Lightness of Being bronze They still live in villages

They still live in villages that cling to the six hundred foot high escarpments of three rocky mesas rising abruptly out of the desert plains of northern Arizona

that what drew me to the concept was the subconscious desire to portray this attribute

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The logistics in the cold are challenging and then the execution of the idea requires precision as I want to see as many faces as possible and I want those faces to have a collective attitude

Lightness of Being bronze They still live in villages24" x 24", Mixed Media "My painted work is based on the use of mixed media (acrylic, oil, powdered pigments, charcoal, chalk pastel, oil pastel) applied in an expressionistic and fragmented fashion, aka disrupted realism. While this approach lets me explore my emotional response to my subjects, it also requires an intense and wordless conversation. Because each piece is a mini adventure, my failure rate can be frustrating at timesbut the successes are