Birds are People Too

Playing with Spiders

Miss Spider is all alone and it's a damp day. Boo hoo!

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Spider web city

The Philosophers

from the sketchbook this morning:

"IN DAYS OF YORE!
Two Philosopher Foxes pace the Egyptian plain. One studies the sky. The other studies the ground. Each other: they know not! Inevitably they collide. In their distracted states each is confirmed in his argument that this is exactly what Nature intends, ordains and requires: one bumps.

Bear Adrift

"Bear Adrift under the Moon"
collage, mixed media

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I've been exploring (or returning to) this idea of the bear adrift on the sea. In this case, it's on calm waters under a soothing full moon. Where are you headed Mr. Bear? Do you need a paddle or a sail? Maybe some birds will come and tell you about the things that you can't see beyond the horizon. Good things! Bon voyage et bonne chance!

Maybe Not a Good Idea

05-31-12
mixed media (pastel, watercolor, colored pencil, ink)

Here's a weird doodle from this morning's studio minutes - from my subconscious (take it away you armchair psychoanalysts): What's this primate doing? Is he just following his nature? Why does he persist in picking at scabs or messing with pimples? Is this an allegory about Temptation? Or is it about essentially curious human nature? Or is it all and only, always, about Sex? And why such an ornate and intricate machine? It's sole purpose seems to be for picking at sensitive and already irritated points of flesh!

Oy! Back to paying work!