capturing space...

I did this piece back when I lived in Hawaii around 2002. The plastic pink teddy bear is a vintage piggy bank and he sits peacefully in my home to this day. The silk orchid flowers have the most delicate features and I love em because orchids are so hard to grow. I hung my red skirt behind them and set them on my mother's black enamel cabinet. This painting was in my first art show at Hesham's Photography Loft.

This still life was painted a few years later in Seattle. Rob did a painting too (photo coming soon). The background is a sheet of pale green sketch paper with part of some red furniture peaking in. I set up my windup beetle and cowboy. A bottle of Polish Vodka becomes a platform suspending them in a moment. They have encountered each other and a battle is in the air. There only spectator is a vacuum attachment waiting to see what happens next.