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Something Comes, 2018 12”x12” mixed media on linen went home with a new collector yesterday! Come to my Open Studio today or DM me or make a private appointment. Check out my website in bio. @artscouncilsc #contemporaryart #bayareaartist #bayareaartists #bayareaart #contemporarypainter #santacruzopenstudios #santacruzlife (at Santa Cruz, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpM9BpOh5f6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hr76uysl21ab

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Us and Them, 2018 20” x 20” mixed media on linen come to my Open Studios today and tomorrow or make a private appointment. @artscouncilsc #bayareaartist #bayareaartists #bayareaart #contemporarypainter #santacruzopenstudios #santacruzlife (at Santa Cruz, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLAv8lhnkT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rt2livth5uur

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Birth of the World, Again II, 2018 12”x 24” mixed media on wood panel. Come to my Open Studios this weekend! The many layers of this work were created at the Pacific ocean and lake Tahoe while viewing construction workers listening to the music of Michael Gandolfi #gardenifcosmicspeculation and #qawwali music, #fannafiallah and Rosh Hashana Services. (at Santa Cruz, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpIcSsKBv-V/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3mqjo6jjlsb3

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Revolving Presence, 2018 20” x 20” mixed media on linen come to my Open Studios today and next weekend. @artscouncilsc #bayareaartist #bayareaartists #bayareaart #contemporarypainter #santacruzopenstudios #santacruzlife (at Santa Cruz, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo7IknXhArr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gzefny2mso3q

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Kiss While Blind, mixed media on canvas. 60” x 48” One of many paintings that you can see at my Open Studio this weekend and next. @artscouncilsc #santacruzlife #santacruzopenstudios #mixedmediaart #bayareaart #bayareaartist (at Santa Cruz, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo1nZOdhyjv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oyrzsdc5thcn

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“Friendly” 2018 20” x 20” oil, acrylic and ink on linen. It is at the preview exhibit of the Santa Cruz open studio Art Tour opening tomorrow at @santacruzartleague @artscouncilsc https://www.instagram.com/p/BoUta-yh7P6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g63y01hpc1ju

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Come see: “ Opera in Four Trances” at my studio. Santa Cruz Open Studios, @artscouncilsc October 13,14 and 20,21. This forth one is “Immolation ”. These are based on #ringcycle by #Richardwagner I drew continually throughout the four operas at #SanFranciscoOpera @sfopera #santacruzcountyopenstudiosarttour #santacruzopenstudios https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn8-jqjBec3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eqcpxi0at1xy

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Come see: “ Opera in Four Trances” at my studio. Santa Cruz Open Studios, @artscouncilsc October 13,14 and 20,21. This forth one is “Immolation ”. These are based on #ringcycle by #Richardwagner I drew continually throughout the four operas at #SanFranciscoOpera @sfopera #santacruzcountyopenstudiosarttour #santacruzopenstudios https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn8-jqjBec3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r3dxqhfphjrn

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Come see: “ Opera in Four Trances” at my studio. Santa Cruz Open Studios, @artscouncilsc October 13,14 and 20,21. This third one is “Magic Potion”. These are based on #ringcycle by #Richardwagner I drew continually throughout the four operas at #SanFranciscoOpera @sfopera #santacruzopenstudios https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn3zhg7hW7H/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=z0zs102anf8m

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Come see: “ Opera in Four Trances” at my studio. Santa Cruz Open Studios, @artscouncilsc October 13,14 and 20,21. This second one maybe called, Eat Gold. These are based on #ringcycle by #Richardwagner I drew continually throughout the four operas at #SanFranciscoOpera @sfopera #santacruzopenstudios https://www.instagram.com/p/BnzaktfhlUs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=j7hv0unylsz2

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Come see: “ Opera in Four Trances” at Santa Cruz Open Studios, @artscouncilsc October 13,14 and 20,21. This first one is called, Premonition. These are based on #ringcycle by #Richardwagner I drew continually throughout the four operas. @sfopera #santacruzopenstudios https://www.instagram.com/p/BnwJo7WBI0P/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=idxttsuk2b10

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I want to see the beauty in admitting I’m wrong. I want to help others do this, so we can have better conversations. See theCuriousProject.org to learn about the next chapter of the Curious Scroll. This 170 foot scroll with the marks of people outside the 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions will get thicker. As we paint draw and collage, I will ask what is beautiful to you? What is ugly to you? Have you ever found the beauty and something ugly? Have you ever insisted that you are right While disagreeing with someone you love and push them away? I have and I’ve regretted it. Would it be OK if you share a strong political opinion and we disagree? Now, before the upcoming November elections the Curious Scroll and short documentary in Santa Cruz will be a powerful template for the next chapter of the Curious Scroll in swing states before the 2020 elections. Thanks to Isaiah Williams for the Scroll structure and to @artscouncilsc for the seed grant to kickstart this chapter in SantaCruz #socialpracticeart #sociallyengagedart #shortdocumentary #shortdocs #artintervention #theoppositeofhate #wereallinthistogether (at Santa Cruz, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnFyyezB5HE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hauvhioemj0x

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Through the tears

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at Wilder Beach

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Can you find the mark that expresses something from the thread of your inside guts? Can the thread respond to the terror, the fear, the hopelessness, the despair and feel love for all of it? And keep making more and more, finding a way to to live and give and make it right, even if it really feels and seems impossible? #videosketch #videojournal #sketchvideo #markmaking #threadstories

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Thank You @cabrillofestival and @cristian.macelaru !!! I can’t wait and paint and draw as I listen to you next year! (at Santa Cruz, California)

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@michaelgandolfi2010 ‘s The garden of Cosmic Speculation, part 1 @cabrillofestival conducted by @cristian.macelaru Through my water soluble pencils and crayons into diverse landscapes that can move through lifetimes. His work is on going exploration of a huge garden in Scotland. So often when I Peyton Drive in so many different locations collecting musical notes in the visual landscape, enjoying the rhythms of groups of people who have no idea that they are dancing. May ya all enjoy our growing flowering and our withering and returning. (at Santa Cruz, California)