tree Shrine.
Tulum
While creating this tree shrine my creative process seemed kind of fragile from my near arrest in Point Reyes, National Park,CA from creating the same art. From this state of being I choose the safe palm trees outside our hut to revere. For me the experience was kind of flat and filled with fear of being caught. I let the fear of being caught run the gamete. I actually destroyed the shrine quickly and made one from leaves and stones. But in reflection on an internal and metaphysical level I had an amazing experience.



This is a powerful and sacred place and I look forward to going back very soon and creating some amazing reverent art in paradise!

Communion

This photograph is a view that I took as I gazed down the Devils Throat at the Uguazu Falls in Argentina. What a mystical experience