FERTILE SOIL SERIES-2D

In viewing nature as an integral part of human existence, I see manifest the vital power of the seed as universal energy, the weed as life-force, the herb as medicine, the vine as cyclical time and creative force.

Homage to Native Corn graphite, colored pencil, red-dyed corn, thread H. 23″ W. 30″ D. 2.5″ $4500 – framed

Homage to Native Corn

graphite, colored pencil, red-dyed corn, thread

H. 23″ W. 30″ D. 2.5″

$4500 – framed

Mud Covered Corn mud-covered corn, string, graphite, arches paper H. 22″ W. 30″

Mud Covered Corn

mud-covered corn, string, graphite, arches paper

H. 22″ W. 30″

Tools For Eating dried grass clipping, graphite, paper H. 22″ W. 30″

Tools For Eating

dried grass clipping, graphite, paper

H. 22″ W. 30″

The Square graphite, thread, Arches archival paper, hay H. 14″ W. 49″ D. 2″ NFS

The Square

graphite, thread, Arches archival paper, hay

H. 14″ W. 49″ D. 2″

NFS

Thorn Branch wood, Arches archival paper, graphite, branch with thorns H. 14″ W. 49″ D. 2″ NFS

Thorn Branch

wood, Arches archival paper, graphite, branch with thorns

H. 14″ W. 49″ D. 2″

NFS

Details: Thorn Branch

Sow Corn Seed 4 Inches Apart, Thin to 6 Inches, Harvest When Silk Are Brown and Moist graphite, vellum, corn seed, garden box, soil, light, water H. 84″ W. 42″ D. 8″ $6500

Sow Corn Seed 4 Inches Apart, Thin to 6 Inches, Harvest When Silk Are Brown and Moist

graphite, vellum, corn seed, garden box, soil, light, water

H. 84″ W. 42″ D. 8″

$6500

Sow Corn Seed 4 Inches Apart, Thin to 6 Inches, Harvest When Silk Are Brown and Moist (four weeks after planting) graphite, vellum, corn seed, garden box, soil, light, water H. 84″ W. 42″ D. 8″ $6500

Sow Corn Seed 4 Inches Apart, Thin to 6 Inches, Harvest When Silk Are Brown and Moist (four weeks after planting)

graphite, vellum, corn seed, garden box, soil, light, water

H. 84″ W. 42″ D. 8″

$6500

Invitation to Planting acrylic on canvas, plastic buckets, acorns, compost, hand spade H. 72″ W. 42″ D. 18″ $6500

Invitation to Planting

acrylic on canvas, plastic buckets, acorns, compost, hand spade

H. 72″ W. 42″ D. 18″

$6500

Giant Gourd Arches archival paper, graphite, charcoal H. 30″ W. 22″ $3900 -framed

Giant Gourd

Arches archival paper, graphite, charcoal

H. 30″ W. 22″

$3900 -framed

Beak charcoal on Arches archival paper H. 30″ W. 23″ $2500 – unframed

Beak

charcoal on Arches archival paper

H. 30″ W. 23″

$2500 – unframed

Infinite Fragment III Arches archival paper, branches, thread H. 31″ W. 22.25″ D. .25″ $3900 – framed

Infinite Fragment III

Arches archival paper, branches, thread

H. 31″ W. 22.25″ D. .25″

$3900 – framed

Sow Blackeye Peas drawing on vellum, wood, grow light, seeds in soil, container H. 21″ W. 11″ D. 3.5″

Sow Blackeye Peas

drawing on vellum, wood, grow light, seeds in soil, container

H. 21″ W. 11″ D. 3.5″

Sow Peanuts drawing on vellum, wood, grow light, seeds in soil, container H. 21″ W. 11″ D. 3.5″

Sow Peanuts

drawing on vellum, wood, grow light, seeds in soil, container

H. 21″ W. 11″ D. 3.5″

Sow Potatoes drawing on vellum, wood, grow light, seeds in soil, container H. 21″ W. 11″ D. 3.5″

Sow Potatoes

drawing on vellum, wood, grow light, seeds in soil, container

H. 21″ W. 11″ D. 3.5″

Salem Milk Arches archival paper, burnt hay H. 22.25″ W. 30″ D. .75″

Salem Milk

Arches archival paper, burnt hay

H. 22.25″ W. 30″ D. .75″

NATO Night

acrylic on canvas

H. 22″ W. 30″

$6300

During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, friends there told us of the loud reverberating terror of night bombing. In the curved bottom section of the drawing are dried rose petals in memory of those who died. Yugoslavia was the only socialist that stood up to Joseph Stalin, but it was a successful model of socialism nonetheless.