Image of the Day: It is time to let go...

Letting Go
Mixed Media
4"x 5"

Transformation: Alchemy Series
Pretty much all my Art is about transformation, but this is from a series that I did art around the science of Alchemy, and my own personal transformation. I was courageously confronting/addressing one of my personal demons through art. It was formalized in an amazing class taught by Mary Webster that I took at JFK in Arts and Consciousness during my M.F.A. program. I grew substantial in my own Art and within myself during that quarter. The art that I created is a marker of my experience.
The piece is a mixed media piece with acrylic paint, dead leaves, and the figure I got in Caba San Lucas Mexico,from a vendor on the street, who was selling the amazing and potent art of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). She did sadly say that this art form was dying, because of the youth were traveling to the cities and buying into American Culture. I combined each medium to create a composition that honored my internal demon and my ancestors. As I now know "it" has been passed unconsiously down from generation to generation.

For me during that powerful class I think I manifested my stuff that I wanted to heal via art, but I do not think I ever let go of my personal demon and today it is time to let go. After over four years of intensive Jungian Therapy.....

I am transforming my WV- I, you , me, and you again are so brave and courageous to be in this world. We all have brave hearts. Now it is time to take care of our Mama EARTH and THE amazing beings the exist with in. And so it is...

Here is good resource if you wish research and engage in Alchemy. Alchemy
& The Philosopher's Stone or take the class with Mary Webster at JFK in Berkeley it will change your life and you ART!!

Discovery SoCal's ART

I am hoping to launch my art career down in SoCal ASAP. I have been doing some research about which galleries to apply to. Today I went to the Bergamot Station., which is an interesting space with over fifty galleries.

Also at the Bergamot Station there is the Santa Monica Musuem of Art or SMMOA. There exhibit was phenomenal it was called Combustine: Alberto Burri and America. The Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915–1995) was at the forefront of postwar avant-gardism. His work and level of automatic experimentation was inspiring. He used common materials like garbage bags, dirt, cloth, and plastic wrap. In some of the work he actually burned it with a torch. The texture and energy of this work was truly transformational. Check out this deep and delightful exhibtion if you are in town.

LA's ARTwalk???
OK I am new to the area did I miss something??


Last Thursday night I ventured out into LA's Art walk. I do realize that it was cancelled and then resurrected for this second Thursday of the month.

I had high expectations for this ART walk as I had read a couple great articles about this event. My boyfriend said it was art for the masses. There was masses of people on the streets-bands and DJ;s were everywhere. It was quite a scene. Kind of like a neighborhood festival, not an ART walk. I do have to say that the court of Food Trucks was amazing! But the galleries I saw were just pop up galleries with a low level of professionalism. T-shirt sales seemed like a common fare. I thought to my self where is the ART??
I hope to discover it next month.

#5 Collecting Random Interactions with the other Series

"happiness is not all, people have a responsibility."
幸福不是一切，人還有責任 translation, A comment left on my Blog from someone in China.




"Can you please take our picture with us and Gwen, the old Dog." two old men having coffee with an old dog in the lake merrit area. It is always such a surprise when folks ask me something on the street.
they thanked me and I had to run....


Time Pics of Pollen Tree Shrine,five days after with my cat Paulo.

Earth Art in Creel Mexico, Spring Equinox 2008, Planes, trains, taxis, and ...

This was a beautiful trip and art adventure. We took many modes of transportation to get to our destination. We left the Bay Area on March 20, 2008 taking mass transit BART to SFO and took a plane to El Paso,Texas. We changed planes in Salt Lake City it was magical as we boarded the small craft to view the snow covered mountains with the sun and the moon in the sky. We then arrived in El Paso and took a cab across the border to Juarez, Mexico. There we hopped on a bus to Chihuhua, Mexico for six hour bus ride into the heart of Mexico. In Chihuhua we hopped on the famous train called El Chepa, which would take us into the copper canyon. We decided to take the local train as that would be more interesting, than the tourist train, which was filled with elderly, white middle class Americans.
We sat next to a beautiful Raramuri family. The Raramuri are the indigenous whose home is in the Copper Canyon. (more on them later). We got off the train in Creel and then rented bikes and rode into the Canyon, where I created this earth art.


Trickster dog, checking out my art. All of sudden I look up and this dog has been watching me create for sometime.


Raramuri women, creating in the distance from my own work. The English word for this area was Mushrooms and Frogs as the monoliths resembled them.



Beautiful ancient Raramuri basket weaver. She reminded me of the tree.


Down the road from my Earth Art was an old mission. There was a beautiful child there. I love the aesthetic of the Raramuri's.. the amazing colors that they wear. Walking Art...Art is life! More later on this project.