Art & Perception

Children’s Water Dreaming 1972, 62 x 44 cm, Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi

Aborigines used Australia’s wealth in ochre colors (iron oxides) to paint their mythologies on sand, cut bark of stringybark tree and their bodies. In 1972, acrylic paints and masonite boards were made available to a few Aboriginal men congregating in a ‘painting club’. While the usage of contemporary materials served to adulterate, it also helped to popularize Australian Aboriginal art. more… »

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Finely ground black sand overlies coarser light sand at a particular location along the shore of Lake Michigan.

Rough surf paints in black sand.
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12×12 inches, maple sized with wood glue, oil

Not only am I preoccupied with water, now there are also birds. Earlier, there were ducks, here and here; now, my first raven.

oil on a maple, 12 x 12 inches

A meditating duck in the Banter Lake outside Liselotte’s cabin in Wilhelmshaven.

The color that I chose for painting water in Northern Germany differs from my usual Lake Michigan color mix. Today, it consists of Ultramarine Blue, Dioxane violet, Titanium White and Zinc White.

I paint water, June paints the desert. Do you also have a proclivity for a particular motif or theme?

Sunset, from a Dune at Lake Michigan,

What are the accompanying sounds? Below, waves splashing against the shore and all around me, happy voices articulating multilingually.

Early morning walk in Greenwich Village.

Inspired by one of my heroes, Richard Estes. Reflections, reflections, reflections…