The Garden Series
These works were all done as homages to people who have influenced me in some way. Some are authors, musicians, or other artists whose works have given me some sort of positive energy. The works represent what I imagine their back gardens would be like . . . metaphorically of course. They are presented in no particular order, but beginning in the upper left they are for musician Bob Wills, iconoclastic musicians Tom Waits, Raymond Scott, & Sun Ra, jazz musician Red Norvo, author Larry Niven, comic Jon Stewart, artist Juhani Jarvinen, jazz singer/musician Nina Simone, author Thorne Smith, jazz singer Billie Holiday, the collective acting cast of Deadwood, author Ray Bradbury, artist Jean-Erik Kullberg, author Loren Eiseley, Anonymous (arists/musicians/authors), artist Bill Dinnesuk, blues singer Bessie Smith, author Kurt Vonnegut, jazz musican Pee Wee Russell, artist Wilhelm De Kooning, songwriter/singer/musician Charles Trenet, author William Gibson, artist Dan Henderson, dancers Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and artist Bill Knight.
The series is ongoing and the works usually only acquire an identity after they are partially or fully done — when I come to realize whose garden is metaphorically being represented. Although each of the garden series is an homage, not all of my homages are in the form of metaphorical gardens.
