Category: Sanctuarys

“Sanctuary in Green Field” 1990

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Intaglio & gilding on pulp painted paper, 23” x 28”. Unknown location. Another pulp painted print done at Pyramid Atlantic – a collaboration with master paper maker Helen Frederick.

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“Sanctuary, After Giotto” 1993

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Lithograph, 40” x 32” (worked & printed at RCIP).  Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking  is the place to go if you want to work in a non-traditional manner whereby you can make it up as you go.  My guru for this project was the Tamarind Masterprinter Eileen Foti.   I have some lithographic knowledge myself […]

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“Sanctuary and Pyramid Scroll” 1987

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Graphite on paper, 72” x 48”. Artist’s collection. The idea for this drawing was in part inspired by a selfie taken by my sister-in-law Susan Hughes.  She took it while climbing Manchu Picchu. She passed a pyramid constructed  of 2” x 2”s and roofing tin (used by American hippies as meditation huts.  In the photo […]

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“Prairie Cyclops” 1992

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Mixed media, 18” x 10” x 8”. Artist’s collection. In Iowa I would occasionally visit someone’s farm buildings. They always gave me the creeps.  Something sinister about all the things hidden in a hay loft.  Ropes, chains, hooks, pitch forks lurking in the darkness.  I always imagined a lynching ….. or being trampled by a […]

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“Monument to Sarajevo” 1993

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Mixed media, 32” x 35”. Artist’s collection The pictures of the siege of Sarajevo looked like Dresden.  I used newspaper to collage up a sanctuary likeness.  To me it felt like silence.

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“Kami and Sanctuary” 1990”

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Graphite on paper, 30” x 42”. Collection of Jay & Sarah Piccone Nakashima Perhaps I was looking a lot at Picasso (which of course I always do).  The head on the right comes from two of my favorite sources.  Hitotsu/me/kozo (the one/eyed/boy with a hunchback) is often pictured sweeping the grounds of a Zen temple. […]

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“Blue Sanctuary” 1990

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Intaglio on handmade paper, 22” x 30”. Artist’s collection. In 1989 & 1990 Helen Frederick kindly offered me a kind of residency at Pyramid Atlantic Center for Paper, Print and the Book.  Every Thursday night my Assistant Takako Nagai & I would go to Tacoma Park to work on prints.  I did this intaglio called […]

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