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Life Stories (episode 2) My second experience with LSD and Art making
March 11, 2017 - LIFE STORIES...
My second experience with the drug LSD happened at the beginning of summer in 2016. I’m not sure if it...
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The Self Portrait Project and the Psyche...
March 08, 2016 - There are several layers to the Self. The personality, the psyche, the inner world of each our individual selves. My wor...
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The Self Portrait Project...sitting in solitude
February 12, 2016 - The Self Portrait Project
Currently living in solitude, separated from the world in many ways. Often alone except when...
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The Self Portrait Project
January 25, 2016 - Welcome to the blog for this current body of work in its development, "The Self Portrait Project". Here I will share the...
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Love in Spite of Everything... the process of a current body of expression
January 24, 2015 - Love eternal. When lovers separate, is the love over? Was love dependent on form, time and space? Was it little more tha...
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empathy from California to New York
October 03, 2014 - So here I sit, in this beautiful gallery space in Brooklyn, New York known as Succulent Studios. It is an amazing experi...
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portrait of a man in words
September 19, 2014 - This is a collaboration piece between a writer friend of mine named Lapo and myself. I've never done much collaboration...
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the yellow house and the artists...
September 12, 2014 - The second drawing presented from the recent series created during a 2 week retreat into nature is "the Artist." This pi...
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all in the name of 'love'?
September 08, 2014 - In the artist's spirit of always pushing the creative envelope, the creativity is not limited to the art itself. Or perh...
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the Retreat
September 07, 2014 - I have just returned to the city from spending the last 2 weeks on a retreat in the Sierra Nevada Valley of northern Cal...
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the struggle and the secret of the world
August 04, 2014 - This art thing is tricky. As is life, and i've come to see the art merely being the reflection of one's inner life. And...
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The spirit show opening in less than 2 weeks...
June 24, 2014 - My relationship with the art process is one of consistent self discovery. Its an exciting aspect of the practice that al...
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update on the Spirit Show...
June 20, 2014 - Its been awhile... leaving the winter of Detroit, Michigan and all its never ending snowfall I found myself on an airpla...
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the Tao, Carl Jung, and a lot of crosshatching...
April 11, 2014 - Expressions of the Tao, paying homage to the words, meanings, and spirit of the Tao Te Ching and it's author Lao Tzu. Fo...
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the spirit and the culture....
March 31, 2014 - In spiritual literature, one of the reoccurring themes is the duality of the self and the eternal, or the possibility of...
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Homage to Pema Chodron
March 28, 2014 - Its a challenge living on this earth. If you stop to look at the nature of these challenges, it can be overwhelming. Par...
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The world is yours chico..
March 24, 2014 - Inspired by the movie 'Scarface', in a scene where the main character Tony Montana, at a restaurant giving a drunken sol...
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human all too human...
March 12, 2014 - Sometime last year I was thrown into that situation where the entirety of my life had been shaken up. And when it rains,...
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searching and finding after ten years
February 28, 2014 - Upon graduating from art school around a decade ago, I began taking all that I learned up to that point in regards to th...
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the beauty of the human head
February 26, 2014 - Continuing from the previous blog post, regarding the exploration of the beauty of the grotesque... curiosity towards th...
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homages to Joseph Merrick, a.k.a 'The Elephant Man'
February 25, 2014 - For an upcoming show at Spoke Art Gallery where the theme is of tribute to David Lynch, I new upon invitation immediatel...
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the truth transforms us (message to Christopher)
February 10, 2014 - Change is rarely met without the struggle of moving forward. Change, when it occurs with anything that we place high val...
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end of one year and beginning of the next (2013 reflection)
January 28, 2014 - the end of another year, the beginning of a next. Another page added in the compilation of our life's history and ever i...
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cell therapy II...
January 24, 2014 - As mentioned in the last blog post, I have watched a number of documentaries on prisons. This reflection was inspired by...
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nature of mind reflection...
December 02, 2013 - As one teacher said, "don't mistake realization for understanding... with realization go deeper with more realization"....
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The Nature of Love
November 26, 2013 - I've experienced both sides of the coin… i've manipulated another, i've been manipulated. I controlled another, I've bee...
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the nature of everything...
October 21, 2013 - For around a year now, in my life and reflected in the art I create, the focus has been nature. Nature in the sense of u...
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paying heed to the words of Epicurus...
October 17, 2013 - A friend of mine once said, "without philosophy you're f@cked". Though a tinge crass, I hold these words true. At the be...
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primordial headpiece...
October 15, 2013 - When throwing one's self into the worldly openly, one is in a constant flow of meeting people from all spectrums. In my...
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karma policeman...
October 07, 2013 - Every now and then, I take a moment to stop and reflect... on life on living. In buddhism, one defintion of karma explai...
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the nature of heart
September 27, 2013 - inspired by Emilee. Painted on a wine crate that manifested itself as we shared dialogue from cities afar. Building some...
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the nature of music
September 20, 2013 - This piece was created for an upcoming show at Gauntlet Gallery in San Francisco where the theme is music. As my focus a...
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collaboration with artist photographer Bob Fischer
September 10, 2013 - Yesterday morning after coming fresh from a swim in the ocean and upon returning to the studio for the days painting, I...
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youth is wasted on the young- Bertrand Russell
September 09, 2013 - It is always an experience of deeper realization and reflection in working with the elders. Today I did a little paintin...
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inspired by Saint Genevieve of San Francisco...
September 06, 2013 - Firstly, I would like to open with saying that though I have not been posting lately, it is not because of lack of creat...
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The Screwtape Letters (by CS Lewis)... part 2
July 31, 2013 - So yesterday, I created a drawing of the character Wormwood, from CS Lewis' book The Screwtape Letters. The main charact...
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The Screwtape Letters (CS Lewis)
July 30, 2013 - Recently I had the joy of reading CS Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters". The basic format of the book is thru the narrative...
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coming back to life every moment, any and everywhere
July 20, 2013 - This piece was created as a point of reference where I found myself around two weeks ago. I've take a short hiatus from...
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mourning love
July 06, 2013 - In the writing of my book yesterday, I was reflecting on where i've been and where I'm at. Mentally, spiritually. In loo...
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Johnny Tapia and Eddie Alcazar
June 20, 2013 - Around 2 weeks ago, I received an email from Indy film director Eddie Alcazar. He described a project he was working on...
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youth and age
June 18, 2013 - One of the subjects for anyone that follows these writings may realize that comes up often is the work that I do with th...
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The Life Show...
June 07, 2013 - Having worked on the installation for "The Life Show" for the last week plus, I can say with confidence that this has be...
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paying homage to the elders
May 25, 2013 - For a few hours a week, for close to the last 6 years, I have had the fortunate experience to work with elderly thru a p...
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let us live
May 22, 2013 - Recent piece created for the upcoming show at Emerald Tablet Gallery in San Francisco with the opening on June 8. The pi...
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the sun and the moon...
May 08, 2013 - reflecting on the wisdom of the world... that even if the situation of the world may be of a dis-satisfactory state to p...
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letter to Daniel...
May 07, 2013 - In reflecting on the nature of suffering, the nature of love... human relationships came into question. Some of them I w...
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sentient being
April 29, 2013 - So much time spent just to end up where we first began. As children, unconditionally experiencing the world. Exploring,...
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impermenance and eternal nature...
April 23, 2013 - Most recent expression created in reflecting on the nature of mind, the nature of reality that much deeper... The refere...
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homage to Lao Tzu
April 16, 2013 - Bring the mind home. Back to its primordial state. Where it once experienced life in its constant unfolding. Moment by m...
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reflection on death as the mirror to life....
April 05, 2013 - a piece created for an upcoming group show at Gauntlet Gallery in San Francisco where the theme is "visions and reflecti...
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spiritual headpiece...
April 01, 2013 - This piece was created for an upcoming group show at ModernEden Gallery in April. The reception is April 13th, and more...
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drawing from life...
March 23, 2013 - Though I don't do it often, in regards to art my favorite practice these days is drawing my elder students from life. Th...
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flesh and spirit...
March 21, 2013 - For an upcoming show with Spoke Art Gallery based in SanFrancisco/Oakland, though the show will be in NY. The theme is f...
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imagining Greg....
March 19, 2013 - One of my practices with art is to discover how I can use it as a form of giving to the world. I will explain why so in...
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imagined headpiece with reflection....
March 18, 2013 - Much of the recent work that I have been posting, on the blog/website, Facebook is for an upcoming solo show in June at...
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art as a guide to living...
March 16, 2013 - Some practicioners of 'art' draw a line between the lives they live, and the art they create. Others don't. In regards t...
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homage to Sogyal Rinpoche
March 12, 2013 - "Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, u...
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homage to friendship
March 10, 2013 - Paying heed to friendship. Being social animals as a quality of our nature as stated by Aristotle, we go thru life accum...
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homage to Thich Naht Hanh
March 02, 2013 - Liberation and enlightenment do not exist outside of your own self. We need only open our eyes to see that we ourselves...
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thank you artists...
February 15, 2013 - Thank you artists.. for adding to the world. For creating and re-creating worlds. For making this place colorful. Thank...
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the duality of idea and reality
February 09, 2013 - The following is a sketch from time spent with Alex, a student in my art with elders class. He is tough to capture, for...
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taking the leap
February 07, 2013 - the beauty of self reflection. For so long I was terrified to look back on my life deeply, not reflecting on missed wond...
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developing the language...
January 29, 2013 - I have always been a sensitive person that internalizes constant experience as far as I can remember developing first si...
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the self...
January 28, 2013 - In the process of working on my first book, a collection of artworks expressing a concept that began in 2002, I took sev...
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the paradox of pain
January 24, 2013 - Listening to Lao Tzu's the Tao Te Ching, I have been inspired in various reflections. One of those is truth and it's par...
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vulnerability
January 23, 2013 - Though its been years, I love the art of self portraiture. I've always seen as a confrontation with the self. In art sch...
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imagined Helen bust... homage to my closest friend
January 23, 2013 - There is a place….
There is a place, for you. Like the night sky above filled with stars, yours is the nebula that expl...
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imagining buddha...
December 06, 2012 - This week I set the goal to have compassion for myself. This has led to intense mindfulness in all situations that occur...
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ego and awareness
November 24, 2012 - This piece is inspired by reflections on form and formlessness, similar to the piece created prior. However, more focuse...
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form, formless
November 16, 2012 - Recently I have been reflecting on form and formlessness. This thought is the result of what I am experiencing in my lif...
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homage to Marcus Aurelius
November 12, 2012 - I love the meditations of Marcus Aurelius. If you are interested yourself, like all else, simply google the name. I have...
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an expression of gratitude, acknowledgment, respect.
November 05, 2012 - This is dedicated to Helen Bayly, my ex-lover who I had the fortune to share the past 5 years of my life with. And to my...
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mother goddess
October 29, 2012 - This is a piece created in homage to my mother, as well as woman and the goddess archetype... all expressed as one. This...
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life/death...
October 26, 2012 - This piece is a homage to my grandparents, all four of them who have passed away by this point. The painting is of my gr...
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acceptance/denial... homage to Edgar Allan Poe's the Raven
October 24, 2012 - Accepting indefinite change is a freeing experience that leads to transformation and is in accordance with the laws of n...
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love/loss
October 21, 2012 - It hurts, but yield to the pain… process it and know that it is an operation of nature. So you loved, and now you mourn...
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thank you elders
October 20, 2012 - The world is so alive right now. My eyes are involuntarily wide open, and it is overwhelming like daydreaming on the sho...
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expressing the human experience via the human head
September 28, 2012 - Earlier in spring of this year, my partner expressed her annoyance with me while watching a movie. I had been verbally a...
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chalk art...
September 27, 2012 - As a college teacher of artistic anatomy, I began using the chalkboard as the medium to visually demonstrate lectures on...
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