More studio shots

Here are a couple more

Studio Update

Well I have had a busy summe/fall and here are some examples. The Batiks are starting to become popular so that makes me very happy. They are a challenge to do and I am learning all the time! I have also been taking classes in other media, just to keep myself sharp- watercolor with Mary Jane Stevens and oil with Larry Johnston. The business aspect of art has become a little easier with a digital camera and various programs to keep it all organized.
Looking forward to a productive winter in the studio, with a lot of ideas rolling around in my head.
Happy thanksgiving to all!

Art vs Sports

why aren't artists valued the way sports figures are? why arent artists paid millions of dollars for a year?
why are sports figures rich and artists starving? what is wrong with our society, when we undervalue culture in favor of sports? the inttectual vs the physical? why is it a battle at all? why cant they co-exist?
the dumbing -down of America continues...
kids cant add without a calculator, they text messages in broken slang and then complain about immigrants taking jobs away... it doesnt make sense
what are they teaching in schools and what kind of society is being created?
it comes down to this:
the average Joe doesnt have time to think about the things that matter because he(she) is too busy trying to make ends meet.
This is just what Big Governemt wants..... to take the power away from the people
if there is power in numbers, lets take the numbers away-- isolate the wage earner, the voter, the people who THINK...
create a society that is so wrapped up in the material things, in the NOW, in the ME generation, that the big picture is so obscured that values are destroyed,,,, manipulated,,,,by the soound byte, the pop culture, the media....
the people who supposedly are the backbone of our Constitution, have not got the time to be concerned, much less do anything about any situation, it snowballs into power of the few not power of the people.....
the few then control the thoughts of the many by media, pop culture, news, TV-- if You think Propaganda only exists "over there" think again. Big Brother lives and breathes.......

think about other sources for your news: public radio- college radio, PBS even the BBC news- give a different perspective on US.... we need to see other points of view. How the rest of the world sees us
stop hegemony now!
you may want to start by listening to
democracy NOW 90,1 WUSB www.wusb.fm www. democracynow.org