offerings

I wonder where the beautiful unusual pieces of drift wood come from that I search for every summer at Seawald Beach? Most likely it comes from trees that have fallen into the two rivers that border this long beach; the tide and especially storms tumble the wood as it makes its way into the Atlantic and washes up into the tidal pools. I want to keep it simple by "offering" them back into the world. The wood is saturated, for longevity and beauty, with pure beeswax, encaustic and pigment.

offering ten 2023

8"x10"x7" irreg // $300

*offering seven 2019

7"x4.3"x4.5" irreg. // $150

offering nine 2022

11"x3.5"x4"irreg. // $150

artifact thirteen 2019

6"Hx6"Wx22"L irreg. // $100

*offering eight 2022

4"x12"x51/2" irreg. // $200

Pulse Cafe, June 12, 2016

On this day I was driving to Maine for my annual 2-week art camp when I got a call from my daughter Marina in tears --- she told me there had been a mass shooting in a LGBTQ nightclub and 49 people were dead, and many wounded.

I spent the two weeks working on the beginning of this piece -- an alter to the 49 lives of the individuals out for a night of dancing. The candleabra is of the black pottery of Mexico -- to honor the Latina heritage and culture prominent at this cafe. The poem is by Victor Densmore, a poet friend and neighbor who just sat down and wrote it on the spot after i showed him the work; the poem was the completion.

Offerings to Andrew Wyeth

The paintings that Andrew Wyeth made in Cushing, Maine of the Olsen family are extraordinary. He captures the profound depth of living on earth and the spiritual mystery that accompanies it.

*Andrew Wyeth's Alvaro & Christina 1968 (2019)

4.5"x9.5"x4" // $180

*Andrew Wyeth's Christina Olsen 1947 (2019)

/ 5"x11"x5" // $200

Andrew Wyeth's Oil Lamp 1945 (2022)

5"x7"6" // $200

*Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World 1948 (2019)

12"x6"x6"// $200

Andrew Wyeth's End of Olsens 1969 (2019)

11"x7"x6" // $200

*Andrew Wyeth's Weather Side 1965 (2019)

7"x9.5"x4" / $200

offering four 2017

5"x42"x10" irreg.// $700

Homebuilding - the beaver pieces

In Vermont their are many beaver homes to ponder and admire; in the Native American cultures the beaver embodies the builder -- "beaver medicine is akin to water and earth energy, and incorporates a strong sense of family and home".